"You want to know how banks are being pressured by the government to dole out people’s savings to save stock brokers in KSE? Read this inside story. By FARAH PAKIWALA Monday, 10 November 2008. KARACHI, Pakistan—We appreciate FIA’s efforts against KKI and other...
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" The life of a high-level mobster is a staple of books and Hollywood films. But most real-life gang leaders don't tell their stories. The code of silence runs deep; breaking that code can be fatal. That's...
The world's largest hotel chain has fallen victim to a hacker, amd as a result as many as eight million people's identity information could be at risk."Up to eight million people are at risk of ID fraud after a...
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As a way to control street crime and giver citizen a better perception on security, Italian Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government sent the army across the country. The opposition cried it is a militarisation of...
Extortion is a crime you don’t hear about very often. A crime that drums up images of men with slicked hair, Armani suits and chuffer driven limousine but as the FBI has virtual eradicated the "mafia", extortion...
One of Italy's most notorious Mafia bosses of its Naples clan has been arrested today whilst out shopping. Adriano Graziano is said to be responsible for the ambush that killed a rival clan member's mother and...
"MrBabyMan hates the idea, the Digg top 100 surely hates the idea and the Digg Mafia REALLY hates the idea. Let me go on record right now saying that I LOVE the idea, especially if Microsoft aquires Digg and uses Digg to finally become a viable search engine. Microsoft you...
"A gaudy neo-classical mansion, Ferraris and Bentleys in the drive, a painting by Salvador Dalí on the wall and royalty for neighbours. Welcome to the world of Gennadios Petrov, the alleged Mr Big of the Russian...
Naples has its own mafia - the Camorra - this article shows how their grasp reaches out into all areas of Neopolitan life, not just drugs and sleaze but the trash collection too.
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Were it not for the fact that he...
I'm admittedly not the biggest tennis fan in the world, but I had no idea corruption in the sport was even an issue. I always just assumed all the grunting was for real."LONDON (AP) -- An independent panel concluded...
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"Detectives in Moscow yesterday confirmed they have arrested Russia's most notorious mafia boss, who is wanted by both the US and British authorities for his alleged involvement in decades of major international crime."
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Robert at Infoworld is absolutely right about CES. There wasn't anything that was truly exciting and new. There was incremental improvement in fidelity, size, speed and usability in many new devices but...
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"Earlier, chairman of the People`s Consultative Assembly (MPR) Hidayat Nurwahid deplored the fact in this country that the trial of logger Adelin Lis, who had caused the state to suffer big losses, was later acquitted of all charges leveled against him.
According to him,...
""I am very sad to learn that the suspect of illegal logging later walked out free from the court," he said.
Lately a rumour was developing in the community that the authorities and law enforcers had been dictated by a ring of judicial mafia and therefore all the relevant...
"Italian police have found what they say is a "Ten Commandments"-style code of behaviour for Mafia members, at the hideout of a captured Mafia boss.
Prohibitions include frequenting bars and looking at friends' wives, while members are urged to treat their own wives with...
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