In Brazil, police have issued 124 arrest warrants from people suspected of illegal logging in the Amazon Rainforest over the last 15 years. 89 people are arrested, many of them from government agencies (Planet Ark) (Reuters AlertNet) (BBC)
In the Maldives, parliament members support move to multi party democracy. Before the parliamentary debate, government arrested number of dissidents(Dhivehi Observer) (Reuters) (BBC)
Schabir Shaik, a financial advisor to South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma, is found guilty of two counts of corruption and one of fraud in a 165-page judgment broadcast live as it was delivered over three days. The affair is considered to be a blow to Mr Zuma's ambitions to succeed the current president, Thabo Mbeki. (BBC)
In Serbia several former soldiers are arrested after the transmission on Serbian TV of video showing them executing six Bosnian men from Srebrenica in July 1995. The video is evidence from the trial of former president Slobodan Milošević. Hitherto polls have shown that only half the population of Serbia believe that the Srebrenica massacre of 8000 men happened. (BBC)
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Washington, D.C., June2, 2005 — The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday filed securities fraud charges against Amerindo Investment Advisors, Inc., Alberto William Vilar and Gary Alan Tanaka, Amerindo’s co-founders and principals, for misappropriating at least $5 million from an Amerindo client.
The Commission’s complaint alleges that in approximately June 2002, Vilar solicited an Amerindo client and close personal friend to invest $5 million in the Amerindo Venture Fund LP, a limited partnership that was purportedly being organized to qualify and be operated as a Small Business Investment Company (SBIC).
On May 26, 2005, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York arrested Vilar and Tanaka.
Jun 2, 2005 - On March 13, 1986, the ESA probe, Giotto, had a close encounter - a close encounter with a visitor from the Oort cloud spewing 18 metric tons of gas every second and pouring 30 metric tons of dust from its nucleus.
Jun 2, 2005 - When astronomers started analyzing the recent gamma ray burst GRB050509b, they knew right away that they were seeing something very important.
Jun 2, 2005 - An international team of researchers have developed a computer program that simulates the growth and expansion of the Universe after the Big Bang, including the formation of galaxies, clusters and quasars.
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