More than a dozen people are expected to be charged following the pre-dawn arrests Thursday in Switzerland in the wide-ranging corruption probe of FIFA, soccer’s multibillion-dollar governing body.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who ordered the kidnapping, torture and killing of DEA agent Enrique Camarena in 1985, has stashed billion of dollars in secret overseas accounts, an ex-DEA agent claims. “Caro Quintero had billions of dollars stashed in secret bank accounts in Luxembourg and in Switzerland,” former DEA agent…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal agents remember the “Nagra,”, the first portable professional sound recorder. Well, the inventor of the system, Stefan Kudelski, has died at age 84, according to swissinfo.ch, the website for the Swiss Broadcasting company. The Kudelski Group in Switzerland made the announcement. One former federal official told ticklethewire.com that it was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The long protracted legal battle for famous film director Roman Polanski appears to be over– at least as far as the Swiss are concerned. The Los Angeles Times reports that the Swiss authorities said Polanski, 76, will not be extradited to the United States to face sentencing in a 30-year-old incident…
