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...SENTENCED. FRIEDRICH ENGEL, 93, former Nazi SS officer dubbed the "Butcher of Genoa," to seven years in jail for ordering the massacre of 59 prisoners in Italy during World War II; in Hamburg. In his defense, Engel insisted he was only following Hitler's instructions...
...company's Indonesian operations previously held by Mohamad ("Bob") Hasan, a confidant of former President Suharto. Indeed, the issue of the shares came up soon after the Freeport executive boarded the presidential C-130 aircraft carrying Taufik and a 40-member entourage. With Hasan serving a lengthy jail sentence for corruption, the executive was told, the 4.7% stake in PT Freeport Indonesia was in limbo. As a committed nationalist, Taufik told the executive, he?and the President?felt it would be best if the stake remained in Indonesian hands. The executive smiled politely, sources close to the company say, then...
...When Taufik and Megawati married in 1973, he was penniless and newly released from a seven-year jail term imposed for his pro-Sukarno political activism as a student. Taufik worked his way up from selling kerosene door-to-door to owning nine gas stations that, he says, remain his chief source of income, netting him about $100,000 a month. Under transparency laws passed after Suharto's ouster, the couple made an obligatory declaration of their assets, which totaled some $6 million...
...Asahara, now 47, has spent the past seven years in a Tokyo jail cell. In court one day recently, facing murder charges in connection with, among other crimes, the gas attack, he bobs his head up and down, looking tired and confused. His hair, once wild and frizzy, is now cut short, his Rasputin-like beard trimmed respectably. Every move he makes is closely watched by his remaining disciples?wide-eyed men and women who flock to the courtroom to bask in the aura of the man they still consider their spiritual father. "He never did what you expected...
...book First Directorate, which he co-wrote with a U.S. journalist. Kalugin, who lives in Washington D.C., ran the KGB external counterintelligence section in the late 1970s and then sided with the democratic movement in Russia in the late 1980s. RELEASED. LAI CHANGXING, alleged Chinese smuggler, from a Canadian jail; in Vancouver. Lai, who is now under house arrest, has been fighting to remain in Canada as a political refugee since he fled China in 1999. He had been jailed following a decision by Canadian immigration officials to deny him refugee status, saying he was trying to avoid Chinese prosecution...