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A New Zealand investment banker who spent millions of stolen dollars on prostitutes was caught after one of his clients watched a documentary on US fraudster Bernie Madoff, a court was heard.
Stephen Versalko, 51, was sentenced to six years in prison for stealing nearly $NZ 18 million ($14 million) over nine years from 2000.
Two prostitutes [...]

A police investigation into the sexual assault of a disabled boy stalled for two years until a man turned himself over to Queensland authorities, the District Court in Adelaide has heard.
The court was told the chaplain for a Fijian rugby team prompted the breakthrough in 2008.
Defence lawyer said Matthew Peter Watson was in exile on [...]

Adelaide Magistrates Court has heard a driver who crashed into parked cars lied to a witness by claiming to be a police officer.
Nikolas Angelou, 38, of Croydon Park has pleaded guilty to representing an officer and to driving offences.
Prosecutors told the court witnesses reported a four-wheel-drive swerving about in Carrington Street in the city last [...]

A 15-year-old boy has been refused bail over an alleged stabbing outside Erindale College in Canberra’s south on Tuesday.
A police informant told the ACT Magistrates Court a large number of people were involved in the fight in a carpark outside the school and the 18-year-old victim was surrounded by three main offenders, including the 15-year-old.
He [...]

A man has told a Rockhampton murder trial in central Queensland, he considered for a second that he may have killed his father and stepmother.
Hayden Michael Finch, 23, gave evidence in the Supreme Court on his own behalf yesterday and denied shooting Murray Finch and Leonie Musgrove.
But during cross examination by prosecutor Greg Cummings, Finch [...]

The former West Australian Premier Brian Burke has taken a swipe at the state’s Corruption and Crime Commission after his trial on false testimony charges.
Mr Burke has been charged with five counts of giving false and misleading evidence during the Commission’s hearings in 2006.
The Commission was investigating the former Premier’s lobbying activities on behalf of [...]

Rome, Sep. 18 (ANI): Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi would be forced to resign if laws providing him immunity are overturned by the Constitutional Court next month, his lawyers have admitted.

“If the Constitutional Court, which begins its deliberations on October 6, overturns the law there would be damage to the functions of an elected official, [...]

London, Sept 13 (ANI): Phillip Garrido, the “American Fritzl”, selected Jaycee Lee Dugard as his prey during a “child shopping” trip because she looked cute, his wife has told police in California.

Describing the precision that went into the abduction of the then 11-year-old Jaycee, Nancy told cops that they decided not to snatch the pretty [...]

Mumbai, Sep.9 (ANI): Police inspector Prakash Bhoite on Wednesday told a special trial court here that the terrorists involved in the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai, had planted two powerful bombs with timers in metal boxes at different places near the Taj Hotel [...]

Urumqi (China), Sep. 9 (ANI): Despite a death penalty warning, 77 cases of needle attack were reported between Sunday and Monday evenings in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, police say.

So far, police have caught 45 suspects during the syringe scare, of whom 12 remain [...]

Shah Alam (Malaysia), Sep. 9 (ANI): A Sessions Court in Malaysia has charged six persons with sedition in connection with last month’s cow head protest.

On August 28, nearly 50 protesters gathered at State Secretariat building’s gate carrying a cow’s decapitated head. They were protesting against a temple relocation proposal in Shah Alam city.

The accused [...]

London, Sep.8 (ANI): New evidence put before a British jury during a retrial of three Brit Muslim convicts suggests that the men used code words to discuss their plans with an al-Qaeda fixer based in Pakistan.

The e-mails and conversations suggest that the plot was in its final stages, possibly days away from execution in [...]

New Delhi, Sep.5 (ANI): Expressing India’s utter disappointment over the way the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks probe is being handled in Pakistan, Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram on Saturday blamed the Pakistan Government for deliberating holding it up.

Chidambaram [...]

Mumbai, Aug 26 (ANI): Judge M.L Tahiliyani who is presiding over the 26/11 trial expressed surprise on Wednesday over Maharashtra Home Minister Jayant Patil’s statement that the verdict will be delivered on September 15.

“Your Home Minister makes a statement that the case will be over by September 15 but his officer [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Aug.19 (ANI): An Islamic court has ordered the caning of a Muslim part-time model after she admitted to drinking beer in ahotel night club.

Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno was also fined 5,000 ringgit (856 dollars) for her offence, Sky News reports.

Shukarno, 32, was caught consuming alcohol when police raided a hotel nightclub in Pahang [...]

Mumbai, July 16 (ANI): Another CCTV footage of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist involved the terror attacks in Mumbai on November 26, 2008, will be played in court today.

Special prosecutor Ujjawal Nikam said the video of Kasab was retrieved from the Times of India building, facing Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway terminus (CST) railway [...]

London, Jul 4 (ANI): A man, who was weary of his wife’s nagging, made up a story that he had been kidnapped at knifepoint as he dared not tell her he had been to the bookies.

Peter Woodward, 57, told a court that in order to get away from his wife, he made up the [...]

Lahore, July 2 (ANI): Pakistani cricket authorities on Thursday fined Mohammad Asif one million rupees (12,500 dollars) over the fast bowler’s 19-day detention at Dubai airport for alleged drug possession.

Asif, 26, was detained last June on his way back home after playing in the Indian [...]

Mumbai, June 30 (ANI): Mumbai’s Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam has said that the 26/11 Mumbai attacks was the result of a conspiracy hatched in Pakistan.

“The investigation so far carried out by the Crime Branch of Mumbai Police clearly shows that that the conspiracy was hatched in Pakistan and even after the attack of 26/11, [...]

London, June 30 (ANI): A white supremacist, who allegedly planned to attack ‘non-British’ people with tennis ball bombs, was on the verge launching a campaign of terror, a British court has been told.

According to Sky News, Neil Lewington had allegedly developed a bomb production line in his bedroom and had a notebook entitled “Waffen SS [...]