United States: Russian Gets 2 Years Behind Bars for Online Fraud
A court in the United States (US) has sentenced a Russian national living in Tewksbury, Mass. to two years’ imprisonment for cyber fraud.
A court in the United States (US) has sentenced a Russian national living in Tewksbury, Mass. to two years’ imprisonment for cyber fraud.
The Basmanny District Court in Moscow has approved a warrant by investigators for the arrest of a Russian lawmaker in absentia on charges of embezzlement.
The British newspaper The Guardian has published an investigation revealing that persecuted Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar (Burma) are being used as slaves by crime gangs controlling part of Thailand’s export-focused sea-food industry.
Eleven people have been sentenced for their involvement in a prostitution ring which trafficked at least 250 women from Hungary into the United Kingdom (UK).
A British court has sentenced Ashley Mote, a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP), to five years’ imprisonment for theft, fraud, false accounting, obtaining money transfers by deception and obtaining criminal property.
Albanian police say they have busted a gang of hired assassins which was being run from the prison cell of a convicted murderer.
The families of 18 victims of the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 that killed 298 people are suing Igor Girkin, an East Ukraine separatist leader and former Russian secret service employee, for US$ 900 million in a Chicago courtroom.
Kyrgyz parliamentary deputy Khadzhimurat Korkmazov has allegedly been caught red-handed accepting a US$ 100,000 bribe, according to the Kyrgyz National Security Committee.
A Siberian court has ruled that a politically-connected architecture firm illegally landed two contracts worth more than US$1 million to design facilities for an international sports competition in the coldest city on earth.
A fatal shootout in the far western Ukraine town of Mukacheve has sparked a debate over whether the conflict erupted over cigarette smuggling and corruption or is a political battle between the Ukrainian government and the far-right Right Sector group.