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The officials were receiving Rs15,000 from a student to allow him to appear in the supplementary examinations Two Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) officials were arrested on Tuesday afternoon on charges of receiving a bribe. An anti-corruption team raided the BZU Controller’s Office under the supervision of Magistrate Muhammad Akbar and caught two officials. The officials were receiving Rs15,000 from a student to allow him to appear in the supplementary examinations. The men have been sent to jail on judicial remand. The complaint was lodged by Javed Iqbal, a Masters student, to Multan Anti-Corruption Director Dr Nasir Sayal. Javed Iqbal, a resident of Shujabad, told The Express Tribune that he had failed in one subject of his English Part II examination. He said he went to the Controller’s Office two months ago to submit an application to appear in the supplementary examinations. “Muhammad Najaf, who works in the Controller’s Office, approached me and took me to mee...

There used to be a popular car sticker with the inscription, “Insured by the mafia. You hit me, we hit you!”, which seems to have vanished from our streets. The message therein is simple: It is based on a notion of equating vengeance with justice and the absence of proportion between offence and punishment. Unfortunately, that is the situation in our country today as more and more Nigerians boycott the court in favour of judicial black market where “justice” is swift and without mercy. It is then little wonder that almost every day comes with stories of killings, most of them based on revenge for real or perceived injury. If we will also be honest, our justice administration system has reached a point where it is almost impossible to secure conviction even for crime suspects caught in the act and for that reason, many Nigerians would rather take the laws into their own hands. Today, there are too numerous homicide cases that remain unresolved, and given our collectiv...

Brainerd Lakes Fight Mafia members competed in the recent Full Nelson Promotions event at Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen. Gary Granholm defeated Marc Hummel by submission in the first round at 38 seconds, bringing the welterweight title back to Brainerd. It’s the Fight Mafia’s first title. Loren Jones was defeated by Jesse Wannemacher by submission (choke) at 2:06 in the first round. Heavyweight Matt Thurstin defeated Ryan Martine at 2:23 of the second round via knockout (headkick). Travis Sykes did not compete due to lack of an opponent. Next event by Full Nelson Promotions will be “Fight Night in Fergus Falls” Jan. 11, 2013.

“Well, well, look who's laundering...” The arrest of the “godfather” of the Chinese mafia in Spain in mid-October has lifted the veil on crime within the community and reflects the power, complexity and international cohesion of these criminal groups. Surely not in its worst nightmares could the Chinese community in Spain have imagined an event so damning to their image as Operación Cheqian-Emperador (Operation Emperor). For a group that makes discretion the bedrock of its way of life – and one of its strengths – the information that has been splashed across the headlines could not be worse: wild tales of how criminal gangs have allegedly defrauded the Spanish Treasury of 35,000 million euros, violent extortion by the gang headed by Gao Ping, corruption and businesses tied to prostitution and to drug-trafficking. Though one must not judge the whole Chinese community by its parts and not all the 170,000 Chinese living in Spain can or should be judged by the same y...

In Palermo, police arrested 41 suspected members of the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian branch of the Italian mafia, on Tuesday. They are accused of involvement in extorsion, drug trafficking, illegal possession of firearms and other crimes. The producers of a television series filmed in Palermo were among the victims of the suspects, as well as businessmen and shopkeepers, police said, adding that several mafia-owned betting shops were raided in the same operation. In Turin, a judge ordered the arrest of 22 suspected members of the Ndrangheta, the branch of the mafia rooted in the southern region of Calabria but also present in the north of Italy, and the seizure of assets worth several million euros. The judge, Giuseppe Salerno, said that the Ndrangheta had managed to influence the result of last year's local elections in Chivasso, a town on the outskirts of Turin. According to investigators, the Ndrangheta controlled the votes of the third-placed candidate in the...

One mobster hated Frank Sinatra so much that he wanted to kill the singer, according to secret tapes put forward as evidence at the trial of an alleged mafia "boss." The trial of Joseph "Uncle Joe" Ligambi, reputed head of the Philadelphia mob, began last Thursday after he was arrested on gambling and extortion charges in 2011. Prosecutors claim that Ligambi provided video poker machines and other illegal gambling devices to bars, restaurants and shops in Philadelphia. The prosecution wants to use tapes recorded by a mobster-turned-FBI informant to paint a picture of the violent past of the mob. However defense attorney Christopher Warren, who is representing Ligambi and another alleged gangster Joseph "Scoops" Licata, described the tapes to jurors as just a "bunch geriatric gangsters talking," according to philly.com. He said that the recordings were not relevant to his clients' trial. The tapes were made by mobster Nicholas ...

In many ways, Swedish House Mafia 's split couldn't have come at a better time. The collective - made up of progressive house DJs Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello and Axwell - led the charge of chart-friendly dance music, proving a cut above most with their credible beginnings rooted in the Ibiza rave circuit. Now, with dance on the decline, they are attempting to call an end to it all with their second and final compilation. Fortunately, they're doing so with a bang. Recent single 'Don't You Worry Child' topped the charts and showed they had perfected the balance between credible house and Oceana-raving pop, while previous and harder cuts 'Antidote' and 'Greyhound' served their purpose soundtracking this year's club 18-30s. There's little new to be found amongst the 22 tracks, with around two-thirds being the best of their individual work and remixes served up to other acts; ranging from an atmospheric re-swizzling o...

MONTREAL - Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto had direct access to City Hall through two engineers who played golf with him at a Caribbean resort, a public inquiry heard Monday. Retired engineer Gilles Surprenant also intensified a political firestorm by claiming a colleague told him the city's executive committee took a 3% cut off of all excavation contracts. Surprenant, a longtime city planner, has already admitted to inflating contracts for a cartel of contractors who paid him $600,000 in bribes from 1990 to 2009. He told the Charbonneau Commission that contractor Tony Conte invited him and fellow engineer Luc Leclerc to the Dominican Republic to play a week of golf in 1996 or 1997. When the bureaucrats asked Conte about the identity of the fourth partner, he refused to say, but the partner's identity became clear prior to the flight. "We got to the airport, we got a surprise, we saw Mr. Rizzuto," Surprenant told the inquiry. "He was alone. All I ca...

ISLAMABAD  - Land mafia and illegal land grabbers have again become active in Sector G-14 and resorted to aerial firing to terrorize the workers of the construction company appointed for the development of the sector, after which the uplift work has been halted. According to sources, some officials of district management, police and Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation were allegedly among the land mafia people and were backing such activities. According to sources, Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation gave contract to National Construction Company for the development work of sectors G-14/2 and 3. The construction company shifted the machinery to the sites, but the foundation did not establish a police post or deployed Rangers in the area, despite its promise to provide security to the company. In this regard, an employee of the construction company said that providing security to them was the responsibility of the housing foundation. A...

Every day one comes across beggars at every traffic signal in Islamabad, some of them are handicapped, who obviously cannot reach the place without any help. It has been observed that have an organisation behind them that provides them with pick and drop facility. The handlers of this ‘profitable’ business provide these beggars with not only transport facility but also a kind of hostel to live in. This is a thriving business depending on large number of children being kidnapped from villages. No action has been taken in the last six decades to curtail beggary, which has been condemned by Islam, and Pakistan being a Muslim country should have abolished this. Sadly there is no expectation from this present government, which is already bent upon making the entire nation a beggar due to their begging bowl diplomacy. Lets hope that someone in the administration will take stock of the situation and brings an end to this exploitation of the poor.