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...SPORTS AUTHORITIES Can We Play Too? Who was conspicuously absent at preparations for last weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix? The fledgling Phoenix racing team, which was barred from participating by FIA, Formula One's ruling body. FIA told Phoenix, which came into being after purchasing certain assets from the now-defunct Prost team for a reported $3.5 million, that its entry was invalid because the group had not bought the "right to compete." The cost for Phoenix to qualify in time for the next Formula One season? $48 million. No such participatory problems for Mike Tyson. In spite...
...What moviemakers fear most is how lucrative and easy video trafficking could become on the Net. Movie88's Tan, who TIME tracked down through a Malaysian cell phone number, says he is the chief technology officer of Eternity Italy Ltd., a virtual company registered in the British Virgin Islands that is the holding firm for Movie88. Tan?identified by Taiwanese police as Tan Soo Leong?says he created a vast film library by copying DVDs to his computers. "I can get great movies in L.A.," he says, "Hollywood Video, Blockbuster. 20/20 has a very good, very complete collection...
...Italy Ltd., a "virtual company" registered in the British Virgin Islands ("because it is tax free"), which is the holding company for Movie88. "We don't have an office and an address," he says. "As long as we have people and computers, we can do it." Reached via a Malaysian cell-phone number, Tan says he's an ethnic Chinese in his early 30s who travels a lot and created his vast movie collection by copying DVDs. "I can get great movies in L.A.," he says. "Hollywood Video, Blockbuster. 20/20 has a very good, very complete collection." His site loses...
...says "Tan" (or Chen, depending on pronunciation) is actually a 39-year-old Malaysian lawyer who visits Taiwan every month, and vows to arrest him - and a second suspect named Yeh - the next time he sets foot in Taipei. But since TIME's story, the policeman isn't expecting to see the Internet buccaneer any time soon...
...know why. He had been working hard, perhaps harder than usual... At the end of trading that [last] day, Leeson gathered up his notes,walked off the floor and began his getaway. By 11:30 that night, he was out of Singapore, checking into a hotel in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, 200 miles to the north. At 7 a.m. [the next day], his wife reportedly jumped into a cab and headed for the airport. In his wake lay a venerable 232-year-old British banking empire rendered suddenly and irretrievably insolvent; half the financial world was reeling...