Joe9T Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 Lot of Indian ones for some reason... could he be of indian origin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danot Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 This beggars belief An Austrian multi-millionaire has claimed that he has been promised 372,000 pounds in taxpayer-funded compensation for not being given a comb or 'decent' underwear during his stay at Pentonville Prison in north London for six days. The UK's Serious Fraud Office had questioned Count Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly over allegations of bribery and corruption at aerospace company BAE. But as he complained of not being given these basic amenities in cell, he was awarded the payout from the Government's Central Funds as soon as the SFO discontinued its inquiries, deciding that it was 'no longer in the public interest to continue the investigation into the conduct of individuals'. "I would have stayed four weeks had I known that," the Daily Express quoted Mensdorff-Pouilly as telling an Austrian magazine jokingly on hearing about his compensation. (ANI) What is happening to common sense?:confused: Sounds like a money laundering stunt to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe9T Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 Count Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly has also been accused of bribing government officials! The Count and The White Sultan: Viennese count arrested amid bribery probe at BAE Systems Count Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, 55, a consultant for BAE Systems, was travelling from his Perthshire home - Dalnaglar Castle in Glenshee - to Austria when he was held. After his arrest, Mensdorff-Pouilly went with investigators to Carlisle, where the SFO have jurisdiction, with his chauffeur-driven car following behind. As part of the probe, investigators raided his castle - where guests pay £250 a night - as well as three homes in London. Addresses in Hungary and Austria were also raided. The count's wife, Maria Rauch-Kallat, was secretary-general of the Austrian People's Party from 1995 through 2003. Mensdorff-Pouilly (c'mon, admit it: you love saying that name) was brought into the BAE deal by another character straight out of Ian Fleming: the late Timothy Landon, sometimes known as "The White Sultan." Landon was perhaps the premier arms dealer in the Middle East, a longtime friend with the Sultan of Oman who helped his friend ascend to the throne of the oil-rich emirate in a bloodless coup in 1970. Landon was, after all, a man whose murky fortune was created from a conflict in which he helped the current Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Sa'id, seize power from his own father in a coup surreptitiously orchestrated by the British government. He was a lifelong adventurer and arms dealer who filled his coffers through a close friendship with the secretive Arabian dictator, and later became a crucial strategic link between the UK and the Arab world . . . Earlier this year [2007] Landon was named as a key figure in the BAE Systems affair, allegedly passing money to an Austrian aristocrat to ease an arms deal between the firm and the Czech government. The sale is being investigated in three European countries. Questions have been raised in the Hungarian parliament over Landon's international business activities. He is alleged to have been involved in arms deals to dubious regimes over several decades, and has been accused of breaking oil embargos to South Africa and Rhodesia. He owned his own secretive hamlet in Hampshire and was at one time reported to be richer than the Queen herself. Landon died in 2007 of lung cancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe9T Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 http://www.whatsonshenzhen.com/news-309-austrian-billionaire-alfons-mensdorff-pouilly-wins-pound-372k-for-wrongful-imprisonment-in-uk.html (And a photo of him too) Austrian billionaire Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly wins £372K for wrongful imprisonment in UK Updated: 28 May 2011 A BILLIONAIRE Austrian toff held in a British jail for six days won £372,000 compensation - then complained he was not given a COMB. Count Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly successfully sued prison authorities for wrongful imprisonment. Once back home, he moaned: "I wasn't given decent underwear despite having asked for it several times. "And they didn't give me a comb. Human rights are not respected in custody in England - in contrast to Austria, where things happen in a correct way." The 57-year-old businessman, who has a Scottish castle, shamelessly admitted he would happily have stayed FOUR WEEKS in jail if he knew how much taxpayers' cash he would get out of it. He was in custody in London last year during a police probe into corruption in international arms deals. The agent for BAE systems was accused of bribery to win fighter jet contracts. Those charges were dropped but he is fighting corruption claims in Austria. SOURCE: the sun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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