Estonian hitman Imre Arakas - I am not a criminal

Estonian hitman Imre Arakas gave evidence via video link from prison to a murder trial in Lithuanian last year. He is charged with killing a drug dealer. The 63 year old is serving a 6.5 year sentence over a plot to murder James ‘Mago’ Gately, part of the Kinahan-Hutch feud. Gately was a prime target for the Kinahan faction with a €500k bounty on his head. Gately was believed to be involved in the Regency Hotel attack. Arakas flew into Dublin from Spain in April, 2017 to kill Gately but was busted by gardai before he got his chance. When the Arakas plot was foiled, the cartel wasted no time in arranging another. 'Mr Flashy' assassin Caolan Smyth was caged for 20 years for his attempted hit of Gately.

Caolan Smyth was arrested after the attack on James 'Mago' Gately who was shot five times in 2017 but survived. 4 of the 5 shots hit a bulletproof vest he was wearing. Seven men with links to the Kinahan cartel are now behind bars for plots to kill Gately.

British Virgin Islands premier busted for cocaine in US sting - update III

Legislators voted to remove disgraced premier Andrew Fahie and install his former deputy, Natalio Wheatley. This came as Fahie was granted $500k bail in Miami, a decision that was immediately appealed. Andrew Fahie had demanded his immediate release from US custody, claiming he is immune from prosecution on drug trafficking charges because he is an elected, constitutional head of government.

Andrew Fahie, the premier of the British Virgin Islands, was busted in a sting in Miami on charges of conspiring to import cocaine and money laundering.

Britain is poised to impose a form of direct rule over the British Virgin Islands after the territory’s premier was arrested. Hours before his court appearance in Miami, a commission of inquiry – launched in 2021 – reported on widespread abuses, including millions disappearing. The commission recommended that the territory have its constitution suspended, its elected government dissolved and be ruled from London.

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Oleanvine Maynard, the manager director of the port authority, and her son Kadeem were also detained.

DEA agents posed as members of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. In exchange for bribes and 10% ($7.8m) — for each 3,000-kilogram load of cocaine sold in Miami, Fahie and his co-defendants allegedly agreed to provide safe passage for the drugs and a network of shell companies to launder proceeds.

“Oh, no no no, not my first rodeo at all, NOT, MY FIRST RODEO, AT ALL,” Fahie can be heard laughing in a recording.

Mob loan shark charges 'a misunderstanding' - lawyer

Convicted Springfield mob loan shark Rex Cunningham, 71, is a long time associate of the Genovese crime family. He pleaded not guilty to threatening to kill a man over a $600 debt to Cunningham’s girlfriend. Cunningham is also charged with extortion and witness intimidation. His lawyer describes the charges as a 'misunderstanding'. Cunningham was sunk when the victim recorded the exchange on his cell phone: “I’m Tammy’s husband. Good to meet you, now let’s get a few things straight here. You stop being a fucking wise guy. You be disrespectful to these girls again I’ll break every bone in your fucking body. You call the cops, you call whoever the fuck you want and that’s what’s going to happen to you. Don’t say a word. I’ll take your fucking head off right here.”

Cunningham spent 17 years in federal prison for breaking a man’s arm in the early 1990s over a loan shark debt. Recently he served a year in jail for running a loan sharking and illegal gaming ring out of two Irish bars he operated.

ex-B.C. lawyer Fred Sharp charged by SEC, FBI - $52.9m

Five years after he was exposed as a major Canadian player in the "Panama Papers" offshore finance scandal, Fred Sharp is now facing prosecution in the US. He had his assets frozen by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and has an arrest warrant outstanding. The offshore shell facilitator was handed a US$52.9m judgment for fraud. Sharp nicknamed himself "Bond". He is one of six BC residents charged with violating anti-fraud provisions of the U.S. Securities Act. Zhiying Gasarch, Courtney Kelln, Mike Veldhuis, Jackson Friesen, Paul Sexton and Avtar Singh Dhillon are the others.

Vancouver doctor turned stock promoter Avtar Dhillon was busted for his involvement in a $1 billion international stock fraud. In August 2021 he was arrested in Long Beach in his $12m, 9,300-square-foot, home.

In 2011, Dhillon founded pharmaceutical company Vitality Biopharma Inc. Trading in Vitality was halted in November 2018. He stepped down as the chairman, but not before the "Sharp Group" booked $16.6m in ill gained profits ... including $2.6m to Dhillon. Dhillon concealed ownership of Arch Therapeutics and OncoSec Medical Inc. Both were microcap biotechnology companies he chaired between March 2011 and April 2020.

Dhillon made false representations for millions of beneficially owned shares by putting them in two shell companies. They then reportedly had another law firm provide a legal opinion to a broker that the shares could be deposited into a brokerage account without trading restrictions.

Sharp's company, Corporate House, created more than 1,200 corporate entities, making him the most significant Canadian player in the Panama Papers leak. Sharp and his cohorts could face up to 20 years in prison, plus five years for the conspiracy charges. https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2021/comp-pr2021-148.pdf

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Swiss police seize 500kg of cocaine at Nespresso factory

Swiss police have seized more than 500kg of 80% pure cocaine from a shipment of coffee beans delivered to a Nespresso plant. Workers at the plant in Romont, Fribourg, alerted authorities to a white powder found in sacks of coffee beans. The coffee capsule maker is owned by Swiss food giant Nestlé.

3rd Spilotro brother dies

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Patrick Spilotro has died at age 85. He was the older brother to a pair of infamous Chicago mobsters who met their end in an Indiana cornfield in 1986.

'Albanian Gangster’ actor enlisted Genovese mobsters to collect debt

A Queens bookie who once acted in a movie called 'Albanian Gangster' was arrested along with two Genovese mobsters he allegedly hired to collect a debt. The trio, including an 84-year-old Genovese capo, was charged for the extortion scheme against an Italian restaurant owner. Luan Bexheti, 49, soldier Joseph Celso, 49, and greyhair wiseguy Anthony 'Rom' Romanello are in the chit.

‘Jack-in-the-box’ dooms Russian tanks - Update

Russian tank turrets get blown off with regularity and the reason is a design flaw known as the “jack-in-the-box”. The fault is related to the way Russian tanks hold and load ammunition. In these tanks, including the T-72, shells are all placed in an autoloading ring. When an enemy shot hits, the ring of ammunition “cooks off” and ignites a chain reaction, blasting the turret off the tank’s hull and vapourizing the tankers. With up to 40 shells if fully loaded, the Russian tanks will blow their tops with extreme gusto every time.

The blogsite ORYX lists Russian APC losses at 3340, of which 1803 have been destroyed, 59 damaged, 266 abandoned and 1212 captured. The site lists 600 Russian tanks with 312 destroyed, 17 damaged, 49 abandoned, and 222 captured. As many as 25,000 Russian soldiers have been killed so far, roughly 1 man in 4 of the invading army.

Jamie Bacon accuses bikers of being fags, rats

'These guys are all goofs. They all play all sides of the game. Almost every biker is working with the police. OK. I've seen it bro,' said Jamie Bacon. “I’ve learned through this that the game is fake bro. It’s all a lie,” Bacon said. He refers several times to his brother’s associates plotting against him. Jonathan Bacon had just formed an alliance with key Hells Angels and some Independent Soldiers when he was whacked in 2011. In the recording, Jamie Bacon condemns gangsters in the alliance, as well as the HAMC and its affiliated Brothers Keepers, calling them hindus and fags. Bacon said that he hasn’t ratted yet but “these thoughts have come in my head in a real way the last couple of months knowing the truth of this life, knowing the truth of these scumbags.” Bacon was first arrested and caged in April 2009.

8kg of cocaine buys Winston-Salem man long time

Daluis Alejandro Javier Guzman was found guilty by a Forsyth County jury on a slew of drug charges, including conspiring to traffic in cocaine. Guzman goes away via three consecutive sentences totaling a minimum of 29 years, 8 months. The maximum is 38 years, 5 months in prison. Cops intercepted cellphones for Guzman and others and had him cold.