Asian Lite News Archive

Category: Crime

  • WHO KILLED MOHSIN SHAIKH? WHY?

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    Bikram Vohra questions the killing of an innocent youth in Pune over a social media prank Who gave these people the permission to be the conscience of the nation? Just because some idiot morphed pictures of Hindu right group RSS leader Bal Thackeray on the Net you cannot turn into cold blooded killers and justify your…

  • Sahara chief to remain in jail

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    Sahara group chief Subrata Roy will remain in jail even as the Supreme Court Wednesday lifted the freeze on the group’s moveable and immovable assets so it could raise Rs.10,000 crore for part repayment of investors money collected by two group companies. A bench of Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice A.K. Sikri however said the…

  • UN condemns UP gang rape & murder

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    The United Nations Monday condemned the gang rape and murder of two girls in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district and called for immediate action against the perpetrators and to address violence against women across India. “There should be justice for the families of the two teenaged girls and for all the women and girls from lower…

  • SC stays execution of Yakub Memon

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    The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the centre on a petition by 1993 Mumbai bomb blast accused Yakub Abdul Razak Memon challenging the apex court’s rules guiding its review of a death sentence. The apex court bench of Justice J.S. Kehar and Justice C. Nagappan also suspended the execution of death sentence of Memon.…

  • Pele son gets 33 years in jail

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    The son of the Brazilian football legend Pele has been sentenced to 33 years in jail for laundering money raised from drug trafficking, BBC reported. Edinho is a retired footballer who played goalkeeper for Pele’s old club, Santos, in the 1990s. He was first arrested in 2005 and has served a sentence for drug trafficking…

  • Amway CEO arrested and jailed

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    Amway India managing director and CEO William S. Pinckney, arrested by police from Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool district, was Thursday taken into custody by a police team from Khammam district where a court then sent him to jail for 14 days. Pinckney was later shifted to Warangal central jail. Earlier, the head of the direct-selling firm…

  • HMRC gains revenue from tax dodgers

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    New figures published today show that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) secured a record £23.9 billion in additional tax revenue over the last year as a result of increased activity to make sure people pay the taxes they owe. The additional tax – which HMRC secures as a result of investigations, on top of the…

  • Money bureau boss jailed for laundering

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        A bureaux de change owner and two of his employees have been jailed for laundering over £100 million of criminal cash through his business. Thillianathan Kumarathas and Ramanathan Thayaparan recruited mutual friend, Dinesh Kumar Anandan, to help launder dirty money through Kumarathas’s two bureaux in Victoria, London. The men would receive the “dirty”…

  • Iran hangs tycoon for fraud

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    Mahafarid Amir Khosravi, also known as Amir Mansour Aria, a billionaire businessman at the heart of a $2.6 billion state bank scam, was executed on Saturday, Iranian state television reported. Authorities put Khosravi to death at Evin prison, just north of the capital, Tehran, the station reported. The report said the execution came after Iran’s…

  • Mayhem in California

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    A Hollywood filmmaker believes his son carried out drive-by shootings that killed six people in California late on Friday, a family lawyer says, BBC reported. Peter Rodger, who was assistant director on The Hunger Games, thinks the attacker was his 22-year-old son Elliot, the statement said. The gunman died of bullet wounds after going on…

  • Mobile banking apps a hacker’s paradise

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    fund transfers or bill payments via mobile banking as you think two-step authentication process is secure? This may not be the case. A mobile security expert here has shown how a banking app can be hacked using free internet tools. To prove the point, Winston Bond from Maryland-based mobile security firm Arxan Technologies set up…

  • Courier fraud in Britain

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    Barnet officers are appealing for information following a courier fraud at Squires Lane, N3 in the evening of early April. On the evening of Thursday, 3 April a woman was at her home address when she received a call from a man pretending to be PC Mason from Paddington Police station. The bogus officer said that the…

  • Nigerian scam gets a Vatican touch!

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    You have heard about the Nigerian scam, but now here’s one with a touch of the Vatican to it. A Roman Catholic priest Fr. Cruz Fernandes, attached to the church of Navelim village, located 40 km from Panaji, has complained that he was cheated by a ‘priest’ from Vatican City in Rome to the tune…

  • Lanka urged to launch probe

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    The Sri Lankan government should comply with the March 2014 UN Human Rights Council resolution creating an international investigation into allegations of serious abuses by both sides during the civil war, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. The resolution calls on the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate violations of the…

  • Conmen used Dubai link for VAT fraud

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    Kaliph Anaz reports on the imprisonment of three British men who claimed to hold a contract from Dubai Tourism to due British Tax Authrorities Three men who conned several UK companies by pretending they had £15 million to spend to promote tourism in Dubai have been jailed for more than 14 years, after attempting to…

  • France to host summit on Boko Haram

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    France is to host a security summit on the threat from Boko Haram Islamists, after they abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria in April, BBC reported. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and other West African leaders will attend the talks in Paris. On Friday Mr Jonathan was due to visit the north-eastern town of Chibok,…