Suspicious ballot paper seized at Edinburgh count
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May 9, 2021
EDINBURGH: A possible case of electoral fraud is being investigated by police at the Edinburgh count for the Holyrood election.
A suspicious ballot paper was seized after a would-be voter in the Edinburgh Northern and Leith constituency tried to vote, only to be stopped because someone had already cast a ballot in their name.
Candidates and polling agents were summoned on Saturday morning as counting got under way in Edinburgh to witness count staff and police attempt to track down the vote in question.
Depute returning officer Chris Highcock confirmed that the vote allegedly cast in someone else’s name – a crime known as personation – had been located and was being investigated by police.
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(Photo by Arnold Bustamante) May 06, 2021 THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 7 and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) confiscated illegal drugs worth P1.08 million in a surprise greyhound operation of the cells inside the Cebu City Jail male dormitory early Thursday morning, May 6, 2021.
Apart from the illegal drugs, the police also seized contraband and firearms, including a .45 caliber pistol, its magazine assembly and live ammunition, cell phones, sharp weapons, and cigarettes, which are all forbidden inside the City Jail.
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(Photo by Arnold Bustamante) May 06, 2021 THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 7 and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) confiscated illegal drugs worth P1.08 million in a surprise greyhound operation of the cells inside the Cebu City Jail male dormitory early Thursday morning, May 6, 2021.
Apart from the illegal drugs, the police also seized contraband and firearms, including a .45 caliber pistol, its magazine assembly and live ammunition, cell phones, sharp weapons, and cigarettes, which are all forbidden inside the City Jail.
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has seized a shipment of 3.97 million nitrile disposable gloves from Malaysia s Top Glove Corp Bhd estimated to be worth US$518,000 (RM2.13mil), on indications they were made by forced labour, it said Wednesday (May 5).
CBP on March 29 issued a forced labour finding based on evidence of multiple forced labour indicators in the world s largest medical glove maker s production process.
It had initially banned products from two of Top Glove s subsidiaries last July, but extended the ban to all of the manufacturer s products made in Malaysia in March.
The indicators included debt bondage, excessive overtime, abusive working and living conditions, and retention of identity documents, the CBP said in a statement.