PEP ... FORMER PANAMA OFFICIALS COULD FACE TRIAL

In August 2004 the Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles (UID 118838) was allegedly assisted in leaving Panama with the collaboration of a number of civil servants of the Mireya Moscoso’s regime. The investigation was then declared closed. In May this year, the Attorney General’s Office re-opened the case to determine the responsibility of the former minister of Government and Justice, Arnulfo Escalona (UID 151240), the director of Immigration, Ilka de Bares (UID 328656), and the Major of the National Police, Casto Amor Ramos (UID475847). The prosecutor is reported to have declared them provisionally free of evasion charges. However, this month Mercedes de León, the first Panamanian anti-corruption attorney requested the opening of a criminal trial against Escalona, also former Migration deputy Javier Tapia (UID 475848) and Ilka de Bares’ spouse the former National Police Chief Carlos Bares Weeden (UID 328655). Carriles was profiled in late 2004 when he appeared in the US Immigration and Customs (ICE) press releases. World-Check monitors all major sanctions and embargo lists, as well as regulatory and enforcement agency releases, creating and updating profiles continuously. Our Data-file users, who regularly screen their client base, are therefore alerted to any change in a customer’s status.

JAILED FOR STEALING TAX-REFUND CHECKS

Talcum Marsh III (UID 299949) orchestrated a money laundering conspiracy involving the theft of US$18 million in US Treasury checks, last month he was sentenced to just under 22 years in jail and ordered to pay almost US$1 million in restitution. Marsh and his brother Benjamin (UID 299948) are reported to have overseen the laundering of the stolen tax-refund checks, which had been taken by post office employees and were then cashed by ‘walkers’ who had obtained false identification. The FBI initially named 20 people including Marsh as having participated in this scheme. Marsh together with fellow conspirator Rashad Green (UID 299947) was also charged with trafficking in the club drug ecstasy. To read the full story, check out the hyperlinks on Marsh’s profile.

ITALIAN BUSINESSMAN ACCUSED OF FRAUD

Businessman Massimo Canavesio (UID286094) has been in more than a small amount of trouble with the enforcement agencies. In 1993 he received a suspended sentence of 24 months for fraudulent bankruptcy, two years later a warrant for his arrest was issued for his involvement in another bankruptcy. In July this year he was arrested on charges of fraud and embezzlement for his reported role in false administration of two financial companies, based in Chiasso, Switzerland. Click on our Display-Graph feature to reveal Canavesio’s network of associates and companies, which include a former French Prime Minister’s son.

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EXECUTION DATES SET FOR ASIAN TERRORISTS

Later this month three of the Bali bombers are set to face execution. Amrozi bin Nurhasyim (UID 89106) dubbed the ‘smiling assassin’, Imam Samudra (UID 89100) and Huda Bin Abdulhaq (UID 89109) were convicted under terrorism laws established post the October 2002 bombings. Even though the Indonesian constitution does not allow for retrospective prosecutions, reports state that all three wish to die as martyrs and have instructed their legal counsel to not lodge any final appeals. Meanwhile, Turkish-Canadian citizen Guler Dilaver (UID 439901) who was wanted by Interpol and went under a number of aliases was arrested in Uzbekistan in March whilst carrying Canadian documentation. He was deported to China and is due to be executed this month for attacks he carried out on a state delegation in China’s western Xingjian Province in May 2000. World-Check’s researchers monitor hundreds of thousands of different sources and in July they updated over twelve and a half thousand profiles.

TERRORIST AND EXTORTIONIST TO BE SENTENCED

Abu Saleem Ansari (UID 54422) alleged former trusted lieutenant of the notorious Dawood Ibrahim (UID 48659) has been charged with involvement in the 1993 attacks on Mumbai that killed more than 250 people. Ansari is also suspected of involvement in more than 60 murders, extortion and kidnappings involving ‘Bollywood’ film actors and producers. On the run since 1993, he fled to Portugal with former actress Monica Bedi (UID 190167), both were arrested in Lisbon in 2002 after Interpol issued a red notice. Ansari was sentenced to four-and-a-half years for possession of forged documents and resisting arrest, Bedi got a two-year sentence. Both were extradited to India last year. The verdict on the Mumbai case for Ansari is expected this month, and Bedi faces further charges. Follow the cases with our updates and by making use of World-Check’s unique News-Check facility, which trawls hundreds of thousands of news sources.

LIFE FOR TERRORIST IN GEORGIA

A year ago Giorgy Zaseyev (UID 338600) was arrested in South Ossetia in Georgia. Reports state that he confessed to blowing up a car, which killed three and injured a further 23 near the police building in Gori. In July he was sentenced together with his two accomplices to life imprisonment for this act of terror.