Archive for 'Great Britain'
Thousands British top-managers are suspected of dishonesty
25 February 2008About four thousand heads of British companies appear in the international lists of suspected of swindle, money-laundering and financing of terrorist groupings.
Such results were received in the research carried out by British non-governmental financial service World-Check.
World-Check’s list of top-managers includes, in particular, 154 suspected of financial frauds, 37 – of drugs trafficking and 13 […]
British parents will be allowed to trace paedophiles
21 February 2008British Home Office is going to allow parents to check to in police, whether the person, who has access to their children, was condemned earlier as a pedophile, informes BBC News.
In particular, single mothers can check their new boy-friend. Also it would be possible to get the information on the neighbors who agree to look […]
Swindle with credit cards
18 February 2008Swindlers have cloned in ATM and Chip and PIN devices cards of almost every fifth British.
While the Internet remains one of the main sources of swindle, holders of credit, debit and ATM-cards run the risk in streets. According to the new data, the most dangerous city is London.
The research conducted by company CPP, has […]
British legislators have decided to punish pirates
15 February 2008British legislators work above the bill, which will force providers to disconnect users, who illegally download films and music, writes The Times. The document is expected to be submitted in second half of February.
The law obliges providers to take measures against the subscribers who have received access to pirate materials. Such users will be notified […]
Illegal bug in British prison
11 February 2008The lawyer of the prisoner of the British prison Littlehey in County Cambridgeshire has uncovered, that his telephone conversations with the client had been tapped.
Dialogue’s printout of the lawyer Creighton with Harry Roberts, who services the penitentiary for murder of three policemen, was among the documents, officially directed to the lawyer.
The lawyer has told, […]
Increase in crime in the Great Britain
30 January 2008For the last couple years in the society keep on discussions concerning the possible introduction of the electronic tracking system for criminals: such initiative generates too many doubts of ethical character. However steady growth of number of prisoners in the Great Britain forces authorities to search for non-standard ways.
If in 1997 in prisons of […]
British government concentrates attention on extremist websites
22 January 2008Home Secretary Jackie Smith has declared intention of the government to close all extremist Internets-sites, writes The Guardian. Search and closedown of the sites connected to terrorists are a part of the governmental strategy on extermination of radical groupings in Great Britain.
Minister is going to meet with representatives of the largest GB’s providers to […]
US fears terrorism threat from Europe
18 January 2008Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has declared, that Europe can shortly turn into “base for terrorists” and the most serious threat for US safety can come therefrom, transfers Reuters.
In the interview to BBC’s World News America he has noted about the recently growth of terrorism in Europe.
In support […]
Microchips under skin for criminals in Great Britain
16 January 2008In the United Kingdom the government elaborates the program on implantation of microchips to trace the location of criminals. For the time being the matter concerns pedophiles, but some are afraid, that ordinary simple citizens will be the next.
British government plans to implant microchips under skin to criminals and trace their location with which […]
The British authorities would like to forbid prostitution
26 December 2007The British government considers the proposal to forbid prostitution.
Fiona MacTaggart, who coordinates the work of the government in this direction, says that recently London has become a trans-shipment point for the criminal groupings engaged in human trafficking from the Eastern Europe.
In the nearest future the government is going to send abroad an expert […]
