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Equally, measures are in place to ensure that they are not used as escape hide-outs by fraudsters; (c) That some cash barons and bulk cash handling companies were splitting their stampede deposits using runners they picked from the streets. This time around, questions will be asked on all bulk cash deposits to certify source. Where no convincing proof is rendered, the money will be frozen in zero interest Anti-money Laundering bonds for a minimum period of 5 years pending further investigations; (d) Some dealers rushed to rural areas and dumped their dirty cash to unsuspecting rural people by buying off livestock in droves. This time around, the Zimbabwe Republic Police will be strict on issuance of livestock movement certificates in and out of rural areas; (e) Some had bulk-shipped cash in neighbouring countries and some as far as Europe in search of foreign exchange in the parallel market.
Geeks in Toyland
Pretty much the comment from all four of us was 'They're going to talk to us about Legos, and they're going to pay us with Legos?'" Hassenplug says. "'They actually want our opinion?' It doesn't get much better than that." Such loyalty isn't unusual among the fanboys who've swooned over Mindstorms since its 1998 debut. Four years after its release, version 2.0 still sells 40,000 units a year at $199 a pop - with no advertising - and has become Lego's all-time best-selling product. The market is almost evenly split between parents buying the kit for their budding engineers and grown-up geeks who build Mindstorms robots that can scale walls, solve Rubik's Cubes, or pick blue M&Ms out of a pile. The kit, due in stores in August, looks nothing like 2.0 and isn't backward compatible.
Nizhny Novgorod Region
Hotels and restaurants, trading houses, the largest, richest banks, and the offices of shipbuilding companies were all located there. In the early 20th century the main fair house, the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the State Bank (1913), and the People's House and Duma (1904) were built in the city. The first funicular railway in Russia was built for the opening of the All-Russian Industrial Exhibition in 1896.
After the Revolution of 1917, the Communist leaders tried to wipe out the old culture. Many churches and historical buildings were destroyed, and many progressive and educated people of the city were imprisoned or killed.
Nizhny Novgorod remained the industrial center in the USSR. The largest auto plant in Russia was founded here in 1937. But it was only in 1990, after the decline of Communist regime, that the fair was revived.
candidate got disability 'but denied his illnesses'
A Birmingham council election candidate accused of improperly obtaining disability grants to improve his house insisted that he had no serious illnesses when first quizzed about the matter, it was claimed in court. Liberal Democrat Saeed Aehmed was dropped as a candidate in Aston by the Labour Party a month before the 2002 city elections after failing to give satisfactory answers about four improvement grant applications worth £17,000 for his Bevington Road house. The money paid for central heating, a washing machine and a downstairs shower room. He joined the Liberal Democrats and was chosen to contest Aston at last year's council elections, but was beaten by Labour's Muhammad Afzal. Mr Aehmed is appearing at Birmingham County Court after bringing an election petition alleging dirty tricks against Coun Afzal and the Labour Party.
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Scams costing West Australians millions
Despite repeated warnings from the Department of Consumer Protection, people are still falling victim to foreign frauds in their thousands. Consumer Protection Commissioner Patrick Walker said that while the agency had been able to stop the flow of fraudulent mail from two prolific overseas scam operators, there were many more lining up to take their places. The agency's website, WA ScamNet, which gathers information from consumers and businesses and profiles scams operating in WA, received about 20,000 reports of postal and email scams operating in WA in the past year. Among those who lost money was an elderly man with dementia who spent up to $100,000 on overseas prize and lotteries not realising they were scams. WA ScamNet helped him recover about $7000. Others fleeced included a man who lost $250,000, a businessman who lost $90,000 and a South-West health professional who parted with $20,000 after being told they had won millions in an overseas lottery.
International Correspondents Blog
Defeat: why they lost Iraq," is his explanation of why George W. Bush and Tony Blair lost their war and indeed, in his view, were bound to do so. Jonathan Steele who has covered Iraq extensively and has twice been named International Reporter of the Year, joins us in studio for an illuminating discussion of his book which is bound to prove controversial in certain quarters. Cuba and press freedom is considered by many a contradiction in terms. Our Havana bureau Chief, Morgan Neill, looks at one Cuban blogger who is testing the limits of freedom of expression. A few years ago blogging was practically unheard of in mainstream journalism, but it has proved itself to be a powerful force in countries such as Burma as a means, not only of freedom of expression, but also often the only way news in those countries can transcend borders.
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