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Palm oil firm accused of hiring men to kidnap smog inspectors in Indonesia

2016-09-06 10:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Up to 100 Indonesian men, believed to have been hired by a palm oil firm, took a team of official environmental investigators hostage on Friday and threatened to burn them alive, Indonesias environment ministry has said. The government team of seven were documenting illegal forest fires, which are often set ablaze deliberately by agriculture firms to clear land for replanting during the dry season. The ministry of environment and forestry said its team was held overnight until Saturday morning...

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French tax inspectors raid Google's Paris office

2016-05-24 18:06:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) French financial crimes officers raided Google's Paris offices on 24 May as part of an ongoing tax fraud investigation. Le Parisien writes that over 100 civil servants from the tax office and anti-fraud brigade descended on the premises, including 25 IT specialists and five financial magistrates. The authorities' probe into Google's tax affairs began in June 2015 on suspicion of "aggravated tax fraud and organised money laundering" related to Google Europe's local subsidiary failing to pay its fair share of taxes in France.

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Agents accused of avoiding 'thorough' building inspectors to push through sales

2016-04-03 08:04:57| Real Estate - Topix.net

The Building Officials Institute of New Zealand claims it hears of up to three cases a month where agents steer vendors away from accredited building inspectors. Up to three quarters of homes sold in the heated Wellington market are now going through with vendors supplying a building report, a Harcourts manager has estimated.

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Inspectors: Pool safe, fire code issues a concern

2015-09-24 06:28:30| Grocery - Topix.net

Regardless, the school division's swim team needs a new place to practice after Superintendent Jeremy Raley said he found problems with the pool at Signal Knob Recreation Center, 35 Brandy Court, Strasburg. Raley advised the Board of Supervisors about the situation during a report Tuesday.

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