Fiji Seizes US$ 300 million Superyacht Belonging to Sanctioned Russian Oligarch
At the request of U.S. authorities, police on the Pacific island of Fiji seized last week the US$300 million superyacht of sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov.
At the request of U.S. authorities, police on the Pacific island of Fiji seized last week the US$300 million superyacht of sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov.
The operator of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP,) has settled with the U.S government for facilitating tens of millions of illegal telemarketing calls that, amongst other things, spread COVID-19 disinformation.
Swiss bankers defended on Tuesday the decision of a parliamentary commission not to strike down the controversial article 47 from the country’s banking secrecy law that has been criticized by the UN, journalists and human rights advocates as violating press freedom.
In order to throw a wrench into the Russian war machine’s advances, the United Kingdom, the United States and their European allies imposed a broad range of new sanctions across various sectors, with talks of halting all future oil imports to the EU in the works as well.
An unknown man threatened a prominent Azerbaijani journalist with a knife and ordered her to stop reporting about a controversial murder trial she had been covering.
Violence erupted throughout Colombia over the weekend after the government extradited the head of the notorious drug trafficking organization “Clan del Golfo” to the United States, where he is facing a life sentence.
U.S. authorities have sanctioned a cryptocurrency ‘tumbler’ used by North Korea to launder stolen digital currency, the first such measures to be brought against a virtual currency mixer.
The European Parliament has given Europol greater powers, enabling the Union’s law enforcement agency to deal with new threats that have emerged with the digital age.
In a Europol coordinated operation, Spanish and German police dismantled a money laundering ring that has operated a parallel banking system for criminals, laundering hundreds of millions of drug money, the European Union’s law enforcement agency said in a statement Thursday.
Two Lebanese citizens living in Georgia were extradited to the United States last week to face money laundering charges after being accused of laundering tens of millions of dollars for criminals worldwide, the United States Department of Justice said in a statement.