Monthly Archives: November 2013

Daimler lobbyist investigated by Berlin prosecutors

Daimler lobbyist investigated by Berlin prosecutors

Berlin prosecutors are investigating ex-German state minister Eckart von Klaeden over a potential conflict of interest after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s former ally joined carmaker Daimler as a lobbyist, a spokeswoman for the prosecutors confirmed on Sunday after a media report.

UK Government reveals plans to cut cost of motoring

UK Government reveals plans to cut cost of motoring

Whiplash cheats are to be targeted in plans announced by the Government today to drive down the cost of motoring.

£1.8m eBay car fraudster sought by FBI

FBI hunts £1.8m eBay car fraudster

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the USA has issued a wanted poster for Nicolae Popescu, a Romanian man they suspect of leading a “sophisticated internet fraud scheme where criminal conspirators, posted advertisements on internet auction sites for merchandise for sale”.

Fake ‘ghost’ car insurance on the rise in UK

‘Ghost brokering’ fake insurance policies is on the rise in the UK, becoming one of the latest fraud scams in a long line of car insurance rip-offs.

According to anti-scam website Action Fraud, around 20,000 British motorists have already fallen foul of this new form of car insurance crime – so what is ghost brokering and how can you avoid it?

Driverless car trial to start in Milton Keynes

Driverless car trial to start in Milton Keynes with pods similar to that used by Heathrow Business Parking

Driverless cars are starting to look less and less like science fiction and much more like a realistic vision of our near future – and now the first UK trial of the technology is set to start in Milton Keynes in 2015.