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- Bolivian Indians Loosen the Chains 3 Jan 2010 16:12 GMT
... Bolivian President Evo Morales at a ceremony last year ... main criteria for confiscation — obtained by fraud and serving no “social or economic purpose.” ... new experiment born in Europe,” because German, Swiss and Spanish NGOs have been behind much of ...
- 'Wikileaks' website down until additional funds are secured 3 Jan 2010 15:21 GMT
... Wikileaks.org, the website devoted to providing a place ... received hundreds of thousands of pages from corrupt banks, the US detainee system, the Iraq ... December 2007, and documents related to the Swiss bank Julius Baer which resulted in Wikileaks ...
- Weird travel stories 3 Jan 2010 14:50 GMT
... The fuel surcharge, of course, is extra: Lydia Alcock, 18, ... supplementing their meager wages by accepting $2 bribes from visitors who wanted to get into ... City Airport in February, a pilot with Swiss International Airlines took exception when he was asked ...
- "60 Minutes" Preview: A Crack in the Swiss Vault 3 Jan 2010 14:32 GMT
... Bradley Birkenfeld, perhaps the first Swiss banker ever to speak publicly about the famously ... ET/PT. "I gave them the biggest tax fraud case in the world. I exposed 19,000 ... but is a fugitive from justice in Switzerland. Martin Liechti, a Swiss citizen who was ...
- Advocates question detention 3 Jan 2010 13:43 GMT
... Indonesian human rights advocates are questioning an Australian businessman's ... 17-month detention in a Jakarta cell on fraud charges. Robert James McNeice, 43, says his ... of $270,000 in a deal to buy Swiss watches. Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights has ...
- France hails success in rooting out tax cheats 3 Jan 2010 13:43 GMT
... names appeared on data stolen from a Swiss branch of bank HSBC have contacted authorities to ... Budget Minister Eric Woerth said on Sunday. Switzerland protested strongly about the use of the ... But he added the campaign against fiscal fraud would carry on unabated in 2010. ($1=.6973 ...
- Top 10 financial scandals of the year 3 Jan 2010 12:44 GMT
... breathtaking $65 billion Ponzi scheme. While the fraud came to light in 2008, Madoff was ... including IBM. UBS & TAXES: In February, Swiss banking giant UBS agreed to pay $780 million ... of secret UBS accounts, opening cracks in Switzerland's bank secrecy laws. * In June, billionaire ...
- French bakery offers future to Afghan minority children 3 Jan 2010 07:13 GMT
... French bakery offers future to Afghan minority children Boys ... having first worked in Kabul for a Swiss non-governmental organisation in 2000, while the brutal ... Transparency International as the world's second most corrupt, after Somalia. Unlike many foreigners with businesses ...
- French bakery offers hope to Afghan children 3 Jan 2010 06:53 GMT
... KABUL (AFP) – On the wall of Le Pelican ... having first worked in Kabul for a Swiss non-governmental organisation in 2000, while the brutal ... international watchdog as the world's second most corrupt, after Somalia. Unlike many foreigners with businesses ...
- Bolivia's Indians see rocky exodus from serfdom 3 Jan 2010 06:30 GMT
... Published Sunday, January 03, 2010 12:05 AM Bolivia's Indians ... main criteria for confiscation -- obtained by fraud and serving no "social or economic purpose." ... new experiment born in Europe," because German, Swiss and Spanish non-governmental organizations have helped the Guarani. ...
- A Crack In The Swiss Vault 3 Jan 2010 05:13 GMT
... Bradley Birkenfeld, perhaps the first Swiss banker ever to speak publicly about the famously ... ET/PT. "I gave them the biggest tax fraud case in the world. I exposed 19,000 ... but is a fugitive from justice in Switzerland. Martin Liechti, a Swiss citizen who was ...
- MediaCoder 0.7.2 Build 4585 3 Jan 2010 04:30 GMT
... MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which ... new devices. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all ... * Strong decoding capability for partial or corrupted contents * Simplified UI for popular mobile ...
- ... ' they are seen as corrupt, lazy, incompetent and impolite by the citizenry' 3 Jan 2010 02:52 GMT
... quoting the citizenry in seeing them as ’corrupt, lazy, incompetent and impolite’. The report, dated ... December 31, 2009, Small Arms Survey of Switzerland said these undesirable traits were ’hearsay’ based ... or shakedown citizens (including law-abiding ones) for bribes.’ The faint light on the horizon, according ...
- GUNS HERE TO STAY 3 Jan 2010 02:52 GMT
... 31, 2009, the Small Arms Survey of Switzerland explored the rise of criminal gangs and ... a grim picture of a wealthy but corrupt, segregated and generally island nation that appears ... in 1999 and is supported by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairsn while being ...
- International agency rates local cops poorly 3 Jan 2010 02:52 GMT
... quoting the citizenry in seeing them as ’corrupt, lazy, incompetent and impolite’. The report, dated ... December 31, 2009, Small Arms Survey of Switzerland said these undesirable traits were ’hearsay’ based ... or shakedown citizens (including law-abiding ones) for bribes.’ The faint light on the horizon, according ...
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