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Death Case of German Citizen
Victim was comitting suicide Denpasar (Bali Post)—
Join team of Denpasar Metro Police and South Denpasar Sector Police, finally revealed the mystery of the death case of German national, Mario Arnold, 40. After an investigation for a month, finally police confirmed the motive of victim’s death was a suicide. It was revealed after the result of forensic medical report was issued.
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Deputy Chief of Denpasar Metro Police, I Putu Mahasena, last Wednesday (Mar 10) explained that the victim’s death was caused by suicide. Its method, the victim drank spirits containing methanol and exhaust gas of car’s muffler was deliberately channeled into his car with a hose. Mahasena mentioned the methanol content in the liquor was known as much as 64.15 ppm. This means that, in the victim’s
the car. “This was done to accelerate the speed of victim’s death. Hence, the motive of the cause of death was due to suicide” he said to the media crew. When asked about the indication that victim was murdered, Mahasena strongly denied this. He insisted that victim genuinely killed himself. Meanwhile, Chief Ganefo explained, some evidences had been secured. For example, bottle of liquor, hose, and a knife. From these
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body retained much methanol content. “Well, this was what caused the victim die because we found a bottle of alcohol in the car brought by victim,” he explained accompanied by Chief of South Denpasar Sector Police, I Gede Ganefo in Denpasar last Monday. Not only that, the victim’s death was also caused by the gas in the car. Victims put a hose into the muffler of Suzuki Jimny car DK 683 Q and then connected it into
findings, there was no indication that the victim was murdered. “One of the examples, the hose was accidentally purchased by victim in a store, even its receipt was found there,” he explained. In the meantime, the knife was used to cut the hose. Such knife was obtained by victim from one of the restaurants. Even, the authority of restaurant itself admitted that the knife belonged to the restaurant. “After we crosschecked the slices existing in the hose with the shape of knife, in fact, it was the same. In other words, it was the victim himself who sliced the hose,” said former Chief of Detective Unit of Gianyar Resort Police.
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MEXICO CITY – Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the first man from a developing nation to become the world’s richest person — a shift that underlines the loosening of America and Europe’s stranglehold on the top spots in the billionaires’ club. Slim’s arrival at the top aroused both pride and anger in Mexico, where many see his fantastic wealth in a poverty-afflicted nation as a sign of what ails it. With a recovery in the value of his cell phone holdings pushing his estimated fortune to $53.5 billion, Slim jumped past Microsoft founder Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffett when Forbes magazine released its 2010 list of the world’s wealthiest Wednesday. The rise of Slim, the 70-yearold son of an immigrant shopkeeper, is just a part of the emergence of billionaires in developing countries, Forbes reporter Keren Blankfeld said. She noted this year’s top 10 richest also include two billionaires from India and one from Brazil. “They’re kind of spread. It’s a nice spread,” Blankfeld said of the list, which had long been dominated by Americans and Europeans. The full list showed Taiwan tripling its number of billionaires to 18, Turkey more than doubling to 28, and Brazil increasing by 50 percent to 18. Russia also re-
bounded, almost doubling its number of billionaires to 62 after stock markets there recovered from severe setbacks. Still, it is hardly time to mark the passing of U.S. dominance: The number American billionaires rose by more than 40 to 403. That is more than six times second-place China with 64 billionaires. That the single richest man on the list should come from Mexico has drawn frequent criticism given the country’s ongoing battles against poverty. “This is shameful,” said Ernesto Villanueva, 45, of Mexico City. “This is part of what is wrong with the Mexican political system and the corruption in the circles of power, that allow there to be a few rich people and millions of poor.” While Mexico belongs to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, whose 30 members constitute the world’s most important market economies, it is also a developing nation. More than 50 million of Mexico’s 107 million people live in poverty, defined as not having enough money to meet housing, transport, education and other normal expenses. Extreme poverty — defined as not having money to buy enough food — afflicted 19.5 million of them. But some Mexicans give Slim credit for knowing how to take advantage of the situation and make money. Continued on page 6
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FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2007 file photo, Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon, left, and Mexican businessman Carlos Slim arrive to inaugurated a private, nonprofit health institute in Mexico City. On March 10, 2010, Forbes announced that Slim claims the title of world’s richest person with a net worth of $53.5 billion.