Channel migrants are being recruited from asylum hotels and children’s homes by organised crime gangs, police chiefs have warned. The migrants were discovered as part of a major police operation to smash the organised crime groups behind Britain’s biggest counterfeit crime network run out of a district in central Manchester. The 33 organised crime groups…
Credit Suisse provided an emergency $140mn loan to Greensill Capital based partly on invoices to companies who deny ever doing the business stated on the documents. The Swiss bank provided the loan in October 2020, less than five months before the collapse of Greensill, a supply chain finance firm that counted former UK prime minister…
Police in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia have arrested 63 people for laundering 12 billion yuan (US$1.7 billion) of cryptocurrency, in the latest case highlighting the opaque nature of China’s crypto market, which ranks No 4 worldwide despite an official ban on trading by the central government. Starting in May 2021, the crypto…
The Greek MEP Eva Kaili is one of the four people who have been placed under arrest by a Brussels federal prosecutor on Sunday in the Qatar corruption scandal. Kaili was charged with money laundering, corruption and participating in a criminal organization. In an announcement that does not mention specific names, the Brussels federal prosecutor’s…
Details of fraud allegations faced by the cryptocurrency trader accused of killing his mother in her own home have been revealed. Andre Zachary Rebelo, 26, remains behind bars three weeks after he was charged with the murder of his mother, Colleen Rebelo, 58, at her home in the affluent Perth suburb of Bicton in May…
When she was living her life as an 18-year-old model in Tel Aviv, a friend pushed Eden Harel to audition for MTV. That audition turned out to be a resounding success and she relocated to London soon after, beginning her journey as a host on the popular channel. “MTV had a different power back then…
A group of Jewish boys was chased by attackers firing a taser gun and shouting “Run Jews! Get out of here!” in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, the local chapter of Shmira, a Jewish public safety group, reported on Sunday. The incident took place on Avenue J and East 16 Street, right near the Flatbush…