A web of corruption between a retired colonel fraudulently elected governor of a region of Colombia with the help of close collaborators in both legal and illegal organizations is shaking the country.
The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) reported 82 violations against journalists, media workers, and media outlets in 2023, with just over half attributed to the Yemeni government and its agencies.
A New Jersey man returned to the U.S. from Turkey last week to plead guilty to his part in a nationwide off-road tire Ponzi scheme that defrauded millions from his victims, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio reported.
Police in Fiji said Monday they had seized over three tonnes of crystal methamphetamine in a raid at a warehouse on the western side of the Pacific’s country’s main island.
Kyrgyz authorities ordered the detention of 11 independent journalists and conducted searches of their homes on Tuesday. According to attorney Zamir Zhooshev, the journalists are now held in custody for 48 hours, before the court decides to release them or to extend the detention.
The Ukrainian National Police said on Friday that they had arrested a hacker in the southern city of Mykolaiv in connection with a sophisticated scheme to hijack cloud computers to mine cryptocurrencies, a ploy known as “cryptojacking.”
Since investigative journalists revealed 10 months ago that Lithuanian railways had been used to move Russian and Belarusian fertilizers into the European Union despite sanctions, authorities in Vilnius have tightened checks, rejecting requests to let tens of thousands of wagons pass through the country to or from Russia and Belarus.
As part of the ongoing suppression of media freedom in Belarus, a court in Minsk opened the trial of freelance journalist Alyaksandr Zyankou on Friday. He has been charged with participating in an extremist formation for covering anti-government protests in 2020.
The Germany-based international software company SAP will pay over US$220 million to settle corruption accusations by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), who claim it paid bribes to government officials in South Africa and Indonesia in exchange for government contracts.
Another defendant in the US$250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme pleaded guilty Wednesday, bringing the total to 17 who have confessed to stealing millions from a U.S. federal program designed to feed needy children in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.