Archive for April 7th, 2009
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Four finance centers blacklisted last Thursday in a renewed crackdown on tax fraud were taken off the list on Tuesday after committing to international standards on bank information disclosure.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said that it was moving Uruguay, Costa Rica, Malaysia and the Philippines to a grey list of offenders that say they will put things right, a long list that includes major finance centers such as Switzerland.
The OECD published three lists last Thursday in response to a request from world leaders looking for ways to tighten up on financial regulation at a G20 summit in London the same day.
It put just four on the blacklist, more than 30 on the grey list of repentants and about 40 countries on a white list of places where the authorities are considered fully committed to international standards of information exchange. (more…)
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Tom Brady stats’s agent says security guards patrolling Gisele Bundchen’s compound claim to know nothing about a shot that barely missed two photographers, but police in Costa Rica yesterday launched a “full investigation” into the wedding-day gunfire.
“I have no knowledge of the events being described,” the usually elusive Don Yee told the Associated Press. “Additionally, security personnel have reported they do not have any knowledge of such an event. Given this, I have no other comment.”
But Mario Sanchez of Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Agency told People that a report was filed on the incident and an investigation is set to begin.
Sanchez said authorities will bring charges against the security guards if the evidence is solid. He added that Brady and Bundchen likely would not be held responsible for any actions by their guards. Still, police hope to interview everyone who was present the night of the incident, the magazine said. (more…)
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
A bail hearing is scheduled today for a man charged with kidnapping his son and taking him to Latin America.
David Albanese, 28, was arrested in July in Costa Rica by authorities acting on a warrant that Acushnet police obtained in September 2006, charging him with kidnapping a minor by a relative.
Acting on the advice of Costa Rican lawyers, Albanese fought — unsuccessfully — efforts to extradite him to Massachusetts. U.S. marshals transported him last Friday to Logan Airport in Boston. He was arraigned Monday in New Bedford District Court. (more…)
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