Finding Ways not to Pay

The U.S. Rewards for Justice Program is fond of finding ways not to pay. It claims to have paid out $9.5 million to 23 tipsters in the last decade, but do the math. That comes to about two people per year who were paid. And most of the time some of the money is withheld, Geis [criminology professor at the University of California-Irvine] says, because the value of a tip leading to arrest and conviction is regarded as discretionary. "Rarely do you...

Basic Law of Rewards

The basic law on rewards is clear – they're contracts. You might not be familiar with this kind of contract, but it's not new. There are two kinds of contracts: bilateral (in which a promise is exchanged for a promise) and unilateral (in which a promise is exchanged for an act). A famous U.K. case involving a unilateral contract is Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. (1893). In that case the defendant offered a £100 reward to anyone who purchased and...

Rewards

What is Operation Game Thief?Operation Game Thief is a private, non-profit organization that works in cooperation with the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Warden Service which pays rewards, if requested, to citizens who turn in poachers or to individuals unlawfully introducing non-native fish species to lakes, ponds and streams of Maine. To report acts of poaching, you can call toll-free within Maine at 1-800-253-7887 ...

Reward 1 Million Euros

Belgrade, 10/13 - Serbia has offered a reward of 1m euros (£700,000; $1.4m) for information that leads to the arrest of either Ratko Mladic or Radovan Karadzic. The former Bosnian Serb leaders have been indicted for genocide by the UN War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague for their roles during the Bosnian w...

Nazi War Criminal Rewards

A notice posted on the Justice Ministry's Web site this week features photos and descriptions of Brunner and Heim and offers rewards for information leading to their capture. Brunner, the most-wanted Nazi war criminal, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, is described as having mutilated hands and only one eye, after reportedly being disfigured by mail bombs.Justice Minister Maria Berger, in an interview Friday with Austrian radio, said she...

Government of India grants handsome rewards to informers who provide specific information leading to seizure of goods, currency, bullion or leads to detection of duty evasion including wrong declaration of quantity, description, value etc. The maximum amount of reward to the informers can be as high as 20% of the value of confiscated goods and penalty realised. The maximum reward in respect of gold is Rs.50,000/- per Kg., for silver it is Rs. 1,000/-...

customs officers used paid informants to target individuals in the Pakistani community. Defence lawyers believe up to 100 individuals may have been trapped by informants and that many of them are innocent, like Mr Choudhery and Mr Ashraf. Initially the pair pleaded guilty because lawyers warned they could face even longer sentences if they didn't. But once in jail they protested their innocence saying they had been set-up by paid informers. In years...

Huseyin Baybasin, head of a Kurdish gang accused of heroin smuggling.Supported by witnesses, Baybasin claims he and his family moved from Turkey in the 1990s with the help of the British government after he agreed to provide information about the complicity of the Turkish government in smuggling. Baybasin, whose gang was said at one time to control 90% of the heroin trafficked into Britain, is serving life in a Dutch jail after being convicted of...

JACK STRAW, the former foreign secretary, instructed diplomats to lobby for the release of a convicted criminal described by police and customs intelligence reports as a leading smuggler of heroin into Britain.Foreign Office telegrams ordered efforts to secure “the immediate release” from a German jail in 2001 of Andreas Antoniades who worked for years as a paid informer for Customs. At the time, he was wanted in Greece on drugs smuggling charges.Although...

The Government of India has been implementing a highly attractive Reward Scheme. In brief, this Reward Scheme provides for handsome rewards to informers who provide specific information leading to seizure of goods, currency, bullion or leads to detection of duty evasion including wrong declaration of quantity, description, value etc. There is also a provision of sanction of advance reward in suitable cas...

Informer

Each reward payment made by HMRC is calculated on the circumstances relevant to that case.It would not be in the public interest to divulge the exact factors taken into account when calculating such payments, however all Law Enforcement agencies, in accordance with the relevant ACPO guidelines, apply similar considerations when determining levels of rewards payme...

The last reward paid by HMRC for the recovery of cash was in March 20...

Informers

The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis informs me that the total amount paid to informers for the financial year 2000–01 was £661,927. A total of 249 informers received payments during the course of that year. As some will have received multiple payments it is not possible to provide a representative average payment....

Since 2001, a total of approximately £570,000 of suspected terrorist funds have been frozen in the UK including funds belonging to six designated organisations. All assets frozen remain the property of the designated individuals or organisations and are not disposed of by the Treasury. The Treasury reports to Parliament quarterly on the operation of its asset-freezing regime, including detail on the total amount of funds frozen. The latest such report...

Rewards have been paid to informers by the two former departments, HM Customs and Excise and the Inland Revenue, as follows:£1997-981,670,8121998-991,052,0331999-20001,083,8952000-011,603,3012001-021,464,4002002-03984,4222003-04946,...

The Government today announced that it will not be tightening the charging regime for Freedom of Information requests or access to coroners' courts as

The Government today announced that it will not be tightening the charging regime for Freedom of Information requests or access to coroners' courts as it had previou...

Developing contacts and pulling in off-diary stories for crime reporters is probably tougher than ever for today’s journalists.

Developing contacts and pulling in off-diary stories for crime reporters is probably tougher than ever for today’s journalists.Police press officers are increasingly seeking to control the flow of information by monopolising content with journalists, particularly the Metropolitan Poli...