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...trading arm, SK Global, uncovered a multimillion-dollar political slush fund and bank accounts linked to both Roh's campaign and those of the opposition Grand National Party (GNP), the probe is unprecedented in scope and scale. Political pundits are comparing the dragnet to Italy's "Clean Hands" crackdown of the early 1990s, when reform-minded investigators sent hundreds of businessmen, bureaucrats and prominent politicians to jail. GNP members are also under investigation: GNP lawmaker Choi Don Woong has already admitted to taking $8.3 million from...
...merger with Yukos was on hold. So why is Putin anxious? Because the Yukos affair has destroyed the balance of power between the associates of former President Boris Yeltsin - known as the Family - and the siloviki, the law- enforcement and security officials who are close to Putin. The Khodorkovsky crackdown split the Kremlin, pushing Putin even closer to the siloviki and unnerving the Family. One key figure associated with the Family, the head of the presidential administration, Alexander Voloshin, resigned a few days after Khodorkovsky's arrest. Another, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, is so disaffected that his departure is only...
...suicide bombings of British targets in Istanbul trigger a Europe-wide crackdown? Eleven terror suspects were taken into custody in Western Europe last week - three in Italy, seven in Britain, and one in Germany - as a top Italian antiterror official told time that terror groups "are trying to move closer to [striking in] European territory." Security agencies were on high alert; Italian officials even discussed closing the Rome and Milan metros in the final 48 hours of Ramadan. But authorities say last week's arrests were the culmination of long investigations, not hasty responses to the Istanbul blasts. And some...
...Qaeda, meanwhile, has taken measures to counter the government's crackdown, which began after terrorists struck a Riyadh housing complex on May 12, killing 34 people. A CD found with radical Islamists in Saudi Arabia shortly before the al-Muhaya bombing and provided to TIME by French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard shows four Saudi jihadists praising bin Laden and warning infidels, "We will not let you live safely." They go on to tout an "impending act" that, they suggest, they won't survive. Intelligence sources tell Jacquard that the four participated in the May bombing. The CD also features...
...Number of Chinese gangs disbursed in a three-year crackdown by security forces. The government says it arrested 100,000 people, confiscated 15,000 firearms and $64 million in illegal assets...