UK Identity Fraud Soars to Epidemic Levels
Almost 500 identities are being stolen in the UK each day, a rate that has reached epidemic levels, the fraud prevention service Cifas said Wednesday.
Almost 500 identities are being stolen in the UK each day, a rate that has reached epidemic levels, the fraud prevention service Cifas said Wednesday.
An armed group, allegedly led by a "former mafia boss," is preventing migrant boats from leaving Libya for Italy, media reported Monday.
The US Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that three men pleaded guilty to illegally trafficking more than 60 alligator snapping turtles from Texas, where the species is threatened with statewide extinction.
Researchers from several American universities are developing a software that would identify links between online sex trafficking ads and the digital currency bitcoin, the website Bitcoin.com reported on Sunday.
A federal jury on Friday convicted the former CEO of medical device firm, ArthroCare Corporation, for orchestrating a securities fraud scheme that resulted in shareholder losses of over US$ 750 million, the US Department of Justice said.
A former state lottery worker in Iowa faces up to 25 years in prison for masterminding a multi-state lottery rigging scheme, the Associated Press reported Sunday.
Brazilian authorities expanded Friday their mammoth corruption investigation, Operation Car Wash, to include at least five Greek shipping companies, a US asphalt firm and a Brazilian ex-congressman.
A young man was charged on Friday with smuggling drugs from Mexico to the United States using a drone, authorities announced Friday.
Swedish authorities indicted on Friday a sales manager at Sweden’s Bombardier Transportation with bribery that helped the company win a US$ 350 million tender in Azerbaijan although it was the highest bidder.
Pakistan’s ousted prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, and his two sons failed on Friday to appear before the country’s top criminal investigation body which is probing his offshore properties he lost his job over.