TERROR CHECK

THE TERROR WITHIN
Australian authorities arrested 17 suspects less than a week after Prime Minister, John Howard tightened up on the terror laws. The alleged leader of the fundamentalists is Abdul Nacer Benbrika (UID 335033), also known as Abu Bakr. He is 45 years old and holds dual Algerian, Australian citizenship. World-Check had profiled him in August of this year, three months prior to his arrest! It is suggested that he was overall leader of the group, which he had broken into two separate cells, one based in Sydney and the other in Melbourne. He has been charged with leading a terrorist group. The Melbourne suspects were charged with membership of a terror group. Those arrested have been remanded in custody and are due to appear in a court hearing at the end of January 2006. To see who else is involved check out his profile.

WELL CONNECTED SUICIDE BOMBER FAILS
Sajida Al-Rishawi, (UID 379998) is the suicide bomber whose explosives failed to detonate in the Radisson hotel in Jordan's capital early in November. Al Rishawi claims connections to the hierarchy of Al Qaida, it is believed she is the sister of Mubarak Atrous Rishawi. He was a key aide of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Rishawi was reportedly killed by US forces in Falluja, Iraq.

BALI BOMB MAKER KILLED
Azahari Bin Husin (UID 98847) allegedly the top bomb expert of Jemaah Islamiyah (UID 57652)and key player in the Bali bombings in 2002 and in the more recent attacks in Oct 2005. Bin Hisun had successfully evaded attempts to capture him, having been on the sanctions lists of the UN, the EU, USA, England and Australia to name but a few, for over three years. However, the authorities finally got their man earlier this month, when he was gunned down by police in a raid on a 'safe house' in Batu, East Java.

UNCOVERING RISK..........................

STAY VIGILANT - ARE THESE YOUR CUSTOMERS?

CORRUPTION IN ILLINOIS

George Ryan (UID 15056), the former Governor of Illinois was indicted in December 2003, we however have had him on World-Check since February 2001. Ryan, now 71 years old has been accused of racketeering, conspiracy, mail fraud and other crimes alleging public corruption, official misconduct and fraudulent conduct. It is alleged that his company Comguard as well as relatives benefited financially during his tenure as Governor. Ryan has denied all charges. His trial is now in progress in Chicago, follow events by using World-Check's Newscheck facility and watch for updates on his profile too.

PEP ALERT... CHIRAC'S MAN BANNED FROM POLITICAL OFFICE

In the last alert we featured French politician Didier Schuller. Once again the name crops up in another housing scandal, this time involving $80 million in kickbacks on Paris HLM public works contracts. One of his co-accused Michel Roussin was convicted in Oct 2005, given a hefty fine and a 4-year suspended prison sentence, he was also banned from holding political office for five years, for his involvement in those corrupt practices. Roussin who was born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1939, was President Chirac's former right-hand man when he was Cabinet director at Paris City Hall and was also the Government's Cooperation Minister in the 1990s. He has been profiled on World-Check for five years. Check him out on UID 8671 and see who else is allegedly involved, who came to court, and who was acquitted.

BRITISH FINANCIER CONVICTED OF MASSIVE FRAUD

It has taken an eight year investigation to finally convict financier Ian Andrew Leaf (UID 87524). The British national had been residing in Verbais, Switzerland since 1987. He was found guilty of 13 counts of fraudulent trading amounting to £76m. Leaf set up a complex fraud involving 13 subsidiary companies he had purchased in the UK, he created fictitious documents from a bank registered in Nauru, controlled by him which showed these companies had large loans with the bank. He then set off the tax liabilities against the fabricated interest payments on the loans. It was also found that he had falsely reclaimed corporation tax. He was first profiled on World-Check in October 2002. Leaf will be sentenced next month, to find out how long he will have to spend behind bars check out his profile for updates. Leaf will also be the subject of confiscation proceedings at a later date. Don't miss out, use Newscheck to get the latest developments.

JAMAICAN DRUG LORD'S PAYBACK TIME

Lincoln White, divided his time between a seemingly spartan existence in London and living in the lap of luxury at his mansions in Montego Bay, Jamaica. He was the king pin in a multi million cocaine dealing enterprise which was believed to be worth £170, that stretched from the Caribbean to South and Central America with the product's final destination the United Kingdom, where then it would then be converted into crack, to ensure the syndicate a higher profit margin. He had the mother of three of his children wire the cash overseas in order to buy the drugs. Apparently his couriers were recruited through word of mouth, were all well compensated and their flights and a few weeks in a hotel paid for before they returned home with the drugs. In 2004, the 40 year old was convicted and jailed for 25 years after a high security trial. In October this year, eighteen months after he was jailed, the paymaster knocked at his cell door and demanded that he forfeit over £3 million, or face an additional six years behind bars. To read more about one of the UK's top drug criminals and his cohorts go to UID 255367.

"We continue to believe that the greater risk in dealing with PEPs lies not so much with politicians who readily identify themselves but more so with those that choose to use intermediaries (the EPs!) and corporate structures to conceal their ill-gotten gains. Not only is this industry in constant evolution but the content we correlate and the people and entities we track are ‘moving targets.”

David Leppan, CEO World-Check

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November 2005

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