■ EGYPT
Millionaire fraudster jailed
A man was sentenced to 1,000 years behind bars on Thursday after scamming hundreds of people out of about US$52 million, a court official said. The Giza criminal court sentenced Abdullah Kamel Mohammed, 42, for cheating 480 people out of their money over several years. “He would promise people that he would invest their money for them and bring them good profits, but he would take the money and disappear,” the source said. Mohammed was arrested in Cairo in November after a neighbor who had been conned recognized him and called the police.
■ AUSTRIA
Man hacks family to death
A man has confessed to hacking his wife, daughter, parents and father-in-law to death with an ax because he had money problems, police said on Wednesday. The suspect, identified only as Reinhard S, 39, by police at a news conference in Vienna, turned himself in on Wednesday, saying: “The bodies of my dead wife and child are lying in my flat.” Police found the body of the suspect’s wife Barbara, 42, in the bathroom, and of his daughter Natalie, seven, in a walk-in closet. The killing spree did not stop there. The suspect drove to Ansfelden, 180km west of Vienna, where he axed to death his mother Gabriela, 69, and his father Engelbert, 72. He then drove to Linz, where he murdered his father in law Heinrich R, 80, investigator Thomas Stecher told reporters.
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