Meanwhile, the police are questioning the owner of the property, who says he had no idea of the counterfeiting operation that existed on the property.

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Since 2003 British Airways, led by Chief Executive William "Willie" Walsh , has shut large call centers in London, Glasgow and Toronto, though even with those closures, there was still "too much property for the size of our operation, " according to George.

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He also said that a specific type of intellectual property cited in the suit, the so-called "shared libraries" used in the operation of Unix, was "one of seven or eight" different types of IP which SCO is investigating for IP violations by Linux developers.

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In November Mr Rampl reshuffled his board, appointing Johann Berger to take over corporate banking and property, and Christine Licci, former head of Citigroup's German retail-banking operation, to revamp the retail business.

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When he left in 1995 to become chief operating officer of MBf Capital, Leisure Holidays had become a fast-growing operation selling time-share property across Asia.

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