Euro cop tells how eastern European gangsters, direct links to drugs sources and hi-tech fraud are changing face of crime in Scotland - The Daily Record

Euro cop tells how eastern European gangsters, direct links to drugs sources and hi-tech fraud are changing face of crime in Scotland - The Daily Record: "DAVID WILSON was surrounded by Dutch cops as he began his first Europol briefing.
It was July 2006 and the subject was Scotland's Most Wanted - Jamie Stevenson.
The net was closing on the Iceman and the detective sergeant was preparing the ground for a European arrest warrant to be issued.
Wilson said: 'After we took £400,000 off Stevenson's associates, he fled to Holland where he remained for three to four months.
'The purpose of my briefing was to make arrangements for his arrest.
'We had been working with the Dutch and Spanish from the early days of Operation Folklore and this was the endgame.'
Two months later, Stevenson was arrested at his home in Burnside.
But as cops swooped in Glasgow, Wilson was in Amsterdam to observe the gangster's rented flat being searched by Dutch police.
Folklore, which also nailed John 'Piddy' Gorman, was the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency's most successful operation."

Report: Iran execution halted - CNN.com

Report: Iran execution halted - CNN.com: "lawyer for a Kurdish-Iranian law student who was scheduled to be executed Sunday says the sentence has been halted, pending an investigation of what his legal team says are irregularities in the case, the semi-official Iran Students' News Agency reported.
Official state media was silent on the matter.
Human rights organizations had appealed to Iranian authorities to call off the execution of Habibollah Latifi, who is charged with security-related crimes.
'We are urgently appealing to the Iranian authorities to show clemency, halt the imminent execution of Habibollah Latifi, and commute his death sentence,' Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International's director for the Middle East and North Africa, said Saturday.
Latifi is one of at least 16 Kurds facing execution on various national security-related charges, including moharebeh -- which translates to 'enmity against God' -- according to published reports."

Dutch arrest 12 on suspicion of terrorism - CNN.com

Dutch arrest 12 on suspicion of terrorism - CNN.com: "Dutch authorities have arrested 12 men of Somali origin they believe were about to carry out a terrorist attack, authorities said Saturday.
The country's intelligence service provided information that led to the arrests in Rotterdam, Public Prosecution Service spokesman Wim de Bruin told CNN.
No weapons or explosives were found, he said. The suspects are in police custody."

Pakistan suicide bomber was woman covered in burqa | Reuters

Pakistan suicide bomber was woman covered in burqa | Reuters: "woman covered in a head-to-foot burqa carried out a suicide bombing that killed more than 40 people in Pakistan, government officials said on Sunday, adding to security challenges confronting the U.S. ally.

Any increased use of women as bombers may complicate efforts by Pakistani security forces to stem a spreading wave of Islamist suicide attacks because it is harder to spot and search burqa-clad attackers in conservative tribal society.

Saturday's bombing illustrated the resilient ability of militants to stage attacks despite army offensives against them.

The woman blew herself amid a crowd of men, women and children heading toward a food distribution center of the World Food Program in the Bajaur region on the Afghan border."

Ivory Coast warns of civil war

BBC News - Ivory Coast warns of civil war: "Foreign intervention to oust Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo could ignite a civil war, a spokesman for the president has warned.

West African leaders have warned of military action if Mr Gbagbo refuses to hand power to rival Alassane Ouattara.

But Ahoua Don Mello said such a move could spark an 'interior war' due to foreign workers living in the country, AFP reports.

Mr Gbagbo has refused to step aside following November's disputed election."

Husband of Kannada actress Manjula arrested | Frontier India - News, Analysis, Opinion

Husband of Kannada actress Manjula arrested | Frontier India - News, Analysis, Opinion: "Yogesh, the husband of murdered Kannada actress Manjula, has been arrested along with four other people. As per police, the actress was contract killed by her husband for as she was allegedly having an an extra-marital affair. Yogesh had allegedly paid Rs 6 lakh to four contract killers. The killers had taken her to Magadi on July 7 and strangled her to death. The killers later buried her body.

Yogesh had filed a police complaint of missing person for Manjula. Police recovered the decomposed body of the actress on Sunday after investigations. The police caught up with the four contract killers and eventually to Yogesh.

She had married Yogesh in 2007 after a divorce from her first husband. She has two children. Yogesh was an heavy drinker and Manjula drifted into an an extra-marital affair."

Woman held for hiring killers to murder husband - Hindustan Times

Woman held for hiring killers to murder husband - Hindustan Times: "37-year-old woman allegedly got her husband murdered through contract killing with the help of her paramour and dumped his body in Mankhurd creek. The police arrested Shaila Khan, 37, along with Kamruddin Ansari, 27-year-old auto rickshaw driver with whom she had an extra-marital affair, said


Mankhurd police.
Shaila and Ansari decided to get rid of Qasim alias Billoo Khan, 55. Police sub inspector PN Salunkhe said,“Khan allegedly tried to have sexual intercourse with Shaila’s 18-year-old daughter from a previous marriage on several occasions.”"

Not all Colombian contract killers are spotty teenagers - Colombia news | Colombia Reports

Not all Colombian contract killers are spotty teenagers - Colombia news | Colombia Reports: "report in Colombian tabloid El Espacio proved that not all the country's contract killers are spotty teenagers, but that some are attractive women.

According to the newspaper, a 'beautiful woman with blonde hair' assassinated a 20-year-old man in the northern town of Monteria on Wednesday.

The woman arrived on a motorbike, accompanied by a second, and without saying a single word, shot the victim until he was dead.

Following the incident, the 'sexy Monteria killer' disappeared without a trace."

Man hired contract killers to get father murdered: Cops

Man hired contract killers to get father murdered: Cops: "Crime Branch officials have arrested five persons for allegedly murdering a spice trader in 2008. Police said the victim Jai Bhagwan Gupta’s son had plotted the murder.

Identifying the son as Nikesh Gupta (29), the police said that the spice trader was shot dead while he was on a morning walk in Priyadarshani Vihar.

The incident had come to light on January 11, 2008, when Nikesh, a resident of CC Colony in Model Town, filed a complaint with the local police stating that his father had not returned from his morning walk. Soon after, the neighbourhood milkman reportedly saw Gupta lying on a road near Highway No 91, in the vicinity of the Priyadarshini Vihar Market."