Whether or not it contributes to ‘science,’ Japan’s slaughter of hundreds of endangered sei whales annually is breaking international agreements, said an international body governing the trade in endangered species on Tuesday.
A federal court sentenced a Honduran citizen Wednesday to more than three years in prison for conspiracy to launder over US$1 million in bribes and funds misappropriated from the Honduran social security agency, a U.S. Department of Justice press release said.
Costa Rican authorities announced on Wednesday that they have detained two women wanted by their home country of Romania after being sentenced for abuse of power and corruption.
Authorities in Turkey detained 216 out of the 417 people prosecutors issued warrants for, charging them with money laundering and financing terrorism, state-run news agency Anadolu Agency said on Tuesday.
After the U.S. Federal Reserve froze transactions with the Central Bank of Liberia as a part of an ongoing investigation into the mysterious disappearance of US$104 million earlier this year, Liberia’s new central bank governor suddenly denied the money had ever been missing.
An Islamabad court allowed on Tuesday the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), the country’s anti-graft watchdog, to seize the bank accounts, control the properties, and auction the assets of a former finance minister who fled the country after a corruption investigation was launched against him, the Daily Pakistan reported.
The day before his wife was arrested over her ties to a scandal that saw some US$4.5 billion dollars looted from a state investment fund, beleaguered Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak went on Facebook to vent his frustration about how everyone makes everything his fault.
On Tuesday, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, OFAC, announced it had sanctioned two companies and four people in Japan that are allegedly connected to the most prolific Yakuza syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi.
New eyewitness reports say that the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), an armed insurgent group in Myanmar, is extorting money from vehicles traveling along the Mandalay-Muse highway in the war-torn Shan state in the country’s north.
The U.S. Federal Reserve has frozen transactions with the Central Bank of Liberia as a part of an ongoing investigation into the mysterious disappearance of US$104 million earlier this year, FrontPage Africa reported.