Ex-Wirecard CEO Markus Braun goes on trial in Munich this week for his role in the collapse of the once celebrated payments firm, brought down by the biggest accounting fraud scandal in German corporate history. Austrian-born Braun and two other former Wirecard executives will appear in the dock from Thursday on charges of commercial gang…
DetailsAmber Heard is seeking a new defamation trial against her ex-husband Johnny Depp, claiming that the Virginia court battle she lost was held in the wrong state. Earlier this year, Mr Depp won his defamation case against Ms Heard, with a jury awarding him $15 million in damages. The jury also awarded the ‘Aquaman’ star…
DetailsA $1m reward has been announced to help solve a 40-year mystery – the bombing of Sydney’s Israeli consulate and the Hakoah Club, which shook the Jewish community. The increased reward was announced on Monday, the first day of a coronial inquiry into Australia’s first terrorism cold case. A bomb exploded in front of the…
DetailsA father and son were hit by BB gun pellets on Staten Island Sunday afternoon outside a kosher supermarket, according to authorities. Police say the incident happened around 4:20 p.m. at 2212 Victory Boulevard. The father, 37, and his seven-year-old son, both were wearing yarmulkes at the time of the attack, police say. The BB…
DetailsA Dearborn man has been charged with two counts of ethnic intimidation in what officials said was an antisemitic attack at a historic synagogue and preschool for Jewish students in Bloomfield Township. Hassan Yehia Chokr, 35, was arrested by police after antisemitic and racist threats were made Friday against children, adults and security personnel outside…
DetailsBlackmail and Extortion are serious crimes that carries a penalty of up to 14 years’ imprisonment. WHAT IS EXTORTION? Extortion is sometimes confused with blackmail. Although there are a lot of similarities between the two crimes, and the sentencing guidelines are the same for both offences, extortion and blackmail describe two different acts. BLACKMAIL The offence…
DetailsAuthorities investigating the killings of four University of Idaho students who were found stabbed to death last month say they have received thousands of tips from the public. In a Saturday update, the Moscow Police Department said it has received more than 2,640 emails to a tip web address, more than 2,770 phone tips and…
DetailsA Chinese security camera company has been advertising ethnicity recognition features to British and other European customers, even while it faces a ban on UK operations over allegations of involvement in ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. In a brochure published on its website, Hikvision advertised a range of features that it said it could provide in…
DetailsChina has allegedly set up over 100 quasi-police stations in countries across the world to spy on, harass and even repatriate Chinese nationals living abroad, according to CNN, citing the Madrid-based NGO Safeguard Defenders. The organization had first revealed the existence of 54 stations back in September, and has now disclosed the existence of 48 furthers.…
DetailsAn Arizona polygamist cult leader has been accused of marrying 20 women, most of whom are under the age of 15, as well as his daughter. Samuel Rappylee Bateman, 46, has been accused of marrying up to 20 women and girls as young as 9-years-old, according to an FBI affidavit filed Friday in Washington. The…
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