A Ukrainian oligarch was arrested at an elite French ski resort, Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (DBR) said. French law enforcement detained Konstantin Zhevago in a hotel in the famed alpine ski resort of Courchevel on Tuesday, the agency said in a statement. An DBR spokesperson said French police made the arrest after Ukraine asked…
Bankman-Fried has claimed repeatedly that he does not consider himself to have criminal liability in the collapse of FTX, but his colleagues have already pleaded guilty. Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is scheduled to appear in court on the afternoon of Jan. 3 to enter a plea on two counts of wire fraud and six…
The White House insisted Wednesday the US has not given up the fight to bring former Marine Paul Whelan home from Russian custody as the Biden administration marked the fourth anniversary of his detention on trumped-up spying charges. “Today marks four years of wrongful detention in Russia for American Paul Whelan and, as the President…
Amid criticism for not finding a suspect in the brutal slaying of four University of Idaho students more than six weeks after the murders, the Moscow Police Department said Tuesday they believe someone is withholding information. The department said in an update that detectives believe that person may have a crucial detail “that adds context…
Contrary to his denial of close ties with recently arrested Myanmar regime arms broker Dr. Tun Min Latt, findings released by a covert group tracking regime-linked businesses reveal that Thai Senator Upakit Pachariyangkun is deeply involved with the broker in ways that have profited the Myanmar military. Myanmar national Tun Min Latt runs the Star…
A controversial Russian-born Israeli arms dealer Arcadi Gaydamak has implicated Cyprus in an alleged $600 mln fraud case against him. According to news site Philenews, citing a TV documentary aired recently on Israel’s popular Channel 12, the 70-year-old’s lawyers have reported to Cyprus authorities that a person he trusted deceived him, transferring to a Cypriot…
SYDNEY — Australia’s government approved a U.S. request to extradite a former American pilot allegedly involved in training Chinese military pilots on how to land on aircraft carriers. The department of Australia’s attorney-general said Wednesday that Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus agreed to formally receive Washington’s request to extradite Daniel Edmund Duggan. The department said Duggan is…
The Israeli company OrboGraph, which uses AI to prevent fraud, was acquired for over $100 million. OrboGraph detects and analyzes fraudulent checks, and provides automated healthcare payment processing. The company is focused on detecting and preventing fraud in the US, Israel, and other countries, and uses advanced recognition algorithms and AI to read each document and…
It’s probably not a coincidence that the Twitter account of Piers Morgan, a British media personality, was hacked and then wiped after the leak of over 400 million Twitter user data that is now being sold on a hacking forum, cybersecurity researchers say. Hudson Rock, an Israeli cyber-intelligence company, was one of the first to…
Atlas Elektronik, a subsidiary of German giant ThyssenKrupp, has signed a deal with Vsense Technologies, which will see it invest millions of euros in the Israeli company. This project is part of ThyssenKrupp’s industrial cooperation plan with Israeli industry, which was approved by the Industrial Cooperation Authority (ICA) in July 2021. Vsense is a supplier…