Here’s the name I haven’t heard before – Paul Le Roux. He started off as an Open Source software developer, but quickly turned into one of, if not the largest cyber criminals.
Reply All podcast did an episode about him recently, and the story is mind-blowing.
The mention of Paul Le Roux trying to buy a submarine from the North Korea for his drug trafficking affairs reminded me of another crime documentary – Operation Odessa. Here’s the trailer to get you started.
In Cyprus runs the story covering some criminal statistics of European Union in general, and Cyprus in particular. Â There are some analysis to the numbers and some breakdown by type of crime and so on.
If you are visiting Cyprus on holiday, you can be reassured that Cyprus is the safest country in the EU – based on analysis of data from the EU’s statistical office, Eurostat.
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From the site, you can find out that there were 2.3 million crimes recorded in Spain in 2012 (the latest data), 4.4 million in the UK and just 8,000 crimes recorded in Cyprus in the same year.
The bit that caught my eye was the term “recorded crimes”.  As if decreasing the number of recordings is one of the ways to minimize crime rate…
10 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True – some I’ve heard about before, some are new to me. Â I’ll keep the list here for further reading and research.
Anybody who believes Ukrainian news is a moron. Â Anybody who believes Russian news is a moron. Â Anybody who believes European or American news is a double moron. Â All of them lie through their teeth and none of it makes any freaking sense. Â That’s where I stand.