[RT] The prime suspect in an international $300 million telefraud scam that targeted American taxpayers has been tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! by police at Mumbai International Airport. Sagar Thakkar, 24, was taken into custody in the early hours of Saturday morning as he stepped off a flight from Dubai, where he had been on the hiding out from Indian authorities for several months, Rooters reported, citing local police sources.
Thakkar is the suspected leader of a major international telefraud syndicate that operated in the US and India.
Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh told a news conference that Thakkar, who was charged as part of the ongoing DOJ investigation, had fled to Dubai following raids in October related to the case, Rooters reported.
When asked about his interrogation of the suspect, Singh told news hounds that he was "impressed with his knowledge of the US and Indian system" while also confirming that Thakkar had confessed to the crime.
The DOJ’s indictment alleges that the suspected conspirators posed as federal officials working for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... ) or other agencies and threatened victims with arrest, fines, imprisonment or even deportation if they did not pay the fake taxes or penalties.
The Justice Department claims that over 15,000 people have been targeted in the telephonic scam which has taken place for over a year.
A major breakthrough in the case came in October, when Indian authorities raided call centers in the Mumbai suburb of Thane and the western city of Ahmedabad, detaining over 700 suspects in the process.
The US Justice Department charged more than 60 people in India and the United States in connection with the case as a direct result of the raids.
Some 400 suspects have been officially charged by Thane police as part of their own investigation with roughly a dozen already in jug.
A video of one such scam posted online by the Eau Claire Police Department in the US has been shared over 190,000 times.
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When asked about his interrogation of the suspect, Singh told news hounds that he was "impressed with his knowledge of the US and Indian system" while also confirming that Thakkar had confessed to the crime.
Singh has his head up his ass - these clowns don't know a god damned thing about how the IRS operates. I got three of these assholes to confess to me they were scam artists when they tried to pull this shit on me and when I called them back just to pick a fight with them.
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Ground station for Russian Space Program? Boondoggle project for someone high in the Russian military-industrial complex? ELINT synthesis node for Central America? None, some or all of the above?
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Well, at least the Chinese leadership is more pragmatic and far less concerned about 'feelings' rather than security. Thus in a very state censored society, you can glean something from the fact they're not suppressing it.
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Upon reading fan translated Chinese web-novels there is a common thread of xenophobia in the Chinese psyche. And they have reason considering the number of foreign invaders they have experiences...
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Phobia def.--"an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something." Islamophobia, well, you get it from above def. Suppose the fear is not irrational but well-founded? Or suppose you just have an aversion to that "Islam?"
Can we just get rid of this useless concept invented by CAIR to smooth over acceptance of Islam by the rest of the world; in light of all the terrible, destructive terrorism unleashed on the rest of the world by Islam?
[RT] Germany has launched an investigation into 275 cases of suspected right-wing myrmidon activity among its service personnel, including racist comments on the Internet and saying "Heil Hitler," Germany’s Defense Ministry told parliament in a letter, according to local media.
Germany’s Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) is looking into 53 extremism cases among Bundeswehr soldiers from 2017, 143 cases from 2016 and 79 cases from before 2016, the Defense Ministry said in a letter to the Bundestag, DPA news agency reported, citing Funke Mediengruppe newspapers.
The 15-page letter expands on the cases that involve soldiers making gestures used in Nazi Germany along with the "Heil Hitler" phrase, and verbally abusing fellow servicemen with a migrant background, Rooters reported, citing the document.
A number of implicated soldiers have already been laid off or punished with a fine, but the measures seem inadequate to the offense, the Defense Ministry said.
Specifically, Case 29 deals with a soldier who was heard distinctively saying "Heil Hitler,""Heil our leader" and "Sieg Heil, comrades."
"The case was passed on to the military prosecutor and the public prosecutor’s office, but neither an early dismissal nor a service ban took place," the ministry said.
In another case a soldier who used a Facebook page associated with the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) left racist comments and call to introduce the death penalty for "typical foreigners." As a consequence, the soldier was "disciplined," the minister noted.
In a third case, another already "disciplined" serviceman was allowed to keep his weapon after he extended his hand in a Nazi salute while on a trip to Riga, Latvia.
Today in Germany, Nazi salutes in all forms ‐ written, uttered or even performed as a gesture ‐ are outlawed and are punishable by up to three years in prison as stated in the German Criminal Code.
In August 2016, the German Cabinet has approved an amendment to the German military law that allowed the MAD intelligence service to thoroughly check each applicant for possible connections to terrorist or myrmidon groups. The amendment is supposed to come into force on July 1, 2017.
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This isn't exactly a news flash. I visited Germany in early 1987 and the cops did not like the Turk 'immigrants' that hung out in the subways, looking like completely useless fucks. Lots of them, I might add. "Fickende Aüslander' was the phrase of choice for the local constabulary.
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The left-wing extremists are only slightly more popular - seeing as that's the govt.
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I hope Germany’s Defense Ministry is not like our Southern Poverty Law Center where anyone too close to the middle or are conservative are identified as extremists.
"Heil Hitler?" Hitler did not fare too well, he has been dead since 1945.
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Palm Sunday. 4 hours later in Dallas, thousands of Christians marched at the same downtown area to commemorate the Christian holiday, with zero news coverage.
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A hungry young Jumbo of Woburn
Just noshed in Revere on a Reuben
Constructed of "lobster"
With parts of a mobster
And squashed on the grill like a Cuban.
[DAILYWIRE] There were several other unresolved audit matters, which restricted our ability to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to express an opinion. These unresolved audit matters relate to (1) the Office of General Counsel’s refusal to sign the management representation letter, (2) HUD’s improper use of cumulative and first-in, first-out budgetary accounting methods of disbursing community planning and development program funds, (3) the $4.2 billion in nonpooled loan assets from Ginnie Mae’s stand-alone financial statements that we could not audit due to inadequate support, (4) the improper accounting for certain HUD assets and liabilities, and (5) material differences between HUD’s subledger and general ledger accounts. This audit report contains 11 material weaknesses, 7 significant deficiencies, and 5 instances of noncompliance with applicable laws and regulations.
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Financial malfeasance and graft are much easier when dodgy accounting is used. When finished here, perhaps the doctor's audit team could visit other agencies within the giverment as well.
I recommend a modest financial incentive be extended the audit team when gross "eorrors" such as this are validated.
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1/2 trillion? Where did the money go. Check out the Federal Reserve, they seem to have accounting problems also--something about dynamic bookkeeping. They also have money missing to the tune of several billions. State lost something like $6 billion under Hillary. Check out a few more agencies and who knows, our debt problems might diminish.
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[DAILYWIRE] There were several other unresolved audit matters, which restricted our ability to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to express an opinion. These unresolved audit matters relate to (1) the Office of General Counsel’s refusal to sign the management representation letter, (2) HUD’s improper use of cumulative and first-in, first-out budgetary accounting methods of disbursing community planning and development program funds, (3) the $4.2 billion in nonpooled loan assets from Ginnie Mae’s stand-alone financial statements that we could not audit due to inadequate support, (4) the improper accounting for certain HUD assets and liabilities, and (5) material differences between HUD’s subledger and general ledger accounts. This audit report contains 11 material weaknesses, 7 significant deficiencies, and 5 instances of noncompliance with applicable laws and regulations.
