A young man who laundered $3.5 million for a crime syndicate dubbed the Crypto Kids has been sentenced to 70 months by a federal judge in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Investigators said the group formed through online gaming platforms and squandered its loot on ...
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Ali Lalji got involved in a cocaine smuggling conspiracy during the time he worked at Vice Media where he made friends with Yaroslav Pastukhov. They used the company’s headquarters in Toronto, Canada, to recruit couriers for the operation. But the plot may now be less remembered for its notoriety than ...
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Do you have a sweetheart who sends you loving emails but you have never met in person? Does he say you make him feel like he's known you forever? But you can't arrange a date because he's in the military overseas. Did you send him money when his bank account ...
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Ransomware operations are not only a technological problem. They have evolved into systematized extortion campaigns that weaponize stolen data. Although two recent cases in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland involved standard tactics from the ransomware playbook they also highlight the use of extortion strategies indicative ...
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The police in Britain arrested a member of the Royal Family and a former British ambassador to the United States on suspicion of misconduct in public office following the release of the Epstein files by the U.S. Department of Justice. The records disclose a global web of complicity from the ...
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Saudi dissident, Ghanem Al-Masarir, has been awarded £3m in damages by Britain's High Court of Justice in a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia for hacking his cellphones with Pegasus spyware and directing his assault on a London street. The former satirist whose YouTube channels featured criticism of the Saudi government now ...
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Proactive policing includes the practice of heightening police presence to reduce crime. But a recent ruling from the Alberta Court of King's Bench on a disclosure motion may indicate that other important outcomes are unclear. Is it good law enforcement policy to get guns off the streets if police initiatives ...
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The crackdown on corporate fraud has continued with the recent indictment unsealed in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, charging Anthony Tepedino, C.E.O. of Allstate Sales Group, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The indictment is another case in the global shift from ...
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A former Special Agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has been indicted for conspiracy to commit money laundering. Paul Campo, who rose to become a senior figure in the agency's financial operations office, is charged with agreeing to launder millions in drug proceeds for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel ...
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Is it a violation of the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure when a citizen hands over evidence of a crime to the police and the police examine it without getting a search warrant? That question has been considered by two provincial courts of appeal in Canada ...
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