protection money

Islamabad, June 17 ( ANI ): The Pakistani Taliban has reportedly asked two local businessmen to pay 'protection money' to help militants carry out 'jihad'.

ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi paid the Mafia pounds 300,000-a-year protection money, a court was told yesterday.

O'Hare, shot dead in August, was linked to the murder of Dundalk publican Stephen Connolly, who, it is claimed, refused to hand over pounds 500 a week in protection money.

KARACHI -- Three alleged extortionists, who had demanded over Rs1 million in protection money from a trader, were arrested in Orangi Town on Sunday.

Crisanto Dandan Coyoca, 29, of Barangay New Corella in Makilala town in North Cotabato, was nabbed in the act of receiving "protection money" from a hardware store owner whose identity the police withheld for security reasons.

13 that identified 35 policemen and other law enforcement personnel as having received protection money from the Berya drug group, one of the main illegal drug groups in the province.

Dantewada, Sep 27 (ANI): Amid intense probe following reports quoting WikiLeaks that protection money was being given by Essar through contractors to Maoists, the Dantewada Police has taken into its custody the Company's General Manager DVCS Verma.

Catherine said the family do not believe that thugs were paramiltaries.She added that Wendy was not being intimidated into handing over protection money.

A RARE letter from "Rob Roy" MacGregor demanding protection money sold for more than pounds 14,000 at auction yesterday.

KARACHI -- Five suspected extortionists were arrested in a joint action carried out by Rangers and police personnel for demanding protection money from a trader last month in Orangi Town, officials said.

Five guerrillas from a New People's Army unit collecting 'protection money' from traders surrendered to the military on Saturday.

The vendors-members of the urban poor group Kadamay Manila and United Vendors Alliance-said that the policemen had been demanding P100 to P200 daily from them as protection money.