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Mozambique’s former finance minister, Manuel Chang, was sentenced to serve eight-and-a-half years in prison this Friday for his role in the “tuna bond” scandal by a Brooklyn court. In 2005, Mozambique’s President Armando Guebuza named Manuel Chang as minister of finance with a mission of leading the fight against poverty. Ironically, Chang — along with [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Friday called on the Chinese government to immediately release Liu Hanbin, a blogger who has been detained for one month following his publication of information regarding a protest by farmers against forced land seizures. RSF’s Asia-Pacific bureau director Cédric Alviani stated: Chinese blogger Liu Hanbin was only serving the public [...]

A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced Gene Spector, a Russian-born US citizen, to 15 years in a high-security penal colony on espionage charges. The ruling adds 13 years to an existing three-and-a-half-year sentence he was already serving for bribery. According to local media sources, the espionage trial was conducted behind closed doors, and specific details [...]

Malaysia’s state investment fund, 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), on Monday filed  a lawsuit against corporate services provider Amicorp Group and its chief executive officer (CEO), Toine Knipping, for allegedly facilitating the laundering of over $7 billion in misappropriated funds, local media reported. In its claim, 1MDB accused Amicorp Group of “fraudulently aiding and abetting [...]

The Provincial Court of Madrid on Friday sentenced Spanish politician and former director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Rodrigo Rato to four years, nine months and one day in prison for corruption and money laundering crimes. The verdict concludes a criminal investigation that began in 2015, prompted by an alert from the Anti-Fraud Office [...]

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in or affecting Perú. All of them are from CIED (Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho), a student research center in UNSAAC’s faculty of law dedicated to spreading [...]

Israeli prosecutors Thursday indicted one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aides, Eli Feldstein, for leaking classified information on Hamas and most likely harming national security, the latest development in a web of legal scandals that has entangled Netanyahu. Feldstein now faces a sentence of up to life in prison for leaking information which allegedly jeopardizes [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Alice Edwards on Thursday called on Ecuador to investigate and prosecute the alleged torture of its former vice president Jorge Glas. The Special Rapporteur raised alarm over the conditions of Glas, who has shown signs of physical and psychological torture. According to medical reports provided, Glas has suffered “dislocated thumbs, [...]

Malaysia’s High Court dismissed on Monday the Malaysian Bar’s bid to overturn the decision to reduce former prime minister Najib Razak’s prison sentence and fine for corruption, local media reported. Razak had been convicted in relation to a scandal surrounding Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). Justice Ahmad Kamal, the judge who [...]

Iran executed dual Iranian-German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd on Monday. German Foreign Minister Annalaena Barbock stated: “I condemn the murder of Jamshid Sharmahd by the Iranian regime in the strongest possible terms. Jamshid Sharmahd was abducted to Iran from Dubai, held for years without a fair trial, and has now been killed.” Sharmahd was first arrested [...]