Iran on Sunday put to death four people accused of working with Israel’s intelligence service, the judiciary said. “This morning, the sentences of four main members of the gang of mobsters related to the Zionist intelligence service were executed,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported. Iran carried out the sentences four days after the Islamic…
Venezuela’s oil minister and top representatives of state-run company PDVSA on Friday signed contracts with U.S. oil firm Chevron Corp (CVX.N) intended to help revive the nation’s oil output and expand operations. The United States last week granted Chevron a six-month license authorizing it to take a broader role in existing projects in U.S.-sanctioned Venezuela,…
The Democratic Republic of Congo will publish on Thursday a dispute settlement deal with Dan Gertler, an Israeli businessman under U.S. sanctions, the Congo finance ministry said. A failure to publish the deal could hamper the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) third review of its financial and governance reform program for Congo, which, if approved later…
A Russian businessman arrested in London is identified by Russian state media as Mikhail Fridman, who also holds Israeli citizenship. A statement from the UK’s National Crime Agency — which didn’t name Fridman — says he is suspected of money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the Home Office and conspiracy to commit perjury. Two other people…
Math doesn’t seem to be the MIT graduate’s strength. Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried — an alum of the vaunted university — gave a bizarre explanation for an $8 billion budget shortfall that helped force the doomed cryptocurrency platform into bankruptcy last month — claiming he had simply “misaccounted” the cash. Bankman-Fried scrambled to explain…
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday asked a judge to dismiss bank fraud and other charges against Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies whose 2018 arrest strained relations between the U.S. and China. Meng struck a deal with the prosecutors last year for the charges against her to be dismissed on Dec. 1,…
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has dismissed charges of criminal fraud and wage theft against 48 California Highway Patrol officers who were charged with an overtime fraud scheme at East Station LA, the state attorney general’s office announced Thursday. The judge’s actions end the vast majority of the 54 California Atty cases. General…
The Secret Service has located hundreds of pages of records tied to the investigation of a gun belonging to Hunter Biden – despite having denied they existed, a government watchdog group said Thursday. Judicial Watch is investigating whether the Secret Service intervened on behalf of President Biden’s son after the incident, and it has sued…
Sam Bankman-Fried claimed he didn’t know how a $16.4 million Bahamas mansion got listed under his parents’ names, insisting that it was meant to house staffers at his now-defunct FTX cryptocurrency exchange. “I don’t know the details of the house for my parents,” Bankman-Fried told the New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin via Zoom at…
The former head of trust and safety at Twitter admitted that the company made a mistake when censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story. Yoel Roth, who resigned earlier in November following Musk’s $44 billion takeover, said the authenticity of the New York Post’s laptop story was difficult for the social media company to verify, and…