Former FBI special agent Clint Watts, testifying at the Senate Intelligence Committee’s hearing on Russian meddling in last year’s elections, had an arresting message for his interlocutors: “Follow the trail of dead Russians”, he said.
Two Estonian citizens were arrested in Tallinn, Estonia, on an 18-count indictment for their alleged involvement in a $575 million cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering conspiracy, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday. Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, both 37, allegedly defrauded hundreds of thousands of victims through a multi-faceted scheme, wherein they induced them…
DetailsKim Jong-nam wrote to Kim Jong-un in 2012 asking his half-brother and the recently anointed dictator of North Korea to spare his life and that of his family, the head of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service revealed on Wednesday.
The Justice Department in the US is probing Credit Suisse bank to assess whether bank employees have helped clients in Israel to evade US taxes.
BERLIN -The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is involved in an investigation of a recent cyberattack on German automotive supplier Continental, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. The FBI was brought on board by German security authorities, the person said, confirming an earlier Handelsblatt report. Continental declined to comment, and…
DetailsUber CEO Travis Kalanick on Sunday said the company will open an “urgent investigation” after a former engineer wrote a lengthy blog post describing systemic sexual harassment at the San Francisco ride-hailing service, which she called “an organization in complete, unrelenting chaos.”
Cryptocurrency fraud in the U.K. rose by 32% to 226 million pound ($273 million) in one year, according to data from the U.K. police unit Action Fraud, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The U.K. is in a recession and the cost of living has increased, making some people vulnerable to fraudsters. “Whenever times are…
DetailsUkrainian police raided an oligarch, tax authorities and officials on Wednesday, amid a harmful corruption scandal during the bloody war with Russia. David Arakhamia, the leader of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s party, announced on Telegram that officers had targetted billionaire Igor Kolomoiski, ex-Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and the tax authorities, while the Customs Directorate was sacked. Senior…
DetailsWhere is my baby?Where is your baby?Where is my friends’ baby? Are you related or familiar with that question? Where you told story’s that never you happened? Have thy given you hope that never came true? Have thy made you say things, what you would never say? Made promises? Made you sighing papers what you…
DetailsUnited Airlines chief executive officer Jeff Smisek stepped down “effective immediately” on Tuesday with the airline citing an ongoing federal corruption investigation into the company.
