European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes world sunday. February 14,1993 Cia suspect a millionaire a n is say Islamabad Pakistan up pakistani officials said Friday a Man suspected in the shooting deaths of two Cia employees is a millionaire whose family owns hotels and shopping centers in Pakistan. The officials also said Mir animal Kanji who was working for a Virginia Cou Rier Agency at the time of the shootings had no apparent links to any political group in Pakistan. Meanwhile a government official in Islamabad said an Fri team had already arrived in the country to search for the suspect. But a . Embassy spokesman in Islamabad said we arc neither con firming nor denying the arrival of the Fri scam r in Washington pakistani embassy spokesman Malik Zahoor said his embassy had Given visas to a number of Fri Anocia agents to visit Pakistan to search for Kanji. He said the agents however did not receive permission to transport or carry weapons with them. However Zahoor said he thinks kans is no longer in Pakistan. I have this Hunch that he has slipped into Iran or Afghanistan he said. If that is the Case we will never find  allegedly killed two Cia employees and wounded three other people in a shooting spree outside the Agency head quarters on Jan. 25. Investigators recovered from his res ton va., residence an automatic ak-47 Rifle used in the shootings. Pakistani officials said Kanji became wealthy when he inherited valuable prop erty upon the 1989 death of his father Abdullah Jan Kanji. He sold his share to family members for millions of dollars and transferred millions into his foreign accounts before he left for the United states officials said. The Kanji tribe of ethnic Pashtoon to which the suspect belongs is wealthy and influential. Kanji s family owns hotels shopping centers cinemas and High Rise buildings in most major pakistani cities and is said to own halt of Quetta a City of about 500,000 people and the capital of the Southern Baluchistan province. Pakistani officials said Kanji had been seen in Quetta until wednesday. The said he disappeared after the Story about his alleged involvement in the Cia shoot Ings appeared in local news reports. The Cia is believed to have operate from Quetta during the afghan War when Muslim rebels fought against the soviet occupation from 1979-89. The United states and Pakistan backed the Muslim rebels during the War. But pakistani officials said Kanji apparently took no part in the afghan War and had no apparent political links. However they said Kanji might have taken Refuge with tribesmen in Afghani Stan. Part of the Kanji tribe also lives i Afghanistan and is As wealthy and influential As the Kansis in Pakistan. Witness to a drought a cow s Skull near Santo Aleixo in Southern Portugal attests to the lengthy dry spell that has plagued the nation. The drought is now 2 years old and is considered by some to be the nation s worst in 50 years. As a result of the arid conditions Portugal has experienced a major loss in live Stock and vegetation. Thugs in India wreak havoc in Snake Park new Delhi India up armed thugs overran rare International Snake Park in Southern India killing More than 100 species of snakes including a prize King cobra and wreaking widespread devastation the press Trust of India reported Friday. The news Agency quoted police As saying that the attack was rooted in a political rivalry in the area and was directed at a state minister who had founded the Snake Park. The Parussini Kasaku Snake Park which is in the narrow coastal state of Kerala housed rare species of snakes As Well As some Birds and animals. The attackers poured gasoline on the cages of the rep tiles Birds and animals and set them ablaze pit said. The King cobra a Large poisonous Snake was beaten to death and its air conditioned Cage reduced to soldering ashes the report said. Wielding axes,.the thugs also butchered 10 other co bras seven turtles 30 White rats 30 rabbits two peacocks six migratory Birds three vultures a Python and several porcupines in the 3-acre Park the Agency said. Pit said a lion tailed macaque lost one foot in the at tack which occurred late wednesday. A number of crocodiles rabbits monkeys and Lizard were wounded in the orgy of violence which also left an adjacent herbal Medicine Hospital in ruins the report added. Teen chess Whiz takes 5-3 Lead Budapest Hungary a teen age chess Whiz Judit Polgar the youngest grandmas Ter Ever beat former world Champion Boris spas sky Friday to Clinch at least a tie in their $200,000,10-game exhibition match. The 16-year-old hungarian the world s top ranked woman player leads Spassky 5-3. She needs Only a draw in either of the last two games to claim outright Victory Over the 56-year-old native russian and the Winner s share of $110,000.the loser gets $90,000. Playing White in the eighth game Polgar used a Spanish opening As she has at every Opportunity against Spassky. Spassky is ranked in a tic for 96th in world rankings compiled by the world chess federation fide while Polgar is no. 1 in the women s rank Ings and tied for 53rd in the men s rankings. The match is being staged by yugoslav entrepreneur Jezdimir Vasiljevic chairman of Yugo scandic Bank. He is bidding to sponsor the world championship match later this year Between reigning Champion Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short of Britain. The ninth game is scheduled for today. Yeltsin attacks organized crime at highest Levels of government Moscow a organized crime and corruption at the top reaches of government threaten to under mine Russia s economic reforms president Boris  told a Kremlin meeting Friday. Yeltsin calling organized crime Russia s no. 1 prob Lem also said the number of crimes committed with firearms doubled last year the president said the defense ministry was Selling ammunition and he blamed the Central Bank and ministry of finance for speculating on the Ruble tomake huge profits. Corrupted structures on the highest level have no interest in reforms he said. Security officials uncovered More than 4,000 organized crime groups in Russia in 1992, and about a Quarter of them had links overseas or ties to former soviet republics the Nezah Ishimaya gazeta newspaper reported Friday. The newspaper said the government expects an in crease in organized crime. Many of the groups Are networks of old communist party members. Others Are bands of ethnic groups especially from the caucasus. The groups launder Money sell state property and Trade in drugs alcohol and cigarettes. The collapse of communist Rule has benefited organized crime. Many police officials Are corrupt the once nearly impenetrable soviet Border has become porous and just about everything in the country is for Safe. Organized crime has become the no. 1 threat to Russia s strategic interests and to National Security the itar Tass news Agency quoted Yeltsin As saying atthe meeting devoted to fighting the underworld. Yeltsin said criminals were offering bribes to obtain Export licenses preferential credits Low prices on the Purchase of state property and special conditions forgetting up businesses. His audience included officials from the defense Interior and Justice ministries As Well As local officials from across  said officials at the defense ministry were stealing entire ammunition depots without fear of being caught. Nearly 40 percent of Russia s new class of business men and two thirds of its commercial structures had ties to the growing criminal world the president  president said the ministry of foreign economic relations which handles Russia s overseas Trade the Central Bank and the ministry of finance were seeking to weaken the  Ruble has fallen dramatically Over the last year making russian products and raw materials  russian products including Oil and precious metals Are bought for rubles and then illegally resold overseas for hard currency. The profits can be huge