Car crash death of Swedish artist who drew cartoons of Mohammed may have been caused by burst tyre - Daily Mail

Car crash death of Swedish artist who survived murder attempts after drawing Mohammed may have been caused by burst tyre – but cops can't explain why police protection officer was driving at 100mph

• Lars Vilks, 75, died in a crash after his car veered onto the other side of the road
• Investigators believe a tyre may have burst on the police protection car
• But they do not know why it was travelling an estimated 100mph in a 68mph area

By Jack Newman For Mailonline

Published: 15:16 BST, 4 October 2021 | Updated: 15:45 BST, 4 October 2021

Swedish police investigating the car crash death of a controversial artist who had survived multiple assassination attempts after drawing a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed cannot explain why his car was travelling so fast.

Lars Vilks, 75, was killed Sunday when the police car he was travelling in veered onto the wrong side of the road and collided with a truck. 

Both vehicles caught fire and the truck driver, 45, was taken to hospital with serious injuries, while the two police protection officers and Vilks were all killed.

Investigators believe there were no external influences that led to the death of the artist and say the crash may have been caused by a burst tyre.

But they are unable to explain why the car was travelling at around 100mph, witnesses say, in a 68mph zone.

Lars Vilks, 75, was killed Sunday when the police car he was travelling in veered onto the wrong side of the road and collided with a truck

Investigators believe there were no external influences that led to the death of the controversial artist

Police chief Carina Persson said: 'Normally, you must follow the speed limits and traffic rules that apply. 

'In some situations, the police have the opportunity to drive at other speeds, in urgent cases and urgent service.'

Asked whether there was any indication why the car would have been in a rush, Ms Persson replied: 'I have no such information.'

Police say at present, there is nothing to suggest the crash was anything other than an accident.

Investigators have found remains of a tyre on the road before the car veered through the metal barriers on the central reservation, into the path of the truck.

The car carrying Mr Vilks was reportedly travelling at a high speed before it veered into the other lane and collided with the truck, becoming wedged underneath it. Both vehicles caught fire (pictured)

They believe the size of the car, weighing an estimated 4.5 tonnes, helped it push through the crash barrier which is normally meant to prevent such incidents occurring.

A police probe is still looking into whether there was any foul play, while another investigation is focusing on gross negligence by the police driver. 

The car was being followed by another police escort car, whose officers are being interviewed as witnesses.

Stefan Sinteus, head of the regional investigation unit, said: 'We do not yet know the reason why the bodyguard car has crossed the wrong lane. 

A police probe is still looking into whether there was any foul play, while another investigation is focusing on gross negligence by the police driver

'We have found tyre remains, so we are looking at the possibility if there could have been a tyre explosion or similar.' 

The truck driver, 45, remains in hospital with serious injuries. 

The collision occurred just before 3pm in Markaryd, in the province of Kronoberg, Sweden. 

National Police Chief Anders Thornberg said: 'It is with dismay and great sadness that I received the news that our two colleagues and our security person died this afternoon. 

'My thoughts go out to their relatives, families, friends and co-workers. 

'I am also in contact with the police in the region to make sure that they get the support they need.'

The relatives of Mr Vilks and the two officers have been notified.  

The truck driver was airlifted to hospital by helicopter, where he will be questioned by police over what happened.     

The section of the road has reportedly been rebuilt several times in recent years to improve traffic safety.   

Vilks was largely unknown outside Sweden before 2007, when he drew a sketch of Mohammed with a dog's body. 

Dogs are considered unclean by conservative Muslims and Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet, even favourable, for fear it could lead to idolatry.

Al-Qaeda put a bounty on Vilks' head. In 2010, two men tried to burn down his house in southern Sweden.

Since that time, Vilks was forced to live under police protection, 'due to the fact that he made use of his freedom of expression and his artistic freedom,' Lind said Monday.

Over the years he continued to face death threats.

In 2014, a woman from Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in a plot to kill him.

The following year, a free-speech seminar that Vilks attended in Copenhagen, Denmark, was attacked by a lone gunman who killed a Danish film director and wounded three police officers.

Pakistani protesters shout anti-Swedish slogans during a protest in Lahore against Vilks

Vilks, who was widely believed to have been the intended target of that 2015 attack, was whisked away unharmed by bodyguards. The gunman later killed a Jewish security guard outside a synagogue and wounded two more officers before he was killed in a firefight with police. 

Born in 1946 in Helsingborg, in southern Sweden, Vilks worked as an artist for almost four decades and rose to fame for challenging the boundaries of art through several controversial works.

His most famous pieces included 'Nimis' - a sculpture of driftwood built without permission in Sweden's Kullaberg nature reserve - as well as Prophet Muhammad drawings, including the one that showed the prophet as a dog.

Vilks initially planned to display the drawing at an exhibit at a Swedish cultural heritage center, but the drawing was removed over security concerns. 

It went largely unnoticed until a Swedish newspaper printed the drawing with an editorial defending freedom of expression.

Several of his works, including driftwood sculptures and Mohammad drawings, including the one showing the Muslim prophet's head on the body of a dog, are currently on display in Warsaw, Poland. 

The works are being shown as part an exhibition curated by a right-wing director that aims to challenge left-wing political correctness.

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Pandora Papers expose wealth of Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s allies - Al Jazeera English

Prominent members of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government, donors to his party and family members of the country’s powerful military generals have moved millions of dollars of wealth through offshore companies, a new investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) alleges.

Khan, who rose to power in 2018 on the back of promises to arrest Pakistan’s “corrupt” political elites, was not personally named in the newly leaked documents, dubbed the Pandora Papers, which were released late on Sunday.

Two members of Khan’s cabinet – Water Resources Minister Moonis Elahi and Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin – were prominent in the leaks, alongside more than 700 other Pakistani citizens, including family members of several high-ranking military officials, donors to Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party and opposition political leaders’ families.

The ICIJ’s investigation is based on more than 11.9 million confidential files leaked from 14 offshore financial services firms.

Ownership of offshore holding companies is not illegal in most countries, and does not indicate wrongdoing, but the instrument is frequently used to avoid tax liability or to maintain secrecy around large financial transactions.

Khan on Sunday said his government would “investigate all our citizens mentioned in the Pandora Papers [and] if any wrongdoing is established we will take appropriate action”.

We welcome the Pandora Papers exposing the ill-gotten wealth of elites, accumulated through tax evasion & corruption & laundered out to financial "havens". The UN SG's Panel FACTI calculated a staggering $7 trillion in stolen assets parked in largely offshore tax havens.

— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) October 3, 2021

The revelations about the large financial transactions of former members of Pakistan’s military offer a rare glimpse into the wealth of those belonging to an institution that has ruled the country for almost half of its 74-year history.

The military is also “the largest conglomerate of business entities in Pakistan, besides being the country’s biggest urban real estate developer and manager, with wide-ranging involvement in the construction of public projects”, according to a 2021 United Nations report.

The ICIJ leak named five former high-ranking military officers, including a former air force chief and two lieutenant-generals in the army, as being linked to large offshore investments in property and commercial enterprises.

Ministers in the crosshairs

Finance Minister Tarin has denied any wrongdoing in his being named as the director and beneficial owner of Triperna Inc, a holding company established in the Seychelles in 2014, saying that the company was to be used for an investment transaction into a bank that he owned which did not take place.

Pakistan’s Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin is named in the leaks and has denied any wrongdoing [File: Farooq Naeem/AFP]

“No account was opened, no transactions were made,” he told Pakistani television channel Geo News on Sunday night, following the revelations.

“Before it could happen there was a bomb blast in Karachi, and Tariq bin Laden [the potential investor, a Saudi national] became disinterested in our bank.”

Tarin said the company never held any assets and was closed soon thereafter.

The case of Moonis Elahi, Pakistan’s current water resources minister, appears to be more complicated, with the ICIJ investigation alleging Elahi sought to invest $5.6m from an alleged loan scandal into a trust through international financial services provider Asiaciti Trust in January 2016.

Asiaciti Trust accepted Elahi as a client a month later, despite a risk assessment commissioned by the company identifying his involvement in “several corrupt land development projects” during his time as a provincial politician in Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province.

Elahi’s father, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, is one of the province’s highest profile politicians, and had previously served as chief minister of Punjab in the military government of General Pervez Musharraf.

The Elahis served as key allies of Musharraf throughout his tenure, until he resigned in 2008, and were frequently accused of involvement in multimillion-dollar corruption.

In 2007, authorities found that the Bank of Punjab, owned by the then Elahi-led provincial government, had reportedly issued $608m in unsecured loans, many to companies owned by the families or friends of political leaders or to the bank’s own directors. When the loans were not recovered, the provincial government paid to bail out the bank.

The $5.6m transaction proposed by Elahi to Asiaciti Trust was allegedly made from proceeds from Bank of Punjab loans, ICIJ says.

Asiaciti Trust proposed Elahi invest the money in a vehicle that would own two properties in the United Kingdom, and also identified the Pakistan-based RYK sugar mill as a potential investment.

Ultimately, however, Elahi backed out of the deal when Asiaciti Trust said they would have to inform Pakistan’s tax authority, the Federal Board of Revenue, about the transaction, records show.

In 2017, public records show Elahi’s wife used a UK shell company to transfer a London apartment, valued at $8.2m, to a woman named Mahrukh Jahangir for no monetary exchange. A woman with the same name as Jahangir appears on public documents as a 9.4 percent shareholder in RYK Mills, ICIJ reported.

Elahi denies any wrongdoing, and a spokesperson for the minister, whose Pakistan Muslim League-Q is a PTI coalition partner, blamed the allegations on “political victimisation”.

PM Khan’s backers

Elahi and Tarin were not the only high-ranking members of PM Khan’s PTI party to be named in the Pandora Papers.

Others whose holdings have been exposed include the son of the prime minister’s former finance and revenue adviser Waqar Masood Khan, the brother of Industries Minister Khusro Bakhtyar, and former water resources minister, Faisal Vawda.

Omer Bakhtyar, the minister’s brother, was shown to have transferred a $1m apartment in the Chelsea area of London to his mother through an offshore company in 2018, the same year Khan’s PTI swept to power.

Two key financial backers of Khan’s PTI party were also named in the Pandora Papers: disgraced banker Arif Naqvi and prominent businessman Tariq Shafi.

Naqvi, a major donor to Khan’s 2013 election campaign, transferred ownership of three luxury apartments, a country estate and a suburban London property in the UK, to an offshore trust operated by Deutsche Bank in 2017, the files show.

Naqvi has subsequently been charged by US prosecutors with more than $400m in fraud, and is facing extradition to that country while resident in the UK.

Shafi, another large PTI donor, was shown to hold $215m through offshore companies, according to the Pandora Papers.

Rare military revelations

The Pandora Papers also offer a rare glimpse into the wealth held by former members of the country’s powerful military, which has used the alleged corruption of civilian political leaders to justify seizing power three times in the country’s history.

The Pandora Papers show that in 2007, the wife of Lieutenant-General Shafaat Ullah Khan, a prominent general and key ally of then-President General Musharraf, acquired a $1.2m apartment through an offshore transaction.

Shah denied any wrongdoing in responses to the ICIJ.

Major-General Nusrat Naeem, a former director-general of counterintelligence at Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), owned a company in the British Virgin Islands that was registered in 2009, shortly after he retired.

Naeem was later accused of $1.7m in fraud related to the purchase of a steel mill. The case was dropped and he denies any wrongdoing.

Raja Nadir Pervez, a retired army lieutenant-colonel and former government minister, is shown to have owned a British Virgin Islands-registered company that has been related to major transactions “in machinery and related businesses to India, Thailand, Russia and China”, the ICIJ says.

“Records show that in 2003, Pervez transferred his shares in the company to a trust that controls several offshore companies,” the ICIJ reported. “One of the trust’s beneficiaries is a British arms dealer.”

Following his retirement, Pervez transitioned to politics, first being elected to parliament in 1985. In 2013, Pervez joined Imran Khan’s PTI party.

Other military-linked Pakistanis to be named in the Pandora Papers include two sons of former Pakistani Air Force chief Abbas Khattak, who in 2010 registered a British Virgin Islands company; and the daughter of a retired lieutenant-general who owns two apartments in one of London’s most expensive neighbourhoods through an offshore trust.

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Lars Vilks: Muhammad cartoonist killed in traffic collision - media reports - BBC News

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A Swedish artist who sketched the Prophet Muhammad's head on a dog's body has died in a traffic accident, according to local media.

Lars Vilks was reportedly travelling in a civilian police vehicle which collided with a truck near the town of Markaryd in southern Sweden.

Two police officers were also killed and the truck driver was injured.

Vilks, 75, lived under police protection after being subjected to death threats over the cartoon.

The cartoon, published in 2007, offended many Muslims who regard visual representation of the Prophet as blasphemous. It came a year after a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet.

Police have not revealed the identity of those killed in Sunday's incident, but Vilks's partner confirmed his death to Dagens Nyheter newspaper.

A statement from police said it was still unclear how the collision occurred, but initially there was nothing to suggest that anyone else was involved.

The cartoon caused outrage and led then Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to meet ambassadors from 22 Muslim countries in an attempt to defuse the situation.

Shortly afterwards, al-Qaeda in Iraq offered a $100,000 (£73,692) reward for his murder.

In 2015, Vilks attended a debate on free speech that was targeted in a gun attack in Copenhagen. He said he was probably the target of the attack, which killed a film director.

Although he is most famous for his sketch of Muhammad as a dog, Vilks was an artist and activist who often worked with paint or created installations.

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Frances Haugen: Facebook whistleblower reveals identity - BBC News

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A former Facebook whistleblower responsible for a series of bombshell leaks has revealed her identity.

Frances Haugen, 37, who worked as a product manager on the vivid misinformation team at Facebook, was interviewed on Sunday by CBS.

She said the documents she leaked proved that Facebook repeatedly prioritised "growth over safety".

Facebook said the leaks were misleading and glossed over positive research conducted by the company.

In the interview, on CBS's 60 Minutes programme, Ms Haugen said she had left Facebook earlier this year after becoming exasperated with the company. Before departing, she copied a series of internal memos and documents.

She shared those documents with the Wall Street Journal, which has been releasing the material in batches over the last three weeks - sometimes referred to as the Facebook Files.

Revelations included documents that showed that celebrities, politicians and high profile Facebook users were treated differently by the company. The leaks revealed that moderation policies were applied differently or not at all to such accounts - a system known as XCheck (cross-check).

Another leak showed that Facebook was also facing a complex lawsuit from a group of its own shareholders.

The group alleges, among other things, that Facebook's $5bn (£3.65bn) payment to the US Federal Trade Commission to resolve the Cambridge Analytica data scandal was so high because it was designed to protect Mark Zuckerberg from personal liability.

But its allegations about Instagram that have been particularly worrying to US politicians.

• Facebook Files: 5 things leaked documents reveal
• Facebook under fire over secret teen research
• Instagram for kids paused after backlash

Internal research by Facebook (which owns Instagram) found that Instagram was impacting the mental health of teenagers but did not share its findings when they suggested that the platform was a "toxic" place for many youngsters.

According to slides reported by the Wall Street Journal, 32% of teenage girls surveyed said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse.

Ms Haugen will testify before a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday in a hearing titled "Protecting Kids Online", about the company's research into Instagram's effect on the mental health of young users.

Last week, a Facebook executive testified to US senators that the leaks had failed to highlight the positive impact the platform had on teens.

However, Ms Haugen was damning in her assessment of her former employer.

"There were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook," she said.

"Facebook over and over again chose to optimise for its own interests, like making more money."

Ms Haugen also talked about the deadly Capitol Hill riots in January - claiming that Facebook helped fuel the violence.

She said Facebook turned on safety systems to reduce misinformation during the US election - but only temporarily.

"As soon as the election was over they turned them back off, or they changed the settings to what they were before, to prioritise growth over safety, and that really feels like a betrayal of democracy."

Appearing on CNN, Vice President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg said it was ludicrous to suggest Facebook was responsible for the riots.

"I think it gives people false comfort to assume that there must be a technological, or technical, explanation for the issues of political polarisation in the United States," he said.

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Eight killed as plane crashes into building near Milan - Guardian News

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Pandora Papers: Document leak reveals secrets of how powerful stash their cash - Sky News

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One of Romania's richest men is among eight people killed as plane smashes into Milan office block - Daily Mail

One of Romania's richest men, his wife and son, 30, are killed in Milan air crash: Billionaire was at controls of private plane when it smashed into empty suburban office block killing eight including a young boy

• Dan Petrescu, 68, was reportedly piloting the plane at the time of the crash
• Wife and 30-year-old son Daniel were also killed in crash, local media said
• The private aircraft crashed into an vacant two-story office building on Sunday
• Crash happened in a Milanese suburb and killed all eight people on board  
• Firefighters have said no one was in the building at the time of the impact
• Plane's flight recorder has been recovered and an investigation into the cause of the crash has been launched 

By Charlotte Mitchell For Mailonline and Wires

Published: 20:32 BST, 3 October 2021 | Updated: 00:23 BST, 4 October 2021

Property developer Dan Petrescu (pictured) was 68 years old and was reportedly piloting the plane at the time of the crash

A property developer considered to be 'one of the richest men in Romania' has been named as one of the victims of a plane crash in Milan today.  

A small, single-engine plane carrying six passengers and a crew of two crashed into a vacant two-story office building in the suburb of San Donato Milanese on Sunday afternoon, killing everyone on board including a boy.

By early evening, only two of the eight dead had been identified, since they carried documents on them, authorities said. 

Those aboard were 'all foreigners,' Milan Prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano told reporters at the scene, including the pilot, who was Romanian.  The aircraft was registered in Romania, she added. 

Italy's RaiNews reported that one of the victims was Dan Petrescu, a major real estate developer, who the outlet described as being 'considered one of the richest men in Romania.' 

Petrescu was 68 years old and had dual Romanian and German citizenship, the outlet reported, adding that he was piloting the plane at the time of the crash.

Rai reported that his son Dan Stefan Petrescu, a 30-year-old with dual Romanian and German citizenship, and wife, a 65-year-old with dual Romanian and French citizenship, also died in the crash along with five unidentified people including a young boy. 

Corriere della Serra reported that the family was heading to their villa in Olbia, Sardinia, where Petrescu's 98-year-old mother was waiting for them. 

A small plane has crashed killing eight people, including six passengers and two crew members, in Milan, Italy. Pictured: Firefighters work at the building on which a small private plane crashed into the San Donato Milanese district in Milan

Firefighters said the blaze spread to several cars in front of the empty building but they were also unoccupied at the time

Firefighters tackle the flames that had spread to several cars in front of the building after a small plane crashed in Italy

The plane crashed into a two story building and firefighters have said that no-one other than those onboard were involved

Corriere, citing Romanian media, reported that Petrescu's son worked as a researcher in Canada and had arrived in Italy to attend the baptism of his friends' child. 

The newspaper said Petrescu bought the plane in 2015 together with Vova Cohn, a former shareholder of the Dinamo Bucharest football club. 

Investigators have opened a probe into what caused the private plane to crash just 11 minutes after takeoff from Milan's Linate Airport en route to Olbia Airport on the island of Sardinia.

A thick column of dark smoke rose from the crash site and was visible for kilometres. Several unoccupied cars parked nearby went up in flames.

Firefighters tweeted that no one else but those on board was involved in the early afternoon crash near a subway station in San Donato Milanese, a small town near Milan. 

The building was undergoing renovations but, as it was Sunday, no workers were on site at the time of the crash. 

Siciliano said the plane was proceeding on its flight until 'a certain point, then an anomaly appeared on the radar screen and it plunged,' striking the building's roof.

Control tower officials reported the anomaly, she said, but further details were not immediately given.

Pictures show a thick column of dark smoke arising from the crash site as well as extensive debris surrounding the crash site

Metallic pieces lie near the crash site where the plane came down in San Donato in Milan, northern Italy, earlier today

The plane was a Pilatus PC-12 single engined aircraft (pictured in the stock image above)

Italy's Corriere della Serra newspaper reported that Petrescu bought the plane in 2015 together with Vova Cohn, a former shareholder of the Dinamo Bucharest football club [Stock image]

Pictured: Firefighters work on the site of a plane crash, in San Donato Milanese suburb of Milan, Italy, on Sunday afternoon

Pictured: Carabinieri officers stand on the site of a plane crash, in San Donato Milanese suburb of Milan earlier this afternoon

The prosecutor said the plane did not send out any alarm signal. It was too early to cite any possible cause for the crash, Siciliano said, adding that the flight recorder has been retrieved. 

The reports said the aircraft had flown from Bucharest, Romania, to Milan on September 30 with no apparent problem.

Witnesses told local media that they heard an unusual noise, like a whistle, followed by a loud bang, then saw a fireball when they looked out of the window.  

The Italian news agency ANSA quoted the national air safety agency ANSV as saying 'the plane hit the building and started burning.' It said the aircraft was a PC-12, a single-engine, executive-type plane.

Fire officials said earlier that the aircraft had crashed into the building's facade. But following further inspection, the prosecutor said it was apparent that the plane had struck the roof.

Firefighters extinguished the flames at the badly charred and gutted building, which reportedly was under renovation.

Specialist equipment was used by firefighters on the scene to tackle the blaze that broke out after the plane crashed

Pictured: Italian police stand by as firefighters work at the site of a plane crash, in San Donato Milanese suburb of Milan, Italy

It is thought the plane was heading from Milan's Linate airport and the Italian island of Sardinia. Pictured: the scene today

Firefighters and police forces stand next to the impact point of the plane, which took off from the nearby Milan Linate airport

Emergency services and investigators surround the crash site after a small private plane struck an empty building in Italy

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