| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section.
| Thousands march in Bucharest as toll from nightclub fire reaches 32 | |  By Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Thousands of people marched towards government headquarters in Bucharest late on Tuesday, demanding cabinet resignations as the death toll from a nightclub fire at the weekend reached 32, with dozens more in hospital in critical condition. "All I can do is keep my head bowed before judgment," owner Costin Mincu said on Facebook through his lawyer, so far the only comment from any of the three men.
|
| Exclusive - Vatican inspectors suspect key office was used for money laundering | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY(Reuters) - Vatican financial investigators suspect a department of the Holy See which oversees real estate and investments was used in the past for possible money laundering, insider trading and market manipulation, according to a report seen by Reuters. The information in the confidential document, which covers the period from 2000 to 2011, has been passed on to Italian and Swiss investigators for their checks because some activity tied to the accounts allegedly took place in these countries, a senior Vatican source said. While most of the media focus of the Vatican's murky finances has for decades centred on its official bank, the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), a department called the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See (APSA), acted as its own financial powerhouse.
|
| Candidate for FIFA presidency Sexwale warns against 'sponsor activism' | |  By Mica Rosenberg and Mark Hosenball NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major sponsors of world football went too far when they issued calls last month for the resignation of FIFA President Sepp Blatter, South African businessman Tokyo Sexwale and candidate to succeed Blatter, said on Tuesday. In September, Swiss authorities said they were opening a criminal investigation into Blatter, who has led FIFA since 1988. It was the latest blow to FIFA's reputation after U.S. prosecutors announced indictments in May accusing top football officials and marketing executives of multi-million dollar bribery schemes over 24 years.
|
| Brazil's Marin extradited to U.S. in FIFA corruption probe | |  By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH (Reuters) - Former Brazilian football chief Jose Maria Marin was extradited from Switzerland to the United States on Tuesday, Swiss authorities said, to face charges stemming from an FBI investigation into corruption at the highest levels of the sport. Marin was handed over to two U.S. police officers in Zurich who accompanied him on a flight to New York, a spokesman for the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police said. The 83-year-old is a former president of the Brazilian Football Confederation, and headed Brazil's preparations to host the 2014 World Cup.
|
| FIFA reform will be limited, says head of panel proposing changes | |  By Mark Hosenball and Mica Rosenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Swiss lawyer heading up a committee charged with reforming the structure and management of world soccer body FIFA says major changes to the organization's voting structure and imposing term limits on executive committee members will be difficult to achieve in the short term. Francois Carrard, a former International Olympic Committee (IOC) director general, told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday that his committee supports a 12-year term limit for FIFA's president, but such limits on executive committee members may not be the best course of action. "There are situations in some countries where you have wise leaders who could be useful for more than eight or 12 years," Carrard said before speaking at an international conference on sport security in New York.
|
| German soccer HQ raided over 2006 World Cup payment | | | By Andreas Kröner FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Police and tax investigators raided the headquarters of Germany's football association (DFB) on Tuesday and searched the homes of officials to investigate suspected tax evasion linked to the awarding of the 2006 World Cup, prosecutors said. The raids focused on 6.7 million euros ($7.4 million) the DFB transferred to world soccer's governing body FIFA in 2005 - adding another layer to U.S. and Swiss investigations into allegations of corruption in the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar. The Frankfurt state prosecutor last month launched a monitoring process - a step before a formal investigation - into the payment. |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment