Word: frauds
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...National Intelligence Service (SIN), have been virtually inseparable since 1992, when the President abruptly dissolved Congress for eight months and took near absolute power in order to fight--successfully, as it turned out--a Maoist insurgency that had brought the country to chaos. Ever since, charges of torture, fraud in last April's presidential election, and gunrunning have been leveled against SIN. They culminated two weeks ago with the broadcast of a videotape, apparently leaked from Montesinos' headquarters, showing the spy chief handing over a thick packet of cash to persuade an opposition legislator to switch his allegiance to Fujimori...
...Last week Kostunica was only a hopeful president-elect. While his supporters filled the streets shouting that Milosevic was finished, their nemesis still sat in his White Palace, as Belgrade dubs his official seat of power. He's used vote fraud, trumped-up crises and constitutional finagling to stay in power before. Serbs were finally brave enough to cast their votes against him. To get him out of his palace for good, they may have to take his power into their own hands...
...your good name can cost a lot more in terms of time and expense. Enter companies like Travelers and Chubb, which now offer identity-theft insurance. The policies cover a broad range of costs--from legal fees to lost wages. To learn more about how to protect yourself from fraud, visit www.consumer.gov...
FATF was not the first group to home in on Liechtenstein's peccadillos. Last May the nation of 32,000 people was shaken to learn that Austrian police called in by the government had detained four men on suspicion of fraud, misuse of funds and money laundering. The four, who were subsequently released from jail uncharged, included Gabriel Marxer, a legislator in the 25-member parliament, and Rudolf Ritter, brother of Deputy Prime Minister Michael Ritter. Legislators agreed to lift Marxer's parliamentary immunity to allow him to be detained. In a separate action, police searched and carted away documents...
...therefore opt for a runoff election, preferring to suppress some of his opponent's vote tally rather than inflate his own so that neither man registers more than 49 percent. Milosevic, also, is far from lacking in the requisite cynicism required to simply use opposition charges of widespread ballot fraud as an excuse to call another election. And if he does play for time, the temptation may prove overwhelming to distract the electorate by fomenting another confrontation with NATO, either in Kosovo or Montenegro...