A US federal court in Missouri sentenced a man from Belarus on Tuesday to five years in prison on charges of conspiracy to file fraudulent income tax returns, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Latvia-based OCCRP partner Re:Baltica has published a series of investigations on right-wing propaganda and misinformation about Latvian media which reporters found originated from Russia.
Adam Szubin, acting US Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, says that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been amassing secret wealth and that the United States considers him to be corrupt, reported Reuters.
Either Romanian prisons are unusually rich in literary talent or somebody is scamming the system, the AP reports.
About 300 employees of the Azerbaijan International Mineral Resources Operating Company Ltd. (AIMROC) protested outside Parliament in Baku Monday saying they have not been paid for 21 months.
Ukraine’s Constitutional Court approved amendments stripping lawmakers’ power to appoint judges, making judges liable for prosecution and introducing stricter criteria on who can become a judge, reported Reuters.
Two Lithuanian men have been sentenced to 3.5 years in jail each by the Kings Lynn Crown Court for cheating two fellow countrymen who were starved and forced to work for low wages, according to a news release.
The Latvian Financial and Capital Market Commission (FKTK) said on Friday that it would set “operational restrictions” on Trasta Komercbanka barring the bank from carrying out debit transactions in any currency, including through online banking, ATMs, and by cash to customers for any amount in excess of € 100,000 (US$ 108,000).
Police in the Netherlands have cracked down on a group they suspect has laundered proceeds, in the form of the virtual currency Bitcoin, from the online sale of illegal goods.