An Austrian businessman has been sentenced for selling luxury goods to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il for more than 20 years.Judges at the Criminal Court of Vienna yesterday (Mon) found the entrepreneur guilty of having breached the international trade embargo issued on the dictatorial regime.The defendant sold eight Mercedes-Benz S-Class limousines and two yachts worth […]
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A Bosnian businessmans apartment in Vienna was stormed by a special police unit amid claims the man was fugitive war criminal Ratko Mladic.Bosnian newspapers reported that Avdo S., who settled in Austria 18 years ago, was woken up from his afternoon nap by a heavily armed police last weekend.Now Rudolf Gollia, a spokesman for the […]
A young woman from Salzburg coughed up thousands of Euros for a cat she was supposed to receive for free, it has emerged.The Thalgau resident transferred more than 22,000 Euros to anonymous businessman after having received a response to her online ad.The crooks offered a British Shorthair from Cameroon, but told the woman she must […]
Bulgarian police have arrested four people suspected of planning to abduct an Austrian entrepreneur.Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party announced today (Fri) the gang neutralised by a special police force in federal capital Sofia consisted of three men and one woman.The minister added that […]
Alarm bells are ringing at petrol stations across Vienna as a canny Salzburg businessman is reported to have plans to open a budget station later this month.Business dailies report today (Thurs) Markus Friesacher considered taking his Salzburg success story to the federal capital. The entrepreneurs Hofer stations caused a stir and kilometre-long tailbacks […]