Our teacher was George Cardona – a man of unplaceable age and origin. ibid.
I ran away to a strange cold place – England. ibid.
We had pulled off the impossible – we made a movie. ibid.
He [George] was gone and so was Shirkers … George took everything. ibid.
She [wife] said George was dead. She also told me she had found 70 cans of film labelled Shirkers and that they were all in perfect condition. ibid.
Why would George keep everything from Shirkers? ibid.
The headline that grabbed everyone’s attention: a 60 year old bookeeper, just an ordinary guy, steals almost a million dollars. And he gets away with it. Someone who never broke a law in his life. Where did he go? For two years police wanted him, journalists tracked him: no-one could find him. We did … Kenya. The Fifth Estate: David Reiner: Disappearing Act, CBC 2008
If you’re gonna thieve, thieve from them that can afford it. Fox I: King Billy, Billy to boy in shop, Thames 1980
The Chinese state stands accused of stealing the West’s technology and business secrets through hacking and industrial espionage. There’s now serious concern about allowing China’s companies to invest in sensitive parts of British infrastructure. China: A New World Order III, BBC 2019
He could be president for the rest of his life. ibid.
Solar World launched legal action against the Chinese Government in Europe and in the United States … ‘Our company has been hacked.’ ibid.
A unit of the Chinese army was hacking Western businesses. ibid.
Details of the US government’s own computer hacking began to leak out. ibid.
The deal to allow Chinese involvement in Britain’s nuclear industry had been done when relations between China and the West were warm. But the temperature was rapidly dropping. ibid.
‘China’s outrageous theft of intellectual property.’ ibid.
His [Trump] victory paved the way for a trade war. ibid.
Despite China’s long history of hacking it was the first time the UK government had publicly blamed the Chinese state. ibid.
In February 2013 I started an investigation into illicit money flow coming into the United States. The money was coming into high-end real estate and it was coming through companies where the owners could be hidden. I decided to focus on the Time Warner centre. Storyville: The PM, the Playboy and the Wolf of Wall Street, BBC 2019
Riza Aziz … was running Red Granite Pictures … Riza Aziz was the stepson of the prime minister of Malaysia, and friends with them all … In September 2014 I wanted to see if Jho and Majin would meet up in New York … The Story of 1MDB and the Money Trail … ‘He came up with this idea to set up this investment fund called 1MDB; the trust fund that brings returns for the future of the people.’ ibid.
‘Why was 1MDB not subject to the same oversight as the rest of the companies?’ ibid. Brother of Najib
It came to my attention 1MDB had raised bonds, public debt with Goldman Sachs. Debt that the people of Malaysia would have to pay back. ibid.
I knew that there were documents that were available for sale that purported to show details of money moving between 1MDB and Jho Low. ibid.
‘$700 million had been taken from the fund under the guise of being sent to a joint venture with a Saudi Arabian oil company.’ ibid.
The best and the most expensive party Las Vegas had ever seen … Security, the foods, the drinks, the gifts, the stars, the celebrities – that must have cost $100 million. ibid.
‘A political slush fund.’ ibid.
Thou shalt not steal. Exodus 20:15
If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double. Exodus 22:3&4
Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found. Leviticus 6:4
If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you. Deuteronomy 24:7
Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. Proverbs 6:30&31
It is not for any prophet to embezzle. Whoso embezzleth will bring what he embezzled with him on the Day of Resurrection. Then every soul will be paid in full what it hath earned; and they will not be wronged. Koran 3:161
A troubled teenager. And talented thief. Across nine American states and three countries he stole of two million dollars’ worth of cars, boats and planes. For two years he eluded capture. But he caught the attention of legions of fans online. This is the tale of the Barefoot Bandit: Colton Harris-Moore’s flight into infamy. The Barefoot Bandit, 2015
A Cessna was reported stolen ... The plane was found crashed. ibid.
In December 2011 Colton Harris-Moore was sentenced to 87 months in prison. ibid.
A multi-million-dollar heist: $57 million worth of jewellery reported to be stolen from the London home of a Formula One racing heiress. Who Stole Tamara Ecclestone’s Diamonds? US news, BBC 2022
13 December 2019, Kensington, London 11.00 p.m.: The watches and the jewellery that was stolen was all excluded in the insurance policy. The total monetary value of everything that was stolen was just over £20 million. ibid. husband
Following an examination of CCTV material, we were able to identify the gang that flagged down a London black taxi to escape from the scene. ibid. rozzer
It was a massive city-wide investigation … We had identified the third in a series of offences. ibid. rozzers
In 2009 Vokovic was linked to other high profile celebrity burglaries in Milan. ibid. journalist
The alleged support cast have now been acquitted. Crown police have to make a case against the three men they have in custody. ibid.
11 years for him … [others] 8 years and 9 months. ibid. Brief
How safe is your car? The owners tracking down their own stolen vehicles. But are the thieves being caught? And what are the new ways we can protect our cars? Car Crime: How Safe is Your Car? ITV 2022
Just 5% of those car thefts result in anyone being charged. ibid.
They hang the man and flog the woman
They steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.
The law demands they we atone
When we take things we do not own,
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine. Nursery Rhyme @1764
This isn’t a film about war. This isn’t a film about Iraq. It’s a film about money. $23 billion wasted, stolen, embezzled or just lost down the back of a very big sofa in the desert … Will the whole truth about the profits of war ever come out? Panorama: Daylight Robbery, BBC 2008
Billions of dollars were being stacked on pallets and then flown to Iraq. ibid.
Iraq was a get-rich-quick opportunity that attracted some real chancers. ibid.
‘They are the essential war-profiteers. They make money out of chaos.’ ibid.
A war in which private contractors ended up outnumbering soldiers. ibid.
In Iraq most contracts were cost-plus. ibid.
There was of course something special about Halliburton, something controversial – Dick Cheney. ibid.
It’s the corporate excesses in Iraq that have angered those who expected better. ibid.
Pentagon audits found that Halliburton overcharged by $108 million for supplying and trucking fuel. ibid.
The funds that were stolen from 1MDB were used to fund Jho Low’ and his family’ and friends’ lavish lifestyle. Man on the Run, woman Netflix 2023
Between 2009 and 2018, a man name Low Taek Jho, better known to the world as Jho Low, stole upwards of $5 billion from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund called 1MDB. An international consortium of bankers, lawyers, accountants, politicians and celebrities aided and enabled his scheme. ibid. captions
Malaysian investigators scrutinizing a controversial government investment fund have traced nearly $700 million of deposits into what they believe are the personal bank accounts of Malaysian prime minister, Najib Razak, according to documents from a government probe. ibid. The Wall Street Journal 2 July 2018