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...Personally, I’ve found myself thinking of video games reading novels like The Power (2016) by Naomi Alderman (herself a game writer), even Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam books....
...Robert Fico: Slovak bogeyman or blusterer?...
...Senate Democrats had requested for John Roberts, the chief justice, to testify at Tuesday’s hearing....
...In 2014, the SFO was ordered to pay property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz £1.5m in damages over a bungled dawn raid at his home, far less than the record £300m in damages he had sought....
...The high street is Putney’s “big issue”, says Robert Arguile, chair of the Putney Society and a local resident for 34 years....
...The Alstom probe began when Richard Alderman was SFO director, continued throughout David Green’s six-year tenure and has concluded, barring any appeals, a few months after Lisa Osofsky took up the reins...
...a spooky fictional series that has become a successful live show, and by Gimlet’s Homecoming, the US series about a shady government programme that is soon to reappear as an Amazon TV series with Julia Roberts...
...This included the arrest of property tycoons Vincent and Robert Tchenguiz and dawn raids on their homes and offices — a debacle that prompted a judge to lambast the SFO for “sheer incompetence”....
...But since Mr Alderman stepped down in 2012, he cannot be blamed for how the case progressed....
...Mr Green took over from Richard Alderman in April 2012 and quickly vowed to shift the agency away from the pragmatic deal-doing that Mr Alderman was known for to one that emphasised prosecutions....
...Mr Duffy — grandson of an alderman from the Chicago’s Irish 19th ward — says he has testified before the government “probably close to 80 times” in the past 15 years....
...If called, it will be the second time this year that Mr Alderman has been called to give evidence over affairs under his tenure, which ended in April 2012....
...Mr Green reinstated the practice of applying for blockbuster funding – which the Treasury had scrapped under his predecessor, Richard Alderman – whereby the SFO may request additional funds for an investigation...
...Sara Fgaier of Italy, and former mentor Mira Nair Music: Gilberto Gil with protégée Dina El Wedidi and former mentor Youssou N’Dour Special guests and presenters: Susan Platts, former music protégée, Robert...
...watchers and even Robert Tchenguiz, the property tycoon who is suing the agency for £100m over its botched investigation into him and his brother....
...Attendees at the packed hearing included Robert Tchenguiz, who is suing the SFO with his brother, Vincent, for £300m damages after a botched agency investigation into the pair....
...Mr Alderman did not immediately respond to a request seeking comment....
...Richard Alderman, the ex-director, appeared in front of the Public Accounts Committee on Thursday to give his first testimony during a packed hearing whose audience included Robert Tchenguiz, a former SFO...
...Mr Tchenguiz was arrested during high-profile dawn raids in March 2011, in which his younger brother Robert was also taken into police custody....
...Thursday’s order heaped further criticism on the way the now-defunct investigation into the two brothers had been run by the SFO and, in particular, by the former director, Richard Alderman, whose term finished...
...It is also facing a potential bill of more than £200m in damages claims from Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz, after bungling an investigation into the property investor brothers....
...Mr Alderman’s tenure was characterised by a pragmatic willingness to do deals, some of which were kept confidential....
...In the first year of Mr Alderman’s tenure, in 2008-09, only two companies self-reported according to statistics....
...David Green, SFO director, inherited the Tchenguiz case from his predecessor, Richard Alderman, when he started at the agency in April....
...SFO director David Green inherited the Tchenguiz case from his predecessor, Richard Alderman, when he started at the SFO in April....
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