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ASIM WARIS, a student in Pakistan, after a suicide attack at a mosque in Rawalpindi killed his friend and at least 39 other people...
...There are no reliable statistics on the number of corporate raider attacks carried out each year, although media reports have put the number as high as 70,000. But the impact of the criminal practice on the economy is quite clear - business lobbyists and corruption experts say it is paralyzing small- and mid-sized businesses, as well as scaring off foreign investment. "If an Italian is doing business here and is targeted in a raider attack, he's going to tell his countrymen," says Alexander Brechalov, vice president of Opora, a Russian lobbying group for small businesses. "Who is going...
...Hermitage claims it was targeted in just such an attack two years ago and that Magnitsky was arrested in retaliation for going public with the scam. According to Magnitsky, the raid began in June 2007, when police burst into Hermitage's offices with warrants and seized company records, corporate seals and tax certificates, which were then used by corrupt government officials and other members of their criminal gang to take ownership of three Hermitage subsidiaries. Months later, the company claims that phony lawsuits were filed against the three firms, leading to several judgments against them. With the assistance...
...Kirill Kabanov, a member of Medvedev's human rights council and head of the National Anticorruption Committee, a nongovernmental organization, said the attack on Hermitage assets was a highly sophisticated example of reiderstvo. "The tactics were different, but the strategy was the same," Kabanov said...
...Surrey police have not blamed gypsies for an attack on their force helicopter, no staff in their operations rooms were threatened by gypsies and no gypsy site was being targeted for a raid as we reported on May 14. We apologize for the mistakes and are happy to set the record straight...