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Last week Airbus reported to the U.S Department of Justice (DoJ) that it has breached American arms export regulations by making “certain inaccuracies” in its disclosures about payments to middlemen. The U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations requires disclosure about third-party agents who assist with export deals worth $500,000 or more. On 1 November the […]
Art sleuths come in various shapes: the assiduous researchers who have a specialisation, the detectives who try to deal directly with art thieves (often undercover), the people who run databases that track art that has been reported lost or stolen and investigators who, possibly with the assistance of any of the above, will check the […]
Police in Manchester, England, conducted raids last week of businesses selling counterfeit luxury products. In one day they seized more than £2 million ($2.7 million) of counterfeit clothing. Six people were detained by police. The raids were conducted in the notorious and aptly named Cheetham Hill area of the city. Chief Inspector Denise Pye of […]
Computer crime has become the major threat to personal, corporate and state security. It seems we are forever playing catch-up with the cyber thieves, extortionists and manipulators. And if our vulnerability to computer crime isn’t enough to scare the hell out of us, now there are civil suits that seem to present a choice between […]
Ever since Robert Peel as Home Secretary of Great Britain established the Metropolitan Police in 1829 and put 1,000 constables on the streets of London, politicians have been trying to come up with new solutions to crime. Of course, crime has changed over the nearly 200 years since the formation of the Met and modern […]
It probably began when humankind first organised itself into social groups. Someone had to be appointed to look out for anything that might endanger the group while it slept, or while the men were out hunting or just to make sure the fire kept burning at night. They were look-outs. Now, in the so-called information […]