Global police agency Interpol confirmed on Wednesday it had issued a red notice for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the country’s former president, asking global law enforcement authorities to locate and provisionally arrest her. Dos Santos, who has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, has faced corruption accusations for years, including allegations by Angola in 2020…
The payments network Zelle is owned by seven United States based banks, and has been under the careful watch of lawmakers. A potential rule may shift the responsibility to the banks when the banks’ customers are subject to fraud. Presently, in most cases the customer is presently responsible for any income lost if the transaction…
London’s High Court has ordered six cryptocurrency exchanges, which includes Binance, Coinbase, CoinDesk sister company Luno and Kraken, to disclose client information to help trace $10.7 million that was stolen from a U.K.-based exchange in 2020, according to a court judgement. The exchange, which remains anonymous as it continues to track stolen funds, managed to…
A high-ranking Russian colonel who played a role in President Vladimir Putin’s partial mobilization efforts “executed” himself with five gunshots to the chest in his commander’s office after allegedly being set up to take the fall for some of the problems plaguing the invasion of Ukraine, according to his widow. Col. Vadim Boiko, 44, deputy…
Clapping back. Kylie Jenner slammed a TikTok user who accused her of posting new photos of her son to distract from the Balenciaga ad scandal. “Kris Jenner telling her kids to release the good photos after the Balenciaga scandal,” the text over the Monday, November 28, viral TikTok read. The Kardashians star, 25, quickly clapped…
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried ignored pleas from company attorneys and advisers urging him to file for bankruptcy “for days” before the cryptocurrency platform imploded, according to a report Tuesday. FTX general counsel Ryne Miller was one of several people who begged Bankman-Fried and other executives to relinquish their control of the company, the New…
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced earlier today that a federal jury found NEIL COLE, the former Chief Executive Officer of Iconix Brand Group, Inc. (“Iconix”), guilty of participating in a scheme to fraudulently inflate Iconix’s revenue and earnings per share, making false filings with the U.S.…
Major Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection along with eight affiliates, it has said, the latest crypto casualty to follow the spectacular collapse of the FTX exchange earlier this month. The filing in a New Jersey court on Monday comes as crypto prices plummet, with Bitcoin down more than 70 percent…
WASHINGTON—The U.S. said it would allow Chevron Corp. CVX -0.29%decrease; red down pointing triangle to resume pumping oil from its Venezuelan oil fields after President Nicolás Maduro’s government and an opposition coalition agreed to implement an estimated $3 billion humanitarian relief program and continue dialogue in Mexico City on efforts to hold free and fair…
Belarus’s long-standing foreign minister has died suddenly, the state news agency Belta reported on Saturday, just days before he was due in Poland to meet key Western officials. ‘Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei has passed away suddenly,’ Belta reported today without giving further detail. Makei, 64, had held his post since 2012 and wasn’t known to…