A Russian court has sentenced Eduard Sharlot, a 26-year-old singer, to five and a half years in prison for actions deemed as protesting Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine. The court in Samara, a city along the Volga River, found Sharlot guilty of “publicly insulting” religious believers and “rehabilitating Naziism,” according to state news agency RIA Novosti. The charges were …
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Court jails ex-IMF chief for tax fraud and corruption
Former International Monetary Fund chief Rodrigo Rato was on Friday, Dec. 20, sentenced to more than four years in prison by a Madrid court for tax crimes, money laundering and corruption. Judges found Rato, who was also a former economy minister in Spain, guilty of “three offences against the treasury, one offence of money laundering and one offence of corruption …
Read More »Russia jails Ukraine resident 16 years for treason
A military court in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, has sentenced an unnamed resident of Ukraine’s Lugansk region to 16 years in prison on charges of “high treason.” The Russian FSB security service alleged the individual had provided information about the Russian armed forces to Ukraine’s security services. The man was also convicted of aiding terrorist activities and illegally handling and transporting explosives. …
Read More »Court jails US-based Nigerian and his accomplice 40 years for drug trafficking
A US court has found a Nigerian US-based man, Oluwole Adegboruwa, 54 and his accomplice, Enrique Isong, 49, guilty of masterminding a multi-million dollar dark web drug trafficking operation, and has sentenced them to a combined 40 years in jail term. This was revealed in a statement on the website of the United States Attorney’s Office, District of Utah. While …
Read More »FCT court jails man for defrauding American of $115,000 in bitcoin scam
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Jabi, Abuja has convicted and sentenced one Praise Humphrey Igbo (a.k.a) Jessica Allen to one year imprisonment for fraud amounting to $115,000. Humphrey who was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a one-count charge, bordering on internet crime, criminal impersonation, was convicted by Justice H.L Abba-Aliyu …
Read More »Kwara court jails varsity student and three others for internet fraud
Justice Suleiman Akanbi of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Monday, December 09, 2024 sentenced a student, Akanbi Akorede Afeez, to two years imprisonment for internet fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in a statement on Tuesday, December 10, disclosed that Afeez was arraigned on a lone-count charge bordering on internet fraud. …
Read More »Philippine Court jails 17 militants for life for resort kidnappings carried out 24 years ago
Seventeen members of an Islamic State-linked militant group have been sentenced to life imprisonment for their roles in the kidnapping of foreign and Filipino nationals in Malaysia nearly 25 years ago, the Philippine Department of Justice announced on Monday, October 21. In April 2000, Islamist extremist group Abu Sayyaf abducted 21 people at gunpoint from a holiday resort on …
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