ATHENS — Greek authorities have asked Panama for information regarding possible money transfers from Qatar to accounts belonging to MEP Eva Kaili, who’s currently detained in Brussels pending trial over corruption allegations. The chairman of Greece’s anti-money laundering authority, Charalampos Vourliotis, sent an urgent request to authorities in Panama — a well-known tax haven with…
DetailsFrench investigators have raided Google’s Paris headquarters, saying the company is now under investigation for aggravated financial fraud and organised money laundering.
HONG KONG, — Tim Leissner, the Goldman Sachs Group Inc executive who helped build the investment bank’s Malaysia business, left the firm earlier this month.
Goldman Sachs’ cozy relationship with the Malaysian government is coming back to haunt the firm and one of its regional chairmen.
A 21-year-old woman has branded an Orthodox rabbi “dangerous and sick”, claiming he used his position to groom and assault her. The woman says Rabbi Chaim Halpern, spent time and effort winning her and her family’s trust before allegedly assaulting her when she went to him for spiritual guidance. The head of the ultra orthodox…
DetailsTwo people have been arrested after a seven-year-old girl was found dead, police say. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said a 50-year-old man and a 49-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of neglect after the girl was found dead on Friday, January 27. Both suspects were arrested a day later and taken into custody. The London…
DetailsGerman prosecutors are investigating Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives, a spokesman for the Munich prosecutor’s office said on Friday, following a complaint alleging the company broke national laws against hate speech and sedition by failing to remove racist postings.
German authorities said Saturday they had found a “considerable portion” of items stolen in a spectacular 2019 robbery of priceless 18th-century jewels from a state museum. The authorities retrieved a total of 31 items in the night of Friday to Saturday in the capital Berlin, the police and prosecutors said. The discovery comes in the…
DetailsThe German submarine police examination, also known as “Case 3000,” was reported on Wednesday to be reclassified by the police as a criminal investigation.
BERLIN – A German government quality control agency and a private certification agency that works with it both violated EU sanctions and the federal agency’s policy by providing certificates to Iranian banks, constructions companies and energy firms, a joint investigation by TOT and the Federal Republic’s largest daily, Bild, reveals.
