The U.S. is offering up to US$10 million for information on Hezbollah’s financial networks in the West African country of Guinea associated with the activities of two local tycoons of Lebanese origin who were sanctioned by the Treasury in March last year. Hezbollah is an Iran-backed Shia militant group and political party in Lebanon, which…
Crypto lender Nexo has found itself the subject of a large-scale investigation in Bulgaria, as prosecutors look into possible money laundering, tax offenses, computer fraud, and other crimes. Over 300 people are involved in the operation in the country’s capital city of Sofia, according to a statement by the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office. “Active investigation actions…
TikTok is being flooded with anti-Israeli videos, mainly produced by pro-Palestinian groups — and Jewish leaders say they’re poisoning the minds of the millions of young adults who get their news from the Chinese-owned platform. “TikTok is wildly popular, short and to the point, and a brilliant marketing tool,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon…
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has offered a sweetheart plea deal to a suspect charged in the brutal anti-Semitic beating of a Jewish man in Midtown, prosecutors confirmed. Waseem Awawdeh — who defiantly said “I would do it again” after his arrest in the cowardly assault on Joseph Borgen near a pro-Israel rally in…
A leading Jewish businessman listed as running Pardes House and Beis Yaacov Primary Schools Foundation alongside a rabbi who is at the centre of a sexual-assault investigation claims that the accused man is no longer involved with the organisation. Billionaire investor Benzion Freshwater attempted to distance the group from Rabbi Chaim Halpern, who is under…
The National Union of Students has failed to protect Jewish members and activists from hostile attacks within the organisation, according to an investigation that found “numerous instances” of antisemitism in the union over the last decade. The independent investigation found multiple examples of Jewish students having been subjected to antisemitic bullying and ostracisation within the…
Former Barclays and JP Morgan exec Jes Staley is accused of being an operative in late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s sex ring, after thousands of emails between the two reveal a ‘profound friendship,’ a lawsuit claims. The filing was made in an an amended complaint Tuesday by the US Virgin Islands, which had previously sued…
Bill Papas’ Greek business partner says he knew nothing of the Forum Group founder’s alleged fraud as he attempts to prevent Westpac from forcing him to refund $10m paid for the manufacture of food digestion machines, reports the Australian Businessman Anastasios Giamouridis, in documents filed in the Federal Court, said he “did not know of,…
Police are reportedly probing three members of the fringe anti-Zionist, ultra-Orthodox sect Neturei Karta who entered the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank earlier this week and met with Palestinians from local terror groups. The men, residents of Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh, were filmed meeting with prominent Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group officials…
A man who has operated at least four Brooklyn education companies billed the government for more than $1 million in child care services that he never provided, cashing in on programs meant to aid low-income families, according to a federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday. The executive, Martin Handler, 48, was arrested Wednesday and charged with…