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Reporter
Friday, 25 March 2011
Jakarta Police are saying a police officer caught doing drugs with Soeharto’s great granddaughter is a drug addict.
The Jakarta Police are saying a police officer caught doing drugs with Soeharto’s great granddaughter is a drug addict.
The police caught the officer with the rank of adj. sr. comr. using crystal methamphetamine (shabu-shabu) together with Putri Ariyanti Haryowibo at a South Jakarta hotel last week. The police also found 30 grams of crystal meth and 500 ecstasy pills.
“[The officer] and Putri are both only drug users at this point,” Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Baharudin Djafar said Friday.
He said that the police had not found any evidence that the arrested officer was part of a drug syndicate. The officer’s ethics trial will be put on hold until the investigation into the case is complete.
“We are still in the process of investigating whether [the officer] was just a user or a dealer,” he said, as reported by tempointeraktif.com.
India is reviewing the licenses of all of the more than 4,000 pilots working there for "irregularities,"
India is reviewing the licenses of all of the more than 4,000 pilots working there for "irregularities," a move that comes amid charges that more than a dozen pilots used falsified credentials for their jobs, the BBC reports.
The story, which traces back to a January flight incident, has been dramatically unfolding in recent weeks. The latest development came this morning when Indian aviation authorities revoked "the licenses of 15 commercial pilots for exaggerating their flying time during training," The Associated Press reports.
AP adds "police have arrested four pilots with fake aviation licenses in the past two weeks, leading to concerns about unqualified pilots endangering the lives of thousands of travelers. Opposition lawmakers have accused the government of failing to prevent corruption in licensing."
AFP writes "India's fake pilot scandal (first) began unraveling when a female captain landed her packed airliner on the nose instead of the rear wheels as she touched down in the holiday hotspot of Goa."
That pilot, Parminder Kaur Gulati, worked for rapidly expanding Indian discount carrier IndiGo. After being investigated for the Goa incident, she was fired and eventually arrested for flying with falsified qualifications. It turns out that the 38-year-old pilot had several similar incidents on her record, but they had been kept from airline regulators, according to the Toronto Star.
AFP says "the case set alarm bells ringing for passengers anxious about the idea of a semi-trained fraud being responsible for their lives, and for airline bosses, who have been hiring crew at a furious pace in recent years. It also cast a spotlight on a familiar problem in India, where corruption is widely seen as on the rise: most things, even qualifications for highly skilled jobs, can be bought at a price."
That's apparently not the only ongoing concern in Indian aviation.
Posted in: Indian pilots accused of faking credentialsstrong earthquake that toppled homes in north eastern Burma has killed over 70 people
strong earthquake that toppled homes in north eastern Burma has killed over 70 people, and there were fears today the toll would mount as conditions in more remote areas became known.
Last night's quake, measured at a magnitude 6.8 by the US Geological Survey, was centred just north of the town Tachileik in the mountains along the Thai border, but was felt hundreds of miles away in the Thai capital Bangkok and Vietnamese capital Hanoi.
Burmese state radio later put the death toll at 74 people with at least 111 injured and officials are concerned that the damage could be even worse in rural areas.
Thursday, 24 March 2011
SIX people have been arrested and firearms seized as police from the Asian Crime Squad raided a number of clandestine drug laboratories.
Officers also uncovered three clandestine drug laboratories and seized cash, ammunition and heroin.
Asian Crime Squad detectives with assistance from the Professional Standards Command, Tactical Operations Unit, Public Order Riot Squad and South West Region Enforcement Squad executed nine simultaneous search warrants at various locations across Sydney today.
Six men aged in their 20s and 30s were arrested.
One of them, aged 21, is believed to be an associate of the Rebels Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. Charges are expected to be laid against all the men.
A .38 calibre revolver, a replica pistol, an air rifle, a large quantity of ammunition, small quantities of methamphetamine, heroin and cannabis, fake credit cards and a sum of cash were also seized during the operation.
VILLAWOOD man was charged with drug and firearms offences during an Asian Crime Squad operation targeting trafficking of drugs and weapons
VILLAWOOD man was charged with drug and firearms offences during an Asian Crime Squad operation targeting trafficking of drugs and weapons last Tuesday.
The 28-year-old man was taken to Fairfield police station and charged with supplying an indictable quantity of a prohibited drug, possessing a prohibited drug, selling prohibited firearms and participating in a criminal group.
He was refused bail and faced court last Tuesday, where he was again refused bail and ordered to re-appear in court on March 22.
two major Asian organised crime groups specialising in gambling fraud are behind the current match-fixing investigation
According to YLE's sources, two major Asian organised crime groups specialising in gambling fraud are behind the current match-fixing investigation, and the Singaporean man arrested in February could be working for them. He is wanted for several crimes, including gambling crimes.
Finnish FA General Secretary Kimmo J. Lipponen says that the investigation is a global affair.
"The actors are very international and operate in several different countries, as far as we know outside Europe in Africa and Asia as well as South America," said Lipponen. "The police—both the National Bureau of Investigation in Finland and Interpol on a global level—are trying to clarify what exactly is involved."
The investigation has stigmatised Veikkausliiga’s operations, according to League CEO Timo Marjamaa. He believes that the struggle affects the whole sport.
”It’s easy to get to a situation where these games were affected by wider criminal activities, against which we’re all fighting,” said Marjamaa. ”We are not immune to these problems.”
Full Support
Marjamaa believes that the matter is not yet resolved, and says that the league will offer full support to the ongoing police investigation. Clubs are also assisting police where appropriate, to help them get to the bottom of things.
The police have arrested six players in different parts of Finland. Four of them are from Rovaniemen Palloseura (RoPS), and two played for AC Oulu last season.
”I’m certain everyone is waiting for the police to complete their investigations,” says Marjamaa. ”Once they’re done, clubs can make their own decisions about what to do with the players in question.”
Marjamaa reminds people that the players have contracts that remain in force.
”Of course Veikkausliiga can make recommendations, but you have to remember that as long as things remain unfinished, people should not act too hastily,” said Marjamaa.
He also said that he did not know which games were under investigation, just that some were Ykkönen games, the second tier of Finnish football, and some were in Veikkausliiga, the top flight.
