Israeli police last week arrested six alleged investment scammers as part of a proceeding to extradite them to the United States. Ori Maymon 36, Nissim Alfasi, 37, Afik Tori, 30, Oron Montgomery, 41, Dave Barzilay, 44 and Gilad Mazugi, 39, were arrested on Tuesday and are being held in custody as their lawyers battle the…
Seven people were caught trying to smuggle 45 liters of a GBL rape drug into Israel on Saturday, according to the Israel Police Spokesperson’s Unit. The Jaffa police station received a tip that the drug was on the way into the country, causing the police to stop the smuggling group upon their arrival in the…
Facebook’s parent company Meta is suing to ban Israeli surveillance company Voyager Labs from using Facebook and Instagram, alleging that the firm scraped the data of 600,000 users without their knowledge via tens of thousands of fake accounts, according to a report in The Guardian. The lawsuit states that Facebook deleted 38,000 fake profiles set…
Israeli company Cognyte, which is traded on the Nasdaq, won a tender by a Myanmar state-owned company to provide an advanced cyber-intelligence system to be installed at the heart of the country’s telecommunications network – in order to monitor and eavesdrop on users, documents obtained by the NGO Justice For Myanmar reveal. Although the U.S.…
Britain has imposed sanctions on the Iranian prosecutor general after the country’s execution of the British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari, while Iran has summoned the UK ambassador. Akbar was executed on Saturday after Iranian authorities claimed he was an MI6 spy, charges his family and the Foreign Office deny. Britain had already summoned the most…
A female NYPD officer alleges that her female superior officer yanked her ponytail inside of their Queens precinct, causing injury, in a bid to warn her, in the latest scandal to rock New York’s finest. Officer Christine Meisner says that Sgt. Nakia Middleton-House told her: ‘You put your hair in a bun or a perp…
Terese White, 41, was meant to fly to Boston. Instead, she landed in police custody. Last October, White was a Mesa Airlines flight attendant traveling from Dallas to San Diego. Between flights, she exited the SoCal airport and returned later that day to go from San Diego to Boston. As is the habit of flight…
A 35-year-old man who allegedly bilked Orthodox Jewish investors in Los Angeles and New Jersey out of $47 million and then fled to Israel has been charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with using the proceeds to fund a lavish lifestyle. The SEC alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday, Jan. 12, in U.S.…
Authorities have dismantled a crypto fraud operation operating out of Bulgaria, Cyprus and Serbia which defrauded victims of “at least tens of millions of euros,” Eurojust, the European Union’s cross-border agency for fighting organized crime, have said. The bust saw four call centers and 18 other places searched, with 14 people arrested in Serbia and…
A senior member of a prominent crime organization was shot dead on Friday in Ramle, a city in central Israel with significant Jewish and Arab populations. Early on Friday, 50-year-old Ali Jarushi was rushed to a local hospital in critical condition after being shot multiple times near a mosque. Jarushi is a central figure in…