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Whizzkid swindler
LONDON. 5 : A 16-year-old Briton, posing as a whizzkid financier. flew in private jets, got a loan on a mansion and treated girlfriends to champagne suppers as he carried out swindles worth at least one million dollars, a court heard, reports Reuter.
Britain's The Sun newspaper dubbed Mark Ackiom Kid Con' today after the courtroom statements about the boy's sensational spree.
A London prosecutor said he began by using his father's credit card. He shopped at Harrods, the upper crust London store, and entertained a girlfriend In the presidential suite of the Grand Hqtel in the fashionable seaside resort of Brighton.
Later he conned a big loan company into giving him a mortgage of 466.000 pounds sterling (750.000 dollars) on a house In exclusive Dulwich, a London suburb where former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had planned to retire from politics.
Prosecutor David Fisher said that as a pupil at his elite college Ackiom found he was able to deceive... people that he was a successful financier.
After leaving school he carried a mobile telephone to keep In touch with his contacts and duped people into thinking he was a highly-paid stockbroker aged 25.
One unpaid bill, for him and his guests' fly to Parts. Berne and Tenerife, came to nearly 35.000 pounds sterling (55.000 dollars).
But when police arrested him. he confessed that his bank account could guarantee a cheque for only., one pound.
Now 18. he admitted theft of the credit card and obtaining money, property and a mortgage by deception.
The court remanded him on bail on Thursday until August 2 pending reports.
The loan company said ft had checked his credit worthiness. It was now re-examining its procedures.
Reversal of Japan's nemesis
TOKYO ■ Nearly one quarter of Japanese people believe that the United States has supplanted the Soviet Union, king considered Japan's chief nemesis, as the top threat to their nation, a newspaper said Friday, reports AP.
Some 24 per cent of respondents to a survey conducted last month by the mass-circulation Yomiuri newspaper said the United States has replaced the Soviet Union as the top threat to Japan, the newspaper reported
Two years ago. in the last poll "of this type." the Soviet Union was named the top threat by 33 per cent of respondents. white 11 per cent said the United States topped the list
Tills year, the Soviet Union was cited by 22 per cent of the 3,000 randomly selected respondents as the country's number one threat.
Younger respondents were more wary of. the United States than their elders, with 33 per cent of those In their 20s citing the United States as the country from which Japan had the most to fear. Some 27 per cent of respondents tn their 30s cited the United States as the top threat, white 24 per cent of those in their 40s and 19 per cent of those in their 50s made the same observation.
The erosion of bilateral relations because of trade frictions and US discontent with Japan's rote tn the Gulf war has made the United States more threatening white the end of the Cold War has diminished the danger posed by the Soviet Union, the paper quoted unidentified analysts as saying
North Korea. China and South Korea were named as the next most threatening countries.