Commodities trading firm Trafigura on Monday said it has entered into a $3 billion four-year loan to supply gas to German gas trader Sefe, formerly known as Gazprom Germania, and help Europe’s largest economy secure volumes long-term. “We are proud to be contributing to Europe’s energy security by supplying this significant volume of gas to…
DetailsA blogger and exiled critic of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov was shot to death last week, according to a leading Chechen opposition group. Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a vocal critic of Kadyrov who had been living in asylum in Sweden, stopped posting to social media last week, sparking concerns for his well-being. “Unfortunately the rumors about his…
DetailsElon Musk declared that he is not ‘suicidal’ during another bizarre interview discussing potential retaliation for his ‘Twitter Files’ leaks. The Twitter CEO was quizzed on his personal safety during another Twitter Spaces appearance just 24 hours after released internal documents about the platform’s decision to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story. Tech guru Kim…
DetailsInternal documents released by Attorney General Letitia James’ office Monday night confirmed she knew about the sexual harassment allegations lobbed against a longtime top aide for more than a month before Election Day, but chose to keep it under lock-and-key before voters went to the polls. James and her office first learned that Chief of…
DetailsThe crypto exchange owned by the Winklevoss twins is trying to recoup $900 million from a cash-strapped crypto broker that has been gutted in the wake of the FTX collapse, according to a report. New York-based Gemini — which Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss started after settling their famous beef with ex-Harvard classmate Mark Zuckerberg over…
DetailsBoris Becker is set to be deported to Germany next week having served less than eight months of his two-and-a-half year sentence. The three-time Wimbledon winner, 54, was jailed in April for hiding £2.5million of assets in a bankruptcy fraud case. He is being held in HMP Huntercombe in Oxfordshire where foreign nationals are detained…
DetailsFormer Wirecard executives go on trial on Thursday, two years after the collapse of the payments company that produced Germany’s biggest post-war fraud scandal and sent shockwaves through the country’s political and financial establishment. Austrian former chief executive Markus Braun and two other high-ranking managers of the defunct blue-chip company are facing a number of…
DetailsEvan Luthra says he lost more than $2 million when the FTX cryptocurrency exchange imploded last month. And he feels doubly injured seeing disgraced founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried making the media rounds, stating that he had no idea about the “huge management failures” and “accounting f–k-ups” that led to the collapse. That Bankman-Fried has…
DetailsThe jury in the trial of socialist James Stunt, who is accused of money laundering, has retired to consider its verdicts. The 40-year-old ex-husband of heiress Petra Ecclestone is one of eight defendants on trial in relation to an alleged criminal network, in which jurors have heard £266 million ($323.5 million) deposited in the bank…
DetailsChief Twit Elon Musk has fired Twitter’s general counsel James A. Baker, citing his alleged involvement in the suppressing the release of internal documents regarding Twitter’s censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. ‘In light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter…
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