Another Sport/crime story. Why do they all come along together? Goalkeeper at Den Haag done for running cannabis factory, money laundering and forgery.

The Moscow region police have returned a book on corruption in the region to the publisher after the Deputy Governor tried to have it banned for libel. Where’s Justice Eady when you need him? The link takes you to the original Russian article as the Moscow Times piece is very brief indeed. the publisher runs … МИЛИЦИЯ ВЕРНУЛА ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВУ ИЗЪЯТЫЕ КНИГИ “КОРПОРАЦИЯ ПОДМОСКОВЬЕ”

You can always trust the police…to sell any data they may gather. Moscow Times story about what you can buy in the Savlyovsky market. Where’s Justice Eady when you need him?

Seems reasonable to me…It is with a meal, after all! This is the sort of story that the world can get really worked up about. You cant drive on a drink in most of Europe, but you can wield a baton!

Unbelievably, in the UK, paramilitary lunatics also support football and send bombs in the post to prominent people in their least favourite team. A form of terrorism not often studied…

2009-10…92,000 stopped under terrorism powers, only two people arrested. No wonder the European Court of Human Rights stopped the nonsense

High Court fires shot across police bows…Oi Ploddie!…Noooooo! Wont stop ’em though. No-one seems to understand that there is something wrong in a country where the police ignore the courts….Could it be cos the media pay the plods? See previous post.

The Metropolitan police have finally noticed what Rebekkah Brooks said to M.P.s in 2003. Chris Bryant, the MP at the centre of the questions asked, strangely had his leg broken in a charity rugby match at Twickenham this weekend…and was sent home without it being put in plaster by the Twickenham medical staff. Odd that….http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-13161075

see Panorama: the trillion dollar can man. 18th April 2011

Anyone at the Cambridge Symposium last year will remember my attempts to teach the Manhattan D.A.s office about cricket in order to introduce them to financial crime in sport. Here’s more about betting and corruption.