Journalist assaulted and robbed while covering Villalta vote
Email this page February 2nd, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) A reporter for a French international news agency was locked in a bathroom and assaulted as Broad Front presidential candidate, Jose Maria Villalta…
Liberty Reserve founder says he was arrested after refusing to provide source code to FBI
Email this page January 28th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Arthur Budovsky, the man U.S. authorities accuse of being behind the “largest money laundering operation in history” told a Spanish court on Monday…
Accused founder of Liberty Reserve fights extradition to US
Email this page Editor’s note: This story is a follow up to a story published this morning. MADRID, January 27, 2014 (AFP) – The suspected founder of one of the…
Suspect who operated “largest money laundering operation in history” from Costa Rica fighting extradition to US
Email this page January 27th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Arthur Budovsky, the man accused of founding Costa Rica-based Liberty Reserve, has decided to fight U.S. efforts to extradite him from Spain, according…
Reports: man who escaped prison dressed as a woman to fool guards
Email this page January 23rd, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Bryan Cordero Obando, 25, who escaped from La Reforma Prison on January 19th, dressed as a woman in order to escape with prison…
Authorities raid two San José massage parlors; arrest two on pimping charges
Email this page January 23rd, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Agents of the Sex Crimes Unit of the Judicial Investigation Organization (OIJ) and municipal police officers raided two San José massage parlors yesterday…
Operation Martillo: 2 recent busts continue success
Email this page By Ezra Fieser / ISH January 23, 2014 (ISH) The United States and the British Royal navies recently made separate narcotics seizures, marking continued success for Operation…
Man arrested for alleged modeling scam
Email this page January 22nd, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Agents of the Judicial Investigation Organization (OIJ) arrested yesterday morning a man accused of operating a scam that targeted hopeful models. The…
