Racket

Fake certificate racket busted

BIDAR: The police have busted a fake certificate racket in Bidar city and arrested a person allegedly involved in it. However, the main accused and his accomplices are at large. Additional Superintendent of Police G.M. Yatanoor...

N. Korean soldier defects to South

SEOUL, South Korea - A North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea through the heavily fortified border dividing the two countries, an official from the South's spy agency said Tuesday, in only the second such defection in...

Culture of Lies: Conservative Revolt

Editors Note: This is is part of the Culture of Lies series; read the entire series here. Perhaps the most fascinating part of this mind-bendingly historic election cycle is that so many conservative Republicans are standing up...

The iPhone App Store - a classic protection racket

30 per cent to the bag man Fail and You "Listen up, friend. We take care of the community. We all protect each other. You wanna set up shop in this neighborhood, you're gonna need some protection, you know what I'm sayin'? I...

Uganda: Makerere Certifies Fake Transcripts

Posted to the web 27 October 2008 Edwin Nuwagaba Kampala A criminal gang in Kampala is selling fake degree transcripts from Makerere University at Shs250,000, a Daily Monitor investigation can reveal. Following earlier reports...

Flesh trade racket busted, 10 held

The Three Town police on Sunday arrested 10 persons, including a woman organising prostitution, from a house at Ramnagar. On a tip-off, the police raided the house and found that a 28-year-old woman from Rajahmundry was running...

Money trail in India

New Delhi - Indian investigative agencies have found the money trail in a multimillion-dollar kidney transplant racket leading to Hong Kong and Australia, and will ask authorities in those to help in ...

Hyderabad: Fake degree racket busted

HYDERABAD: City Police on Saturday busted a fake certificate racket with the arrest of two persons from a premises here and seized several fake educational certificates and other incriminating material from their possession....