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A manhunt is underway for criminals who looted millions from Japans cash machines nationwide in an
stanley cup hours-long heist, officials and reports said Monday. Armed with fake credit card details from South Afr
stanley cup icas Standard Bank, the thieves hit 1,400 convenience store ATMs in a coordinated attack earlier this month. Representative image Armed with fake credit card details from South Africas Standard Bank, the thieves hit 1,400 convenience store ATMs in a coordinated attack earlier this month. The international gang members, reportedly numbering around 100 people, each made a series of withdrawals in less than three hours, Japanese media said. Their haul totalled 1.4 billion yen $13 million , according to the reports, with machines in Tokyo an
stanley cup d Osaka among those targeted. It was not clear how the gang made off with the equivalent of millions of dollars so quickly as the cash machines usually limit withdrawals to 100,000 yen $910 a day. Japanese police declined to confirm the robbery, but Standard Bank acknowledged the heist and put its losses at around $19 million. The bank said it was a victim of a sophisticated, coordinated fraud incident . This involved the withdrawal of cash using a small number of fictitious cards at various ATMs in Japan, it said in a statement. Japans top-selling Yomiuri newspaper said the lightning-fast raids began early on the morning of May 15, a Sunday, when banks were closed. That may have bought the thieves enough time to pull off Lbdw Chinese official shot dead in Tibetan area
A Pakistani who was once world cricket s top administrator has accused the Pakistan Cricket Board PCB of dragging its feet in the bid to restore international matches to the country. HT Image Pakistan became a no-go area for cricket s leading nations after an armed attack on the Sri Lanka team bus inLahore in March last year killed eight peo
nike dunk ple, as well as injuring seven Sri Lankan players and their assistant coach. But Ehsan Mani,a Pakistani who was president of the International Cricket Council from 2003 to 2006, saidthe PCB s failure to submit a report on the attack meant the necessary first step for restoring the confidence of the worldcricket community in Pakistan had still to be taken. The PCB has yet to submit a report on the Lahore attacks to the ICC, and unless and until they do so teams willcontinue to refuse to tour Pakistan, Man
adidas samba i said. By not submitting the report, the PCB has not been able to form a strategy with the ICC and until the member boardsanalyse that report they will
stanley cup continue to hesitate when it comes to touring Pakistan, said Mani, an accountant who wasborn in Pakistan but has long since settled in England. Pakistan was due to stage matches in next year s World Cup. But the attack on the Sri Lanka bus saw the tournamentrestricted to the three remaining Asian Test nations of India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Even before the Lahore incident, the likes of Australia repeatedly refused to tour Pakistan, where thousands have diedin a dec
