Topic: Crime Unit

BASRA, Iraq, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Seven Iraqi police officers were arrested Friday in Basra by British troops on suspicion of corruption and operating a death squad. The operation, which allegedly involved more than 1,000 coalition troops backed by tanks, was the first stage of a plan to

NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 14 (UPI) --

LONDON, July 24 (UPI) -- The British government has announced a plan for fraud prosecution, including longer prison sentences and a plea bargaining program. The government said the plan was written as a tactic to fight the growing number of high-finance fraud cases in the country

BURGAS, Bulgaria, July 18 (UPI) --

NAPERVILLE, Ill., June 11 (UPI) -- Police in Naperville, Ill., arrested a man accused of soliciting sex with a 14-year-old girl on the Web site Myspace.com, the Chicago Tribune reported Sunday.

WASHINGTON, May 10 (UPI) --

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LONDON, March 17 (UPI) --

KIEV, Ukraine, March 1 (UPI) -- The severed head of assassinated Ukrainian dissident journalist Georgi Gongadze was found in a Kiev creek Tuesday, the Russian Interfax news agency reported. Gongadze disappeared Sept. 16, 2000, and the following November, a headless body was found in the

SINGAPORE, Dec. 7 (UPI) --