Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theft was discovered only one day before the women's away game against Dartmouth last night; it sent the team scrambling to replace several missing aluminum hockey sticks and a pair of gloves...
Reports of an underground trade in human organs have circulated in India for years, but claims of outright theft from living people had not been lodged before. When Velu's story hit the newspapers, the authorities acted. In New Delhi a long-pending national statute outlawing the sale of human organs from live donors was finally put into effect. In Bangalore police arrested Dr. K.S. Siddaraj, head of nephrology at the government-run Victoria Hospital. He was accused of having referred his poorer patients to private hospitals in the city as potential kidney donors and of receiving a 15% commission...
...accused face charges of theft, fraud and conspiracy; if convicted, they could be jailed for as long as 10 years. Siddaraj, who denied any involvement in the transplants, was released on $6,600 bail. The other suspects, still in custody, claim their actions were legal, as the villagers had agreed to sell their kidneys. In a Bangalore police station last week, Ahmed described his role as one of finding recipients in Saudi Arabia. He told Time, ``I thought that I was doing a service to kidney patients and that the government was earning foreign exchange. I was thinking of asking...
...fallen into ruin and public cynicism is pervasive. Over the past 15 months, 16 private banks have failed and been nationalized. The government has picked up the tab for $7 billion in losses, equivalent to 16% of last year's GDP. Charges of financial irresponsibility, corruption and outright theft are flying. Arrest warrants have been issued for more than 100 people in connection with the collapses, and dozens of financiers are believed to have fled the country. President Rafael Caldera has charged that the banking system has been systematically looted by ``a den of thieves.'' The debacle makes a strong...
...insists he is innocent and claims he is being targeted by Caldera, who, he says, is determined to punish the friends of his old foe Perez. Gomez Lopez says most of Banco Latino's losses can be attributed to the deteriorating economy, mismanagement and bad loans, not to theft and fraud. He was charged last week with embezzling public funds...