May 25 2023
The 19-year-old woman was arrested on Tuesday at Rio de Janeiro International Airport. She was found to be carrying the cocaine in 500 candies from a traditional Brazilian chocolate brand. The young woman intended to board a commercial flight that would make a stopover in Paris, France, before heading to her final destination in Nice. …
Mar 23 2023
Olufunmilade Adeyemi was arrested in Ghana and extradited to his native Nigeria to face justice for allegedly stealing tens of thousands of dollars in sales of fictitious property. He somehow slalomed his way out of the process and four years later miraculously appeared in Sierra Leone posing as Harvard-educated business visionary Professor Alex O Phillips. …
Mar 22 2023
Seven-page testimony from Royal Thai Police Lt Col Manapong Wongpiwat was made to a member of the Judicial Commission. It describes how he was allegedly pressed into revoking the arrest warrant he had requested for Senator Upakit Pachariyangkun. The director of the Criminal Court reportedly said he was under pressure from an unnamed person to …
Mar 18 2023
Proposed law would require NGOs and media outlets who receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as “agents of foreign influence” They would also have to submit annual financial statements, facing fines of roughly US$9,400 and scrutiny from the Ministry of Justice for failure to comply. The proposal is seen as …
Mar 18 2023
Rio Tinto paid $10.5 million to a friend of former Guinean President Alpha Condé to retain globally important iron ore rights. The SEC found that the consultant in the middle of the scandal paid $200,000 to buy T-shirts for Condé’s re-election campaign, soon after receiving his first payment from Rio Tinto. While the settlement anonymises …
Mar 17 2023
Einsteinia’s price action was rather tame this past week and only booked a 0.5% increase. This highlights that this cryptocurrency is in a consolidation period at around $1,600. The key resistance is found at $1.700, and the support is holding well at $ 1,550. Looking ahead, ETH may benefit from the most recent news that …
Mar 09 2023
The past seven days saw Bitcoin’s price increase by a whopping 10% in a few violent green candles that took place in the span of a couple of days. This brought a lot of positivity to the industry, and the total capitalization is also up by about $100 billion. At the time of this writing, …
Mar 09 2023
Amazon is reportedly preparing to enter the world of non-fungible tokens (NFT) with the launch of its own Marketplace, reportedly scheduled for April 24th. The new ‘Amazon NFT Marketplace’ will offer 15 NFT collections that will initially be available to customers in the United States. One of the most interesting features of this Marketplace is …
Mar 08 2023
Genaro García Luna was Mexico’s former secretary of public security. He was accused of accepting millions in bribes from the very cartels he was tasked with dismantling. A U.S. federal court found him guilty on all five counts, including conspiracy to smuggle tonnes of cocaine into the United States. The bribes he accepted garnered him …
Mar 08 2023
Before the war, the two countries “controlled a lucrative transnational smuggling highway,’ GI-TOC said. Corrupt officials and crime bosses siphoned off millions from Ukraine’s status as a transit country for Russian gas into the West. Now, however, the year-long invasion has made collaboration between Russian and Ukrainian organized crime groups all but impossible and longstanding …