The Vatican saw 1,300 misdemeanor crimes committed last year, propelling that state to the top of the global per-capita statistics. 527 persons live in the Vatican, but some 18 million people visited the territory located in Rome last year.
Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
Ivanović to EULEX: Priština is hotbed of crime
January 5th, 2011 |
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An official of the Ministry for Kosovo has reacted to the news that EULEX has a “special unit” to fight crime in northern, Serb areas of Kosovo. State Secretary Oliver Ivanović said on Wednesday that it was PriÅ¡tina that was a hotbed of organized crime and corruption, and that the EU mission in the province “should pay attention to that fact”.
Facebook crime rises by ‘540pc in 3yrs in UK’
December 14th, 2010 |
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Police chiefs have reported that crimes linked to Facebook have reached more than 100,000 across Britain in the last five years. Police chiefs in 16 forces made the revelation, claiming that 7,545 calls from the public since January were concerned with the social networking site. Callers have alerted officers to alleged acts of terrorism, sudden [...]
EULEX chief: Priority to combat crime, corruption
December 11th, 2010 |
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EULEX Head Xavier Bout de Marnhac told Belgrade-based daily Politika on Saturday that his priority was combat against crime and corruption in Kosovo.
“These are the two biggest problems that Kosovo is facing and which affect all communities, but if we want to make serious progress, EULEX needs the support of local institutions,†de Marnhac stressed.
Russia branded “mafia state” in cables
December 2nd, 2010 |
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Russia has become a virtual “mafia state” with widespread corruption, bribery and protection rackets, fresh diplomatic cables on Wikileaks allege. There was no differentiation between government and organised crime, one Spanish prosecutor investigating crime links says.
“Leading Kosovo crime figure” calls Ireland home
November 26th, 2010 |
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A leading figure in Kosovo’s organized crime world is living in Ireland, writes The Irish Times this Friday. The man is named as 37-year-old ethnic Albanian Enver Sekiraqa, and described as “the boss of bosses”, who is on Interpol’s most wanted list on suspicion that he committed crimes that include “murder of a policeman in PriÅ¡tina”.
President Tadić visits Montenegro
November 19th, 2010 |
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Serbian President Boris Tadić and Montenegrin counterpart Filip Vujanović say the two countries have achieved significant results in fighting organized crime.
Vujanović told a joint news conference after the meeting that the agreement on extradition signed recently between the two countries shows their willingness to uncompromisingly crackdown on organized crime.
Policing: The aftershocks of crime
October 21st, 2010 |
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An idea borrowed from seismology may help to predict criminal activity
LOS ANGELES is one of the most under-policed cities in America. With a mere 26 officers for every 10,000 residents (Chicago, by comparison, has 46), the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) needs all the help it can get.
That help may be at hand, with a modification of technology used to predict another type of threat that the city is prone to: the aftershocks from earthquakes. Big earthquakes are unpredictable. Once they have happened, however, they are usually followed by further tremors, and the pattern of these is tractable. …
“Links probed between hooligans, organized crime”
October 19th, 2010 |
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The connection between the hooligans and extreme fan groups and the organized crime are going to be investigated, said Prosecutor for organized crime. “First and foremost, we have to determine who provides the funding and to what end to these thugs, whose behavior is very similar to that of street gangs,” said the Prosecutor Miljko Radisavljević.
Kosovo Ministry official on enclave crime
August 13th, 2010 |
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Kosovo Ministry official Oliver Ivanović has criticized the international community on the anniversary of the murder of two Serb boys in Kosovo. Ivanović says he was disappointed that seven years after the murders in the Serb enclave of Goraždevac there was “clearly an unrealistic perception that the international community can and wants to do everything to bring law and order to Kosovo and Metohija”.
10 Most Bizarre Scams (That Actually Worked)
August 12th, 2010 |
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Here are 10 of the most unbelievable con tricks ever attempted!
French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy “CSI†Guest Appearance
August 9th, 2010 |
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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been offered a bit role on the forensic crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation after confessing her love for the crime drama in a letter to its producers.The former model wrote CSI producers praising them for their work on the program, which prompted them to ask her to star in an upcoming [...]
“Polish plane crash was crime”
July 21st, 2010 |
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The plane crash in which Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others died was a crime. This is according to the head of a Polish committee investigating the crash, who was quoted by Polish Radio on Tuesday, RIA Novosti reported.
15 More Celebrities Who Got Away With It
July 12th, 2010 |
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It’s no secret that celebrities get special treatment. Stars are notorious for getting a wink and a smile from police offers for offenses which would earn the rest of us a baton to the back of the head.
Greece: Supermarket hijackers arrested
July 12th, 2010 |
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Police in Greece said they have broken up one of the best organized crime groups that operated in the wider area of Athens. Four Albanians, whose identities have not been revealed, are now behind bars on suspicion that they took some EUR 1.25mn in 26 hijackings of vehicles that transported money from supermarkets.
Croat, Montenegrin presidents meet
July 2nd, 2010 |
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Montenegrin President Filip Vujanović says his country wants an agreement with Croatia and Serbia on the extradition of organized crime and corruption suspects.
“Our interest is to be allies to the end in the fight against organized crime and corruption, where state borders must not represent protection,” Vujanović told reporters in Cetinje, after a meeting with Croatian President Ivo Josipović.
McGruff The Crime Dog Turns 30
July 1st, 2010 |
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It’s a very big birthday for America’s top crimefighting canine. McGruff the Crime Dog took a bite out of birthday cake on Thursday. The star of a series of ad campaigns encouraging kids to “Take a Bite out of Crime†celebrated the Big 3-0 today.“As we celebrate McGruff’s birthday, and wish him many more productive years, [...]
Corporate crime: Not guilty?
July 1st, 2010 |
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The Supreme Court favours three jailed bosses in a crop of pro-business rulings
THREE of America’s most notorious former company bosses received good news as the Supreme Court issued its final rulings before the summer recess. On June 24th Jeffrey Skilling, the former chief executive of Enron, and Conrad Black, the former boss of the Hollinger media empire, heard that the court had upheld their appeals against their convictions for failing to provide “honest services” to the shareholders of their firms. Then on June 29th, in the light of its ruling in the Skilling case, the Supreme Court ordered a lower court to review its conviction of Richard Scrushy, once the boss of HealthSouth, along with Don Siegelman, an ex-governor of Alabama who was initially judged to have been bribed by Mr Scrushy.
These rulings will confirm the Supreme Court’s reputation as being increasingly sympathetic to big business interests, by striking down what had been a successful new prosecutorial strategy for jailing bosses of firms caught up in scandals. So will two other rulings just released by the court, one striking down part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which is loathed by many company bosses (see Schumpeter), and another upholding the legality of so-called business-method patents—though in each of these cases, the rulings were actually rather narrow and technical. …
“Crime groups, separatists main threat”
June 30th, 2010 |
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Interior Minister Ivica DaÄić said that there were 27 registered organized crime groups at the end of 2009 in Serbia. He said that these crime groups have more than 200 members and that most sell and smuggle drugs.
Singapore gambles low crime rate with casino push
June 23rd, 2010 |
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Singapore’s casinos have attracted more than three million visitors, created thousands of jobs and spurred spending at hotels, restaurants and shopping malls. They’re also keeping the courts busy.
Since the opening of Resorts World Sentosa in February and Marina Bay Sands in April, the island-state has seen cases of fraud, embezzlement and identity theft. Some offenders were fined or sent to prison, three European suspects have jumped bail and two Africans have been charged for cheating the casinos out of about $140,000.