Canadian Crypto King Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Violations
The founder of crypto giant Binance has pleaded guilty to money laundering violations following an investigation spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Changpeng Zhao, a Canadian national, agreed to pay a fine of $50 million and to ...
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Canadian Judge Violated Fair Trial Rights
A fair trial is not a judicial inquest. In the Canadian adversarial system trial judges do not conduct inquiries on behalf of society at large. Although trial judges may assert trial management authority they must not descend into the arena and enter the fray. The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has ...
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Russian-Canadians Charged in Smuggling Scheme to Aid Moscow’s War on Ukraine
A criminal complaint was unsealed yesterday in Brooklyn, New York, charging three people with conspiracy to commit wire fraud stemming from a global procurement scheme on behalf of sanctioned Russian entities including companies affiliated with the Russian military. Some of the technology was found in seized Russian weapons platforms and ...
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Search of Journalists’ Devices at Polish Border Violated Privacy Rights
The detention of two journalists by Polish military officers and the searches of their cellphones and cameras for information documenting events near Poland's border with Belarus has reached the European Court of Human Rights. The case presents an opportunity to consider again the highly intrusive nature of digital searches and ...
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Papi and the Police
The constitutional prohibition of arbitrary detention in Canada limits the ability of the state to impose intimidating and coercive pressure on the citizen without adequate justification. Yet the experience of radicalized youth and those living in low income neighbourhoods is one of differential treatment and lost hope in the right ...
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A Privacy Nightmare on Wheels
Modern automobiles are prodigious datavores. But owners have little control over the personal information their vehicles collect and many manufacturers share it with government or law enforcement for the asking. No longer designed simply for transportation the automobile has been transformed into a corporate surveillance machine. Long gone is the ...
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Qakbot Disrupted by International Cyber Takedown
An international consortium of law enforcement agencies has disrupted Qakbot in the largest U.S.-led takedown of a botnet infrastructure. Between October 2021 and April 2023 Qakbot administrators received fees of approximately $58 million in ransomware payments. The investigation identified over 700,000 infected computers worldwide and netted the seizure of $8.6 ...
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Dishonesty Lies at the Heart of Trump Indictments
Former vice president Mike Pence said the president pressured him to reject the certification of the election result. And he said the president's cabal of crackpot lawyers pressured him. They asked him to literally reject electoral votes at a ceremonial proceeding in Congress that would have thrown the U.S. House ...
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The Meandering Saga of Keenan Corner
Three men burst into the garage and shot Shabir Niazi. It was a drug rip off. That's what Keenan Corner told the police at the scene. But at his trial for second degree murder he told an Oshawa jury he shot Mr. Niazi in the garage of his parents home ...
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Supreme Court of Canada Advances the Law of Organized Crime
The Supreme Court of Canada ordered a new trial yesterday for a Toronto man convicted by a jury of participation in the activities of a criminal organization. The charges stemmed from a police probe into illegal firearms trafficking in Ontario that included a wiretap component. In a 7-1 majority opinion ...
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