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Anonymous ID: 604f67 March 31, 2019, 6:11 p.m. No.5997808   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7867 >>7888 >>7990 >>8203 >>8377 >>8404 >>8496 >>8505

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Natalia Fileva dead: One of Russia's richest women killed in private jet crash

 

One of the richest women in Russia has been killed in a private jet crash along with the pilot and another passenger.

 

Natalia Fileva, chairwoman and co-owner of Russia's second largest airline S7, died in the tragedy earlier today near Frankfurt, the company said.

 

The jet crashed and caught fire when it was landing at Egelsbach Airport. All three on board were killed.

 

Two others aged 22 and 24 also died in a car crash involving a police car which was on its way to the scene, according to German police and website Bild.

 

Three officers were seriously injured and taken to hospital.

 

A police spokesman confirmed the six-seater aircraft was en route from France when it came down near Egelsbach and caught fire.

 

Pictures from the scene show debris everywhere and the jet completely destroyed.

 

Photos also show several crushed cars from the collision nearby.

 

Russian and international authorities have launched an investigation.

 

According to witnesses, police said they heard a plane with stuttering engine noise, website Bild reported.

 

The private jet was flying from Cannes in France and disappeared from radars at 1.22GMT, data from a flight tracker Flighradar24 states.

 

There is no information yet on what caused the crash, said S7, Russia's second-largest airline after Aeroflot.

 

Natalia, 55, was last year estimated by Forbes to be worth $600 million. It is understood she has three children.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/natalia-fileva-dead-one-of-russias-richest-women-killed-in-private-jet-crash/ar-BBVsJrI?li=BBqdmGR

Anonymous ID: 604f67 March 31, 2019, 6:18 p.m. No.5997916   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7990 >>8203 >>8404 >>8496 >>8505

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£80m of British taxpayers' money 'funnelled to al-Qaeda' in decades-long scam

 

Tens of millions of pounds of British taxpayers’ money was used to fund terrorists including the 7/7 London bombing network and Osama bin Laden through a UK-based scam that spanned two decades.

 

A two-year investigation by The Sunday Times revealed that a network of British Asians stole billions of pounds of public money through VAT and benefit fraud, topping up their gains with mortgage and credit card fraud.

 

One per cent on the group’s gains, a full £80m (NZ$ 153m), was allegedly funnelled into al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, with funds reaching the Pakistani compound stormed by US special forces in the 2011 operation to kill Bin Laden.

 

The scale of the scam is breathtaking: the group netted around £8bn in public funds alone – almost triple the annual government expenditure on MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.

 

A web of secrecy still binds this investigation, which was led by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and Special Branch, and prevents the story from being told in full.

 

At least two years before the 7/7 attacks, HMRC identified ties between the gang defrauding the British public and Shehzad Tanweer, one of the terrorists involved. At the time, senior HMRC officials declined to use their intelligence to mount prosecutions and the gang.

 

Court orders barring the identification of gang members convicted of fraud date back at least 10 years, and one customs official has claimed they were prevented from sharing intelligence with MI5 due to HMRC’s desire to keep tax records confidential.

 

Following the money led investigators to successfully charge mid-ranking gang members with fraud and money laundering, leading to jail terms of more than 100 years for crimes that cost the taxpayer £100m.

 

So far, no gang member has faced any terror charges.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/%c2%a380m-of-british-taxpayers-money-funnelled-to-al-qaeda-in-decades-long-scam/ar-BBVsWXQ