Fifteen years' jail for fraudster

Read the full story at the Sydney Morning Herald

Fifteen years' jail for fraudster's $45 million luxury shopping spree

Paul Bibby

February 10, 2012 - 12:21PM

Rajina Subramaniam ... defrauded her employer of $45 million. Photo: Janie Barrett

A Sydney housewife who stole $45 million from a major finance company then went on a massive shopping spree has been sentenced to 15 years' jail.
Over the course of five years, Rajina Subramaniam, in her role as a senior accountant with ING Holdings siphoned the money out of the company's accounts in the largest case of fraud by an individual woman in Australia's history.

Homeland Security Is Monitoring The Drudge Report

Adam Clark Estes 290,844 Views Jan 11, 2012

It's unclear exactly why, but the Department of Homeland has been operating a "Social Networking/Media Capability" program to monitor the top blogs, forums and social networks online for at least the past 18 months. Based on a privacy compliance review from last November recently obtained by Reuters, the purpose of the project is to "collect information used in providing situational awareness and establishing a common operating picture." Whatever that means. Either way, the list of sites reported by Reuters reveals in a Wednesday afternooon exclusive 

Read more at the Atlantic Wire

: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/01/homeland-security-monitoring-drudge-report-new-york-times/47300/

Mafia is now Italy's 'biggest bank'

 'Ndrangheta: This 19th century syndicate from the Calabria region is considered to be one of the most powerful criminal organisations in the world - with a remarkable ability to migrate to other countries, including Argentina, the Netherlands and Australia.
  Organised crime is the biggest earner in Italy - with a turnover of more £100 billion a year - according to a report by business chiefs. 
Extortion and intimidation is used to extract millions from shopkeepers, restaurants, cinemas, construction companies and thousands of other businesses as the godfathers spread their criminal enterprises across the whole of the country.
As a result of the ongoing economic crisis the Mafia is also cashing in with its traditional money-raising means of loan sharking - charging extortionate interest rates to hard-pressed businesses who are unable to raise funds

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085209/Mafia-Italys-No-1-bank-profits-100bn-year.html

Is Your Phone Bugged?

Today's 'buggers' are so sophisticated that is almost impossible for the ordinary citizen to detect.
Monte's Investigations have the most sophisticated equipment to detect whether rooms, telephones and mobile telephones are bugged or compromised. We use detection equipment only available to law enforcement agencies.

However this short video explores ways to determine if your cell phone has been compromised by some of the equipment available from places like Ebay. While it's obviously unlikely that this would happen to most people.

Be warned though- simple bugging devices can backfire badly when not used by a  professional and can leave the bugger open to be traced. It is illegal in most countries to bug devices.

The Spying Game-My Extraordinary Life

They say the truth always comes out and I believe there is much much more to come over the Mafia murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace.

This was exposed by Frank Monte in his above book. Monte was sued by the Versace family in 2003 in one of the most extraordinary cases in Australian legal history and the original book had to be pulped and re-written.

Now highly respected Italian investigative writer Gianiluigi Nuzzi has confirmed Frank Monte was telling the truth We recommend reading both books for one of the most fascinating stories of the decade.

 Further reading here : 

 http://www.thesocialshuttle.com/2011/03/and-how-is-versace-empire-these-days.html

Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited, 2001 - 314 pages

Autobiography of international private investigator Frank Monte. Recounts his employment by Aristotle Onassis, recruiting and running a private army for the Sheikh of Dubai, travelling through the crocodile-infested estuaries of West Papua to solve the mystery of the death and disappearance of Michael Rockefeller, and his claimed involvement in the investigation into the murder of Gianni Versace. Includes photographs. Book was withdrawn from sale after members of the Versace family claimed it defamed them.

 read Google's review of this book.

Was Gianni Versace murdered by the mob?

 By Andrew Malone and Nick Pisa

• Strolling in the Miami sunshine with the latest fashion magazines tucked under his arm, Gianni Versace appeared unusually relaxed. 

Having learned his ear cancer was in remission and that a recent Aids test was negative, the notoriously hot-tempered gay Italian designer was happier than he had been for years.
But Versace, then 50, was never to enjoy another day. On his return home, as he fiddled with the lock on the front gates of his palatial, art deco mansion, a stranger in a white shirt and grey shorts approached — and gunned him down with two close-range shots to the head and neck.

Read the full story now at the MailOnline.

Frank Monte : Investigator: The Spying Game

Frank Monte : Investigator: The Spying Game: My Extraordinary Life as a Private Investigator. by FRANK MONTE © 2003. rrp $32.95 This is the most famous and legally important book in t...