UK returns stolen cash to Nigeria
526987
London's Metropolitan Police return some money seized from impeached Nigerian Governor Joshua Dariye.
565020
Six properties believed to have been bought with money stolen from pensioners are seized.
62015
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen kidnapped a three-year-old British girl in the Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt while she was on her way to school on Thursday morning, police said.
125475
(InfoWorld) - A gang of thieves stole computer chips reportedly worth millions of U.S. dollars in a Monday raid on an air cargo terminal in Batu Muang, Malaysia. "The incident occurred between 2.00 a.m and 3.30 a.m when the group, with weapons, forced its way into the [Penang International Airport Free Commercial Zone] facility after overpowering the personnel on duty at the Malaysia Airlines security checkpoint and the Royal Malaysian Customs office," Malaysia Airlines Cargo Sdn. Bhd. (MASkargo) said in a statement. Malaysian police are investigating the theft, MASkargo said. The gang of 20 thieves subdued 17 security guards using weapons and chloroform before stealing 585 cartons and 18 pallets of microchips and motherboards manufactured by a multinational company in Bayan Lepas, Malaysia, The Star newspaper reported Tuesday on its Web site. The stolen goods were estimated to be worth $12.7 million, making the theft the largest ever in Malaysia, it said. News reports in Malaysia have not named the multinational company that produced the chips. Several large companies, including Dell, Intel, and Advanced Micro Devices, have operations in Bayan Lepas, which is near Penang.
410038
A Briton was one of four foreign oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria on Friday, the Foreign Office confirms.
540784
A bank in Northern Ireland hit by a massive robbery this week is considering a drastic method of preventing the criminals enjoying their haul by taking all the types of notes seized out of circulation, it said.
359743
The suspended governor of a Nigerian state is questioned in the UK over allegations of money laundering involving Â£1m.
256320
Cash'n'Carrion Final clearance at Â£9 inc VAT and P&amp;P
418239
A Melbourne financial manager faces a hefty prison sentence after stealing AU$1m from his clients and handing it over to Nigerian advance fee fraudsters.
542022
Tax evaders could find their bank accounts raided directly by the Inland Revenue, under a government plan to get back some of the billions in annually lost payments.
227394
Police were on Tuesday night hunting a gang that stole an estimated Â£20m in one of the UK&#39;s biggest robberies. The money was taken from the headquarters of Northern Bank, close to Belfast City Hall, on Monday evening.
563449
A man who inadvertently left Â£1,200 in an item of clothing he gave to a charity shop is told the money has been banked.
664937
Investigators recovered one of the Land Rovers driven by the group A group of British embassy workers kidnapped in northern Ethiopia 12 days ago have been released, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has said.Comment
146859
Child benefit claimants not at risk, however HM Revenue and Customs has enhanced its international reputation for mislaying things by allowing 1.5kg of cocaine go walkabout from a HMRC depot near Coventry airport, the Sun reports.â¦
309943
As much as Â£20m may have been stolen in a raid at a bank's headquarters in Belfast, police say.
597045
Police in the North have confirmed that a total of Â£22m was taken in the raid on the Northern Bank in Belfast on Monday. However, the gang may find it extremely difficult to dispose of the proceeds of the
87021
UK businesses lost more than Â£40bn last year, about Â£100m a day, as a result of economic crime, a report finds.