The US Department of Commerce through the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Friday effectively grounded 100 aircraft, both commercial and privately owned that have flown to Russia in violation of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). The owners and operators of the grounded planes include Roman Abramovich, Aeroflot, Aviastar, Azur Air, Nordwind and Utair. In [...]
A Nicaraguan court Friday convicted former presidential candidate Cristiana Chamorro and her brother, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, for money laundering-related offences. They are the children of Nicaragua’s former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro. On May 19, 2021, the Interior Ministry notified Chamorro of a criminal investigation against her for laundering money through the Violeta Barrios de [...]
The Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland Friday rejected an appeal by an unnamed Arab businessman to stop Japanese prosecutors from acquiring access to his bank accounts. The Japanese authorities are conducting a criminal investigation into violations of the Companies Act and Financial Instruments and Exchange Act by Carlos Ghosn, the former CEO and Chairman of [...]
The government of Tanzania Friday dropped charges relating to economic crimes and terrorism against Freeman Mbowe, according to Tanzania’s opposition party. Freeman Mbowe was arrested last July in a nighttime raid by the local police hours before he was scheduled to hold a press conference to push for constitutional reforms. His party, Democracy and Progress [...]
The US District Court for the Southern District of New York Friday banned disgraced pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli for life from the pharmaceutical industry for using illegal tactics to keep other Daraprim (pyrimethamine) drug manufacturers out of the market. Daraprim is used to treat toxoplasmosis, which threatens the lives of people with weakened immune systems, [...]
Russia imposed heavy fines on Google and Meta Friday for their repeated failure to take down illegal content. A law passed earlier this year obligates social media entities to remove content deemed illegal under Russian law. Meta was fined 2 billion rubles and Google was fined 7.2 billion rubles. This is the first time a Russian court [...]
Harper Collins settled a libel suit Wednesday with the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. The book “Putin’s People,” authored by Catherine Belton, was published in 2021 in paperback format. The book dealt with KGB’s influence in Russia in the context of Putin and his influence on the West. Abramovich filed a libel suit against HarperCollins Publishers [...]
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) of Gambia Thursday delivered its report to President Adama Barrow. The report, while not indicting anyone specifically, recommends prosecutions for anyone who was associated with atrocities committed during Yahya Jammeh’s 22 years in the presidency. The report itself has not yet been released publicly. The report, which details systemic [...]
The Supreme Court of the Netherlands overturned judgments of the The Hague Court of Appeal on Friday. The judgments — dated September 25 of 2018 and February 18 of 2020 — ordered Russia to pay $50 billion as part of an arbitration award to shareholders of Yukos. Yukos was a Russian company engaged in oil [...]
