<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - tycoon</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/tycoon</link><description>Newsvine - tycoon</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:56:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 10:35:40 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Chinese company looking for missing tycoon</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Chinese tycoon with ties to mining companies in the United States, Australia and Africa is missing and a newspaper says he has been detained by police.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe McDonald]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Joe McDonald]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/21/17395799-chinese-company-looking-for-missing-tycoon</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/21/17395799-chinese-company-looking-for-missing-tycoon</guid><category>china</category><category>missing</category><category>tycoon</category><category>world-news</category><category>as</category><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:36:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>30 days in jail for Serbia's richest man</title>
<description><![CDATA[A judge on Friday ordered the richest man in Serbia to be held in prison for 30 days pending trial on suspicion of corruption, as the government hailed his arrest as proof that no one is above the law in the graft-plagued country.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dusan Stojanovic]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Dusan Stojanovic]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/12/15858437-30-days-in-jail-for-serbias-richest-man</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/12/15858437-30-days-in-jail-for-serbias-richest-man</guid><category>eu</category><category>serbia</category><category>tycoon</category><category>detained</category><category>world-news</category><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:01:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2f4fd39a-4eab-48b6-b72e-0c9aa2a3a2dc.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="376" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2f4fd39a-4eab-48b6-b72e-0c9aa2a3a2dc.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="163" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE- In this March 3, 2011 file photo Serbias billionaire retail tycoon Miroslav Miskovic, speaks during a press conference, in Belgrade, Serbia. Miskovic, one of Serbias richest and most influential figures, is the owner of Delta Holding company which deals with retail, real estate, insurance and agriculture business in Serbia and the rest of the Balkans. Police said Wednesday Miskovic, his son Marko and eight others were detained for investigation in connection with a multi-million-dollar privatization of a road-repairs firm. (AP Photo/Andrej Cukic, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Judge orders Irish tycoon jailed for contempt</title>
<description><![CDATA[Bankrupt tycoon Sean Quinn, once Ireland's richest man and a celebrated self-made billionaire, was sent to jail for nine weeks Friday after a judge found him guilty of stripping foreign assets from his crumbling business empire in violation of court orders.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shawn Pogatchnik]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Shawn Pogatchnik]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/01/14878646-judge-orders-irish-tycoon-jailed-for-contempt</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/01/14878646-judge-orders-irish-tycoon-jailed-for-contempt</guid><category>eu</category><category>ireland</category><category>tycoon</category><category>world-news</category><category>sean-quinn</category><pubDate>Fri, 2 Nov 2012 00:05:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=141042ee-1e31-4096-b061-984b1e15bedf.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="279" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=141042ee-1e31-4096-b061-984b1e15bedf.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE This  Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 file photo shows Sean Quinn leaving Dublin high court, Dublin, Ireland.  A judge in Ireland on Friday Nov. 2, 2012 ordered bankrupt tycoon Sean Quinn jailed for nine weeks for failing to observe orders to stop placing foreign property assets beyond the reach of creditors. Quinn  Ireland's richest man until 2008  faces financial ruin because of his reckless gamble that year on Anglo Irish Bank. The Dublin lender was the biggest financier of Ireland's runaway property market, a boom that imploded in 2009.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File )&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=671a5054-db26-4ff9-9aba-fd07c5e824f2.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="260" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=671a5054-db26-4ff9-9aba-fd07c5e824f2.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE This , Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 file photo shows Sean Quinn, center, arriving at the High court with his daughter-in-law Karen Woods, right, in Dublin, Ireland.  A judge in Ireland on Friday Nov. 2, 2012 ordered bankrupt tycoon Sean Quinn jailed for nine weeks for failing to observe orders to stop placing foreign property assets beyond the reach of creditors. Quinn  Ireland's richest man until 2008  faces financial ruin because of his reckless gamble that year on Anglo Irish Bank. The Dublin lender was the biggest financier of Ireland's runaway property market, a boom that imploded in 2009. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Prominent Kremlin critic faces criminal charges</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Russian tycoon who has financed a newspaper critical of the Kremlin and supported the opposition has been charged with hooliganism and assault for punching a businessman during a television talk show. He dismissed the criminal case as politically motivated.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Seddon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Max Seddon]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/26/14111707-prominent-kremlin-critic-faces-criminal-charges</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/26/14111707-prominent-kremlin-critic-faces-criminal-charges</guid><category>eu</category><category>charged</category><category>tycoon</category><category>world-news</category><category>russia-tycoon</category><pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:32:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=af1f7b05-c2bc-49c6-9d27-c8273ebfb1b1.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="343" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=af1f7b05-c2bc-49c6-9d27-c8273ebfb1b1.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="179" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Wednesday Oct. 8, 2008 file photo Russian billionaire banker Alexander Lebedev speaking during an interview in his house in Moscow. Alexander Lebedev, a Russian tycoon who has financed a newspaper critical of the Kremlin and supported the opposition, was charged over an incident during a TV talk show a year ago in which he punched another businessman, the country's top investigative agency said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a5c25229-d35f-4255-8e97-f86c4746c5b3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="297" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a5c25229-d35f-4255-8e97-f86c4746c5b3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen during a ceremony of receiving credentials in Moscow's Kremlin on Wednesday in Moscow,  Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012. Russian President Vladimir Putin has renewed calls for a joint international solution to civil conflict in the Middle East in a veiled rejection of Western demands for an end to Syrian leader Bashar Assads rule. Putin said Wednesday that incitement to the continuation of violence with a view to securing regime change would only create further unrest. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Turkish Cypriot tycoon guilty on charges of theft</title>
<description><![CDATA[A British jury has found Turkish Cypriot tycoon Asil Nadir guilty of 10 charges of theft from his collapsed Polly Peck conglomerate, 22 years after the company folded.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/20/13376153-turkish-cypriot-tycoon-guilty-on-charges-of-theft</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/20/13376153-turkish-cypriot-tycoon-guilty-on-charges-of-theft</guid><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>trial</category><category>tycoon</category><category>world-news</category><category>turkish-cypriot</category><category>asil-nadir</category><category>polly-peck</category><pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:15:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e0aa86f0-1861-47e8-97ac-0101b5519056.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="284" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e0aa86f0-1861-47e8-97ac-0101b5519056.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This is a Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, file photo of the founder of the collapsed Polly Peck business empire Asil Nadir as he arrives at The Old Bailey court in London. Former fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir was found guilty at the Old Bailey Monday Aug. 20, 2012 of  three counts of theft. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth.File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Stanford gets 110 years for role in $7B swindle</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/14/12224843-stanford-gets-110-years-for-role-in-7b-swindle</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/14/12224843-stanford-gets-110-years-for-role-in-7b-swindle</guid><category>history</category><category>stanford</category><category>for</category><category>tycoon</category><category>bilking</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>allen-stanford</category><category>jet-setting</category><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:10:49 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/biz-120614-stanfordverdict.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/biz-120614-stanfordverdict.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford was sentenced to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over 20 years in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history.&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Chinese tycoon jailed after death sentence revoked</title>
<description><![CDATA[A former Chinese tycoon who was convicted of illegally raising money for her business was sentenced Monday to prison after China's supreme court overturned a death sentence following a public outcry.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/21/11790073-chinese-tycoon-jailed-after-death-sentence-revoked</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/21/11790073-chinese-tycoon-jailed-after-death-sentence-revoked</guid><category>business</category><category>china</category><category>ex</category><category>sentenced</category><category>tycoon</category><category>as</category><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 11:01:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Ireland's former richest person declared bankrupt</title>
<description><![CDATA[A famed entrepreneur who was once rated Ireland's richest person was declared bankrupt Monday as a bank pursues him for debts exceeding euro2.1 billion ($2.7 billion).]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shawn Pogatchnik]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Shawn Pogatchnik]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/16/10167120-irelands-former-richest-person-declared-bankrupt</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/16/10167120-irelands-former-richest-person-declared-bankrupt</guid><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>ireland</category><category>tycoon</category><category>world-news</category><category>bankrupt</category><category>ireland-bankrupt</category><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:16:58 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Irish bank seeks to reverse tycoon's UK bankruptcy</title>
<description><![CDATA[An Irish bank pursuing Ireland's former richest man for euro2.16 billion ($2.9 billion) in unpaid loans appealed Thursday to a Northern Ireland judge to overturn his bankruptcy judgment.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shawn Pogatchnik]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Shawn Pogatchnik]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/24/8996965-irish-bank-seeks-to-reverse-tycoons-uk-bankruptcy</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/24/8996965-irish-bank-seeks-to-reverse-tycoons-uk-bankruptcy</guid><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>ireland</category><category>northern-ireland</category><category>tycoon</category><category>world-news</category><category>bankrupt</category><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:36:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Ex-sex king asks: Who better to fight Thai graft?</title>
<description><![CDATA[As the super-pimp who once ran Thailand's biggest brothel empire and then exposed the police kickbacks he had to pay for it to flourish, Chuvit Kamolvisit feels uniquely qualified to lead the country's fight against corruption.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd Pitman]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Todd Pitman]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/28/6962866-ex-sex-king-asks-who-better-to-fight-thai-graft</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/28/6962866-ex-sex-king-asks-who-better-to-fight-thai-graft</guid><category>thailand</category><category>sex</category><category>tycoon</category><category>world-news</category><category>as</category><category>chuvit-kamolvisit</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:19:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/2cd5c184-40b0-4506-99bf-65d2364798cd.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="304" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/2cd5c184-40b0-4506-99bf-65d2364798cd.jpg" width="120" height="92" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this June 21, 2011 photo, Chuwit Kamolvisit, former owner of a string of massage parlors takes pictures with his supporters during an election campaign for his Rak Thailand Party  in Bangkok, Thailand. As the super-pimp who once ran Thailand's biggest brothel empire and then exposed the police kickbacks he had to pay for it to flourish, Chuvit feels uniquely qualified to lead the country's fight against corruption. (AP Photo/sakchai Lalit)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/7d13acb6-7a4c-423d-b7f3-b493b60fd143.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="272" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/7d13acb6-7a4c-423d-b7f3-b493b60fd143.jpg" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this June 21, 2011 photo, Chuwit Kamolvisit, former owner of a string of massage parlors, waves to his supporters during an election campaign for his Rak Thailand Party  in Bangkok, Thailand. As the super-pimp who once ran Thailand's biggest brothel empire and then exposed the police kickbacks he had to pay for it to flourish, Chuvit feels uniquely qualified to lead the country's fight against corruption. (AP Photo/sakchai Lalit)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/82d76a78-0517-4a2c-94f2-1412d66d6b43.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="318" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/82d76a78-0517-4a2c-94f2-1412d66d6b43.jpg" width="120" height="96" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this June 21, 2011 photo, Chuwit Kamolvisit, former owner of a string of massage parlors, waves to his supporters during an election campaign for his Rak Thailand Party  in Bangkok, Thailand. As the super-pimp who once ran Thailand's biggest brothel empire and then exposed the police kickbacks he had to pay for it to flourish, Chuvit feels uniquely qualified to lead the country's fight against corruption. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/8b51592d-61b2-4b21-9286-823227888177.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="304" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/8b51592d-61b2-4b21-9286-823227888177.jpg" width="120" height="92" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;CORRECTS SPELL OF FORMER OWNER'S NAME TO CHUVIT - In this June 21, 2011 photo, Chuvit Kamolvisit, former owner of a string of massage parlors takes pictures with his supporters during an election campaign for his Rak Thailand Party in Bangkok, Thailand. As the super-pimp who once ran Thailand's biggest brothel empire and then exposed the police kickbacks he had to pay for it to flourish, Chuvit feels uniquely qualified to lead the country's fight against corruption. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/754937e6-ef63-418b-9910-10d69195149b.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="272" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/754937e6-ef63-418b-9910-10d69195149b.jpg" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;CORRECTS SPELL OF FORMER OWNER'S NAME TO CHUVIT - In this June 21, 2011 photo, Chuvit Kamolvisit, former owner of a string of massage parlors, waves to his supporters during an election campaign for his Rak Thailand Party in Bangkok, Thailand. As the super-pimp who once ran Thailand's biggest brothel empire and then exposed the police kickbacks he had to pay for it to flourish, Chuvit feels uniquely qualified to lead the country's fight against corruption. (AP Photo/sakchai Lalit)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/c251dff9-152e-4cd1-9548-cd000667fff0.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="318" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/c251dff9-152e-4cd1-9548-cd000667fff0.jpg" width="120" height="96" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;CORRECTS SPELL OF FORMER OWNER'S NAME TO CHUVIT - In this June 21, 2011 photo, Chuvit Kamolvisit, former owner of a string of massage parlors, waves to his supporters during an election campaign for his Rak Thailand Party in Bangkok, Thailand. As the super-pimp who once ran Thailand's biggest brothel empire and then exposed the police kickbacks he had to pay for it to flourish, Chuvit feels uniquely qualified to lead the country's fight against corruption. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Facebook, PayPal tycoon embraces sci-fi future</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the movie The Social Network, the character of Peter Thiel is played as a slick Master of the Universe, a tech industry king and kingmaker with the savvy to see that a $500,000 investment in Facebook could mint millions later.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcus Wohlsen]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Marcus Wohlsen]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/25/5713112-facebook-paypal-tycoon-embraces-sci-fi-future</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/25/5713112-facebook-paypal-tycoon-embraces-sci-fi-future</guid><category>technology</category><category>us</category><category>tech</category><category>san-francisco</category><category>tycoon</category><category>silicon-valley</category><category>peter-thiel</category><pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 17:01:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/fa8e05aa-5ca4-4a85-af8e-dd6944565048.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="256" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/fa8e05aa-5ca4-4a85-af8e-dd6944565048.jpg" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2000 file photo, PayPal Chief Executive Officer Peter Thiel, left, and founder Elon Musk, right, pose with the PayPal logo at corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Thiel who who co-founded PayPal and gave Facebook its first big investment now wants Silicon Valley to buy into a bigger idea: the future. Thiel is backing groups that see a future when computers will communicate directly with the human brain. Seafaring pioneers will found new floating nations in the middle of the ocean. Science will conquer aging, and death will become a curable disease. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Bailed ex-tycoon Asil Nadir arrested, released</title>
<description><![CDATA[A former tycoon who faces trial next year for allegedly stealing millions from his collapsed company, was arrested Saturday for allegedly breaching his bail conditions but was released hours later.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/04/5580289-bailed-ex-tycoon-asil-nadir-arrested-released</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/04/5580289-bailed-ex-tycoon-asil-nadir-arrested-released</guid><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>fugitive</category><category>tycoon</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Sat, 4 Dec 2010 21:21:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>After 17 years, fugitive tycoon shows in UK court</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Turkish Cypriot businessman who voluntarily returned to Britain after 17 years to face fraud charges learned Friday that he will have to wait more than a year for the trial he insists will vindicate him.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/03/5038221-after-17-years-fugitive-tycoon-shows-in-uk-court</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/03/5038221-after-17-years-fugitive-tycoon-shows-in-uk-court</guid><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>fugitive</category><category>tycoon</category><category>world-news</category><category>turkish-cypriot</category><category>central-criminal-court</category><pubDate>Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:24:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/ecb86883-aadb-447a-b448-a5c18d96b010.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="342" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/ecb86883-aadb-447a-b448-a5c18d96b010.jpg" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Tycoon Asil Nadir arrives for a hearing at the Old Bailey court in London, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010.  The tycoon who fled Britain almost two decades ago following the spectacular collapse of his business empire recently returned to London to face charges of fraud.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a57fc922-876f-4b25-9b3e-8fd9a9d40803.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="287" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a57fc922-876f-4b25-9b3e-8fd9a9d40803.jpg" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Tycoon Asil Nadir, right, is driven away after attending a hearing at the Old Bailey court in London, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010.  The tycoon who fled Britain almost two decades ago following the spectacular collapse of his business empire recently returned to London to face charges of fraud. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/c75f67fd-551c-4dda-8144-fb631fc49992.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="282" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/c75f67fd-551c-4dda-8144-fb631fc49992.jpg" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Tycoon Asil Nadir, centre, leaves after attending a hearing at the Old Bailey in London, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010.  The tycoon who fled Britain almost two decades ago following the spectacular collapse of his business empire recently returned to London to face charges of fraud.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/22db4507-a47e-4795-be69-8f763dbf6a71.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="370" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/22db4507-a47e-4795-be69-8f763dbf6a71.jpg" width="120" height="166" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Tycoon Asil Nadir leaves after attending a hearing at the Old Bailey court in London, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010.  The tycoon who fled Britain almost two decades ago following the spectacular collapse of his business empire recently returned to London to face charges of fraud.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/087534cb-9fa6-463f-9c2e-bba247160ce5.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/087534cb-9fa6-463f-9c2e-bba247160ce5.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Tycoon Asil Nadir, center, leaves after attending a hearing at the Old Bailey court in London, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010.  The tycoon who fled Britain almost two decades ago following the spectacular collapse of his business empire recently returned to London to face charges of fraud.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/6070d1f3-9658-41b9-aaa6-eac80f5264e9.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="283" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/6070d1f3-9658-41b9-aaa6-eac80f5264e9.jpg" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Tycoon Asil Nadir arrives for a hearing at the Old Bailey court in London, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010.  The tycoon who fled Britain almost two decades ago following the spectacular collapse of his business empire recently returned to London to face charges of fraud.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/bb5f171f-e726-4269-aabf-7ef71203fd89.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="247" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/bb5f171f-e726-4269-aabf-7ef71203fd89.jpg" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Tycoon Asil Nadir, second right, arrives for a hearing at the Old Bailey court in London, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010.  The tycoon who fled Britain almost two decades ago following the spectacular collapse of his business empire recently returned to London to face charges of fraud.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/02dab2f7-47b4-4a4e-ac2d-b33733abe4b5.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="283" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/02dab2f7-47b4-4a4e-ac2d-b33733abe4b5.jpg" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Tycoon Asil Nadir arrives for a hearing at the Old Bailey court in London, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010.  The tycoon who fled Britain almost two decades ago following the spectacular collapse of his business empire recently returned to London to face charges of fraud.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/c8888dab-bcac-4425-bcab-23db99137f29.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="247" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/c8888dab-bcac-4425-bcab-23db99137f29.jpg" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Tycoon Asil Nadir, right, arrives for a hearing at the Old Bailey court in London, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010.  The tycoon who fled Britain almost two decades ago following the spectacular collapse of his business empire recently returned to London to face charges of fraud.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Fugitive Turkish Cypriot tycoon returns to UK</title>
<description><![CDATA[A tycoon who fled Britain almost two decades ago following the spectacular collapse of his business empire returned to London Thursday to face charges of fraud.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raphael G. Satter]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Raphael G. Satter]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/26/4972966-fugitive-turkish-cypriot-tycoon-returns-to-uk</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/26/4972966-fugitive-turkish-cypriot-tycoon-returns-to-uk</guid><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>fugitive</category><category>tycoon</category><category>world-news</category><category>northern-cyprus</category><category>fugitive-tycoon</category><category>asil-nadir</category><pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:23:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/b2d97f79-5387-49f6-8e7a-6bc507e2858d.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="311" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/b2d97f79-5387-49f6-8e7a-6bc507e2858d.jpg" width="120" height="94" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this  Friday, May 30, 1997 file picture Asil Nadir the former chairman of food and electronics conglomerate &quot;Polly Peck&quot; gestures during the press conference in Istanbul,Turkey. A tycoon who fled Britain almost two decades ago following the spectacular collapse of his business empire told British media Thursday that he is returning to London to face charges of fraud.Asil Nadir said he was on his way to Britain to write the final chapter of a boom-and-bust story that tarnished the reputation of the Conservative Party &amp;#8212; to which he was a major donor &amp;#8212; and made him a fugitive from British justice for 17 years.(AP Photo/Murad Sezer/File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>China appliance chain Gome sues jailed founder</title>
<description><![CDATA[China's biggest appliance retailer is suing its founder and former chairman for damages after he was jailed for economic crimes and maneuvers from prison to exert control over the company.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gillian Wong]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Gillian Wong]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/06/4830011-china-appliance-chain-gome-sues-jailed-founder</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/06/4830011-china-appliance-chain-gome-sues-jailed-founder</guid><category>business</category><category>hong-kong</category><category>sued</category><category>tycoon</category><category>as</category><pubDate>Fri, 6 Aug 2010 04:26:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/db986c91-4d56-4ec7-9dec-23ee1b6683bc.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="351" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/db986c91-4d56-4ec7-9dec-23ee1b6683bc.jpg" width="120" height="175" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2006 file photo, Gome Appliances Chairman Huang Guangyu, also known as Wong Kwong Yu, speaks during the announcement of a partnership between Gome and Motorola in Beijing, China. Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings Ltd. started legal proceedings on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 against Huang Guangyu in the High Court of Hong Kong, the company said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Huge payout in Russian tycoon Berezovsky's divorce</title>
<description><![CDATA[Self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky said Friday that a London court had granted a preliminary divorce decree from his second wife.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/22/4736098-huge-payout-in-russian-tycoon-berezovskys-divorce</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/22/4736098-huge-payout-in-russian-tycoon-berezovskys-divorce</guid><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>divorce</category><category>tycoon</category><category>world-news</category><category>boris-berezovsky</category><category>self-exiled-russian</category><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:35:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Chinese appliance tycoon jailed for 14 years</title>
<description><![CDATA[An appliance retailer who was once China's richest businessman was sentenced to 14 years for insider trading and other crimes Tuesday, the latest in a series of Chinese tycoons jailed for financial offenses.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe McDonald]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Joe McDonald]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/05/18/4296774-chinese-appliance-tycoon-jailed-for-14-years</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/05/18/4296774-chinese-appliance-tycoon-jailed-for-14-years</guid><category>business</category><category>china</category><category>trial</category><category>tycoon</category><category>as</category><pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 05:04:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/bc18c52e-bb70-4996-86a0-87c861abde69.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="351" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/bc18c52e-bb70-4996-86a0-87c861abde69.jpg" width="120" height="175" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2006 file photo, Gome Appliances Chairman Huang Guangyu, also known as Wong Kwong-yu, speaks during the announcement of a partnership between Gome and Motorola in Beijing, China.  The home appliance dealer who once was China's richest businessman was sentenced Tuesday, May 18, 2010 to 14 years in prison after being convicted of insider trading and other offenses, the government announced. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Emirati tycoon dismisses report he's a wanted man</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Emirati host of an "Apprentice"-style reality show and former owner of cash-strapped Premier League team Portsmouth said Wednesday he plans to cut short an overseas trip to clear his name amid reports he is wanted in Dubai over an unresolved property dispute.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Schreck]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Adam Schreck]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/17/3908955-emirati-tycoon-dismisses-report-hes-a-wanted-man</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/17/3908955-emirati-tycoon-dismisses-report-hes-a-wanted-man</guid><category>business</category><category>premier-league</category><category>defense</category><category>tycoon</category><category>dubai</category><category>ml</category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:57:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>SKorean government to pardon ex-Samsung chairman</title>
<description><![CDATA[Convicted ex-Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee will be granted a special pardon to allow the influential business magnate to rejoin efforts to bring the Winter Olympics to South Korea, the government said Tuesday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/28/3691644-skorean-government-to-pardon-ex-samsung-chairman</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/28/3691644-skorean-government-to-pardon-ex-samsung-chairman</guid><category>skorea</category><category>samsung</category><category>winter-olympics</category><category>tycoon</category><category>world-news</category><category>as</category><category>lee-kun-hee</category><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:29:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/b1ce5f34-e603-4054-975f-461925c02327.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="504" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/b1ce5f34-e603-4054-975f-461925c02327.jpg" width="120" height="151" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE- In this Aug. 14, 2009 file photo, Former Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee gets into a car to leave the Seoul Court House after his trial in Seoul, South Korea. Convicted Lee will be granted a special pardon to allow the influential business magnate to rejoin efforts to bring the Winter Olympics to South Korea, the government said Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/9d6f8dd0-c8cc-47a5-8d6d-66d4d53fa639.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="326" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/9d6f8dd0-c8cc-47a5-8d6d-66d4d53fa639.jpg" width="120" height="98" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE- In this Aug. 14, 2009 file photo, Former Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee leaves the Seoul Court House after his trial in Seoul, South Korea. Convicted Lee will be granted a special pardon to allow the influential business magnate to rejoin efforts to bring the Winter Olympics to South Korea, the government said Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a2f48110-ea39-4c3d-a0f2-97f49e95749f.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="275" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a2f48110-ea39-4c3d-a0f2-97f49e95749f.jpg" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE- In this Aug. 14, 2009 file photo, Former Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee gets into a car to leave the Seoul Court House after his trial in Seoul, South Korea. Convicted Lee will be granted a special pardon to allow the influential business magnate to rejoin efforts to bring the Winter Olympics to South Korea, the government said Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Report: SKorean tycoon dead of apparent suicide</title>
<description><![CDATA[The ousted chairman of South Korea's oldest conglomerate, the Doosan Group, was found dead in an apparent suicide, a news report said Wednesday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/04/3458425-report-skorean-tycoon-dead-of-apparent-suicide</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/04/3458425-report-skorean-tycoon-dead-of-apparent-suicide</guid><category>skorea</category><category>death</category><category>south-korea</category><category>tycoon</category><category>world-news</category><category>as</category><pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 04:19:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/0ec5a94c-210d-46bd-8b75-4e3da0fe414d.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="372" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/0ec5a94c-210d-46bd-8b75-4e3da0fe414d.jpg" width="120" height="165" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this undated photo, shown is Park Yong-oh , the former chief executive of the Doosan Group, one of South Korea's largest conglomerates. A news report said Park has committed suicide Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009.  The Yonhap news agency cites police as saying Wednesday that Park Yong-oh was found dead at his home in Seoul. (AP Photo/Yonhap)  &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Israel charges Russian-born tycoon with fraud</title>
<description><![CDATA[Israeli authorities charged an enigmatic Russian-born tycoon who has fled the country with fraud and money laundering, according to court documents filed Thursday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/01/3338259-israel-charges-russian-born-tycoon-with-fraud</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/01/3338259-israel-charges-russian-born-tycoon-with-fraud</guid><category>israel</category><category>charged</category><category>tycoon</category><category>world-news</category><category>ml</category><pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 13:53:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/e4e1e103-c57f-4d0e-a986-81c50d5140d2.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/e4e1e103-c57f-4d0e-a986-81c50d5140d2.jpg" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2006 file photo, Russian-Israeli billionaire Arkady Gaydamak speaks during a press conference in the city of Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli authorities have indicted Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009, the Russian-born tycoon who fled the country on charges of fraud and money laundering. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>New trial for Russia tycoon &amp;#8212; and for rule of law</title>
<description><![CDATA[From a tiny cell in one of Moscow's most notorious prisons, the man who was once his country's wealthiest tycoon awaits a trial that for many will be a critical test of Russian justice &#8212; and President Dmitry Medvedev's commitment to the rule of law.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Eckel]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Mike Eckel]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/01/2491586-new-trial-for-russia-tycoon-and-for-rule-of-law</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/01/2491586-new-trial-for-russia-tycoon-and-for-rule-of-law</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>tycoon</category><category>world-news</category><category>twice</category><category>tried</category><category>dmitry-medvedev</category><pubDate>Sun, 1 Mar 2009 13:47:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/f88f13ff-176b-4262-9444-33201037edbd.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="294" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/f88f13ff-176b-4262-9444-33201037edbd.jpg" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this June 16, 2004 file photo, former Yukos oil company CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky seen behind bars at a courtroom, at the start of a trial in Moscow. Jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been transferred from his Siberian prison to Moscow for a new trial, a court official and lawyers said Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Teodor Kustov, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/50f9b21d-18a6-4c73-a00f-58dc44b6b9c5.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="354" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/50f9b21d-18a6-4c73-a00f-58dc44b6b9c5.jpg" width="120" height="174" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former CEO of Russian oil giant Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky stands behind bars during a trial in Moscow, Friday, in this April 1, 2005 file photo. Jailed Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been transferred from his Siberian prison to Moscow for a new trial, a court official and lawyers said Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>China financial cops linked to Gome tycoon case</title>
<description><![CDATA[Two senior Chinese police officials in charge of investigating financial crimes are themselves being questioned about alleged links to a case involving appliance tycoon Wong Kwong-yu, reports said Tuesday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/20/2331990-china-financial-cops-linked-to-gome-tycoon-case</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/20/2331990-china-financial-cops-linked-to-gome-tycoon-case</guid><category>business</category><category>china</category><category>probe</category><category>tycoon</category><category>as</category><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:48:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Reports: Chinese tycoon's wife detained in probe</title>
<description><![CDATA[The wife of billionaire Chinese appliance retailer Wong Kwong-yu has been detained as police investigate Wong for possible financial offenses, according to news reports.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/06/2281887-reports-chinese-tycoons-wife-detained-in-probe</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/06/2281887-reports-chinese-tycoons-wife-detained-in-probe</guid><category>business</category><category>probe</category><category>tycoon</category><category>as-china</category><category>wong-kwong-yu</category><pubDate>Wed, 7 Jan 2009 03:12:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Chinese appliance tycoon's company post suspended</title>
<description><![CDATA[China's largest appliances retailer has suspended its founder and chairman, tycoon Wong Kwong-yu, citing his inability to perform his duties due to an investigation into alleged economic crimes.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/26/2247137-chinese-appliance-tycoons-company-post-suspended</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/26/2247137-chinese-appliance-tycoons-company-post-suspended</guid><category>business</category><category>china</category><category>tycoon</category><category>as</category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:51:43 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>