Briefs, February 17, 2013
Former Los Angeles policeman Christopher Dorner, who launched a reign of terror against former colleagues and their families, died from a single gunshot wound to the head, a coroner said.
LOS ANGELES - Former Los Angeles policeman Christopher Dorner, who launched a reign of terror against former colleagues and their families, died from a single gunshot wound to the head, a coroner said. "The information we have seems to indicate that the wound that took Christopher Dorner's life was self-inflicted," the coroner said. Reuters
WASHINGTON - Bae Soo "Chris" Chon, 49, who owned US company Mirage Cosmetics, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for evading US$522,650 in US federal and state taxes after admitting tax evasion by diverting proceeds from foreign distributors to accounts in Hong Kong and South Korea. In the autumn of 2008, Chon began diverting money into the bank account of a shell company at HSBC in Hong Kong. The shell company, Giant Century Holdings, was bought from a Hong Kong firm that specialised in setting up offshore shell entities. Bloomberg