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A Russian court on Friday sentenced opposition leader and Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to an additional 19 years in a maximum-security prison, finding him guilty on extremism charges in what critics have lambasted as a “sham trial.”
Navalny, who is already serving a nine-year prison term in a maximum-security facility in Melekhovo, 250 kilometers east of Moscow, now faces decades behind bars.
Prosecutors had requested a 20-year sentence for
Britons have been urged to make a note of a vital scam prevention phone number that could help them avoid being taken in by fraudsters pretending to be from their bank.
If a person gets a suspicious call purportedly from a bank, they can hang up and then call the 159 phone service, which will securely connect them to their bank to verify the situation.
Stop Scams UK created the phone line. Simon Miller, director of Policy and Communications at
The attorney general was not as advertised.
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BRUSSELS — The EU’s anti-fraud watchdog found irregularities worth €1.77 billion in 2022 as the number of cases it investigated increased, it said in a report published Thursday.
OLAF, which monitors the abuse of EU funds, said there were 12,455 cases reported by authorities last year, a 7 percent increase from 2021.
The majority of these, 11,316 ― an all-time high — were not criminal but concerned irregularities such as poor management, sloppy record-keeping or insufficient financial controls. It represented
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It’s not every day that a pair of sunglasses causes your downfall. But that’s what happened to Bjørnar Moxnes, a Norwegian left-wing party leader who was caught on camera stealing a pair of luxury sunglasses from Oslo airport.
“A lot of people have asked me how I could do something so stupid. I’ve asked myself that many times in recent weeks. I don’t have an adequate explanation,” Moxnes wrote
Barbie fans have turned cinemas across the country pink as they dressed up in their best colourful gear to catch the new Margot Robbie flick.
The Greta Gerwig directed feminist romp, expected to make $100 million at the box office, opens in the UK and US today with thousands of fans queuing up to be the first to see it, and rave reviews from critics.
But the funniest film of the summer is a far cry from the doll’s origins,
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with CARLO BOFFA, BEN MUNSTER, BJARKE SMITH-MEYER, PAOLA TAMMA and IZABELLA KAMINSKA
— A Bank of Italy economist managed to swindle his employer and an EU committee out of hundreds of thousands of euros.
— Confidence in the Bank of England hits an all-time low — and Mark Carney says Brexit is to blame.
— ECB
Da die Lebenshaltungskostenkrise weiter in die Höhe schnellt, werden Kunden vor Betrügern gewarnt, die versuchen, ihr hart verdientes Geld zu stehlen.
Identitätsbetrug tritt auf, wenn ein Betrüger eine Person kontaktiert, die vorgibt, von einer vertrauenswürdigen Organisation wie der Bank oder der Polizei zu sein.
Die Betrüger versuchen, Menschen davon zu überzeugen, ihnen große Geldbeträge zu schicken, nachdem sie ihr Vertrauen gewonnen haben.
Betrüger rufen potenzielle Opfer kalt an und behaupten, ihr Konto sei kompromittiert und sie müssten ihr Geld dringend
Das Serious Fraud Office (SFO) hat ein Verfahren gegen drei ehemalige G4S-Führungskräfte eingestellt, das es beschuldigt hatte, das Justizministerium wegen eines Vertrags zur Markierung von Gefangenen betrogen zu haben.
Late in the spring of 2020, Jan Marsalek, an Austrian bank executive, was suspended from his job. He was a widely admired figure in the European business community—charismatic, trilingual, and well travelled. Even at his busiest, as the chief operating officer of Wirecard, Germany’s fastest-growing financial-technology company, he would assure subordinates who sought a minute of his time that he had one, just for them. “For you, always,” he used to say. But he would say that to almost everyone.
