I hope that this does not happen before a GRNO defendant testifies..
Riley G
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Mafia informer, innocent bystanders killed by bomb blast
Tamas Boros, Hungarian restaurateur, night-club owner and mafia figure, was
killed last week when a powerful car bomb exploded in Budapest's Vaci Street
tourist and shopping district. The remote-controlled bomb, estimated by
police to contain 20 sticks of dynamite, was set off shortly before noon on
Thursday, July 2 and killed three bystanders. Dozens more were injured by
the blast. The target of the bomb, Boros, had been providing Hungarian
police with information on mobsters including Semion Mogilevich, one of the
founding interests of YBM Magnex and a current YBM shareholder. The now-dead
informant had reportedly provided authorities with details of Mogilevich's
loan interest in an automobile trading company and had been particularly
helpful to investigators probing the theft of large quantities of petroleum
in a fraud known as the Energol case. (Diesel oil and other grades of
petroleum products are primary commodities in the mafia-controlled black
markets and smuggling rackets of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union.) Budapest's chief of police, Attila Berta, told Reuters: "After
Boros's death, the police do not have any more witnesses who knew so much
about the underworld, its entertainment industry or who would have an
interest in oil." In the past 18 months turf wars have broken out in Hungary
between rival criminal gangs and there have been over 150 bombings and
firebombings. Last week's deadly blast was the first to claim the lives of
innocent bystanders. |
