'Drug lord' gets bail

'Drug lord' gets bail: "ALLEGED drug lord Hakan Ayik - one of Australia's most wanted men - has been granted bail by a Turkish Cyprus court despite fleeing capture there before. Ayik is alleged to be the co-ordinator of a drugs syndicate stretching across several countries and involving...

Dubai Police bust international drug gang - Emirates24|7

Dubai Police bust international drug gang - Emirates24|7: "Dubai Police bust an international drug smuggling gang of five people and confiscated about 60 kilograms of drugs worth Dh600,000. The general department of Anti-Narcotics, Dubai Police, arrested two members of the gang, both GCC nationals, and alerted Interpol to arrest the others, believed to be Asians. Major-General Abdul Jalil Mahdhi Al Asmawi, Director-General, Department of Anti-Narcotics,...

Christopher 'Dudus' Coke was widely regarded as the most powerful man in Jamaica.

What happened next? Jamaican crime and corruption | Life and style | The Guardian: "Just a few months ago, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke was widely regarded as the most powerful man in Jamaica. The leader of the Shower Posse gang, he was said to own whole neighbourhoods, politicians and perhaps even their parties through his extensive crime organisation built around drug trafficking. So when the government moved to extradite him to the US in May, after...

Chelsea Accountant Allegedly Stole $1.5 Million From 'Law and Order' Actress - DNAinfo.com

Chelsea Accountant Allegedly Stole $1.5 Million From 'Law and Order' Actress - DNAinfo.com: "An accountant who allegedly invested in 'Spring Awakening' and the 'Legally Blonde' musical with stolen funds was indicted on charges he allegedly stole almost $1.5 million from a 'Law and Order' actress who was his client, prosecutors said Thursday. Joseph Cilibrasi, 50, routinely stole from Tamara Tunie, prosecutors said, who plays a medical examiner on...

Ohio fraud fugitive ordered to serve 25 years - BusinessWeek

Ohio fraud fugitive ordered to serve 25 years - BusinessWeek: "federal judge in Ohio has ordered a woman to start serving a 25-year prison sentence interrupted after she fled the country following her corporate fraud conviction. A jury convicted 62-year-old Rebecca Parrett in 2008 for her role in a $1.9 billion health care financing fraud at National Century Financial Enterprises. She was arrested in Mexico in October. U.S. District Court Judge...

TV Apprentice hopeful Christopher Farrell pleads guilty to fraud - mirror.co.uk

TV Apprentice hopeful Christopher Farrell pleads guilty to fraud - mirror.co.uk: "CONTESTANT on this year’s Apprentice admitted fraud charges yesterday. Former Royal Marine Christopher Farrell, 29, falsified mortgage applications to banks and building societies by inflating his...

Fujian gang leader Liu Xiaohua gets death for fatal gunfight in Shanghai - What's On Xiamen

Fujian gang leader Liu Xiaohua gets death for fatal gunfight in Shanghai - What's On Xiamen: "THREE gang members were sentenced to death Friday for their roles in a fatal Shanghai gunfight stirred up by a female drug dealer in May 2009. Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced a total of 11 members from two gangs. Two gang members were killed and two others were injured in the gunfight in Putuo District. Liu Xiaohua, boss of the Fujian...

Police in three countries take on 'Frankfurt Mafia' drug ring | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 24.12.2010

Police in three countries take on 'Frankfurt Mafia' drug ring | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 24.12.2010: "joint operation involving Austrian, German and Macedonian police this week broke up a major drug ring in Central and Eastern Europe, resulting in dozens of arrests. Authorities in Vienna on Thursday said police in Austria and Macedonia had conducted coordinated raids on Wednesday and arrested 29 people suspected of being gang ring-leaders. They...

Police in three countries take on 'Frankfurt Mafia' drug ring | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 24.12.2010

Police in three countries take on 'Frankfurt Mafia' drug ring | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 24.12.2010 :Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright hold...

Mexican Killers Often Use US Guns | Americas | English

VOA | Officials: Mexican Killers Often Use US Guns | Americas | English: "In Mexico, violence related to drug smuggling has claimed around 30,000 lives in recent years and many Mexicans are wondering if President Felipe Calderon's war on the criminal gangs is succeeding. The United...

Brazil busts gang of cops, councillors

Brazil busts gang of cops, councillors: "Brazilian police have busted a feared criminal gang that killed at least 50 people and counted more than a dozen officers and some municipal councillors in its ranks, officials said yesterday. Twenty-five members of the 34-strong gang were...

Medich bailed in 'not strong' murder case

Medich bailed in 'not strong' murder case: "prosecution case against murder-accused Ron Medich is 'not strong' according to a Supreme Court justice who granted the Sydney property tycoon $1 million bail. The 62-year-old is charged with murdering and soliciting the murder of businessman Michael McGurk, who was shot dead outside his Cremorne home on Sydney's lower north shore in September 2009. Prosecutors allege Medich paid $300,000 for the hit on...

Fined record $47 million for fraud

Burnaby NewsLeader - Fined record $47 million for fraud: "Surrey resident who stole nearly $16 million from investors by promising them a 60 per cent profit has been fined the full amount he stole plus a $31 million penalty. At $47 million, the total penalty is the largest ever assessed by the BCSC. Con artist Sung Wan (Sean) Kim is unlikely to ever pay any part of it. Kim reportedly fled back to his native Korea after the B.C. Securities Commission...

Former MP facing fraud charges - crime - national | Stuff.co.nz

Former MP facing fraud charges - crime - national Stuff.co.nz: "former MP facing fraud charges involving nearly $2 million will find out next week whether he can keep secret his identity. The man is one of four people due to stand trial next year. In Auckland District Court court today a judge reserved his decision on an application on behalf of the ex-MP for continued name suppression until next week. The Serious Fraud Office alleged the four were...

Primary Global Research caught in federal probe

Primary Global Research caught in federal probe: "Primary Global Research, the Mountain View 'expert network' company, which already is caught up in a nationwide insider trading investigation. One of the firm's top sales executives was arrested Thursday by the FBI on wire fraud and conspiracy charges. Three of its former 'consultants' were also arrested. A fourth former consultant, it was announced, has pleaded guilty to similar charges. Following...

Joel Bondy, N.Y.C. Payroll Office Chief, Is Suspended - NYTimes.com

Joel Bondy, N.Y.C. Payroll Office Chief, Is Suspended - NYTimes.com: "The official in charge of the New York City agency at the heart of an alleged $80 million information technology fraud scheme was suspended on Thursday without pay by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Comptroller John C. Liu. The official, Joel Bondy, was chosen by Mr. Bloomberg to be the executive director of the Office of Payroll Administration in April 2004. But the payroll agency...

Starr's lawyer charged with money laundering | Reuters

Starr's lawyer charged with money laundering Reuters: "Lawyer Jonathan Star Bristol allegedly used attorney escrow accounts to launder more than $20 million that Starr took from advisory clients, prosecutors in the Southern District of New York said in a 15-page indictment charging Bristol with one count of money laundering. Bristol 'repeatedly used the escrow accounts to help Kenneth Starr conceal that he was stealing client monies to fund the operating...

Eight arrested over suspected links to youth wing of ETA - Telegraph

Eight arrested over suspected links to youth wing of ETA - Telegraph: "200 national police officers took part in raids in the northern Spanish cities of Bilbao, Pamplona and Vitoria resulting in the arrests of six suspected leaders of the banned youth organisation SEGI. They also detained two lawyers from the same practice – one in the Canary Island of Lanzarote and the other in Aranjuez, a town south of Madrid – who investigators said had “advised...