December 6, 2023
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The Colombian singer Shakira sat in court in Barcelona on November 20, where she settled a tax fraud case against her, paying over €7.7 million in fines and avoiding a potential prison sentence. According to El Pais, the star agreed to a €7.3 million fine instead of a possible €23.5 million fine on alleged unpaid
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Korean prosecutors are seeking a five-year jail term for Samsung chair Lee Jae-yong over charges of accounting fraud and stock manipulation connected to the controversial 2015 merger of two of the group’s units. Prosecutors allege that Lee, who was vice-chair of Samsung Electronics in 2015, was among a group of executives that inflated the stock
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Fines totalling 585 million naira (651,000 euros) have been cancelled. Thousands of detainees across Nigeria have been released from prison in an effort to tackle overcrowding, interior minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said Saturday on social media. The move marks part of a drive by Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who was elected earlier this year, to
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Samsung Electronics chairman Jay Y Lee denied wrongdoing on Friday after South Korean prosecutors called for him to be jailed for five years on charges of accounting fraud and stock price manipulation involving an $8 billion merger of Samsung affiliates in 2015. The hearing is the final lower court session before a ruling, expected within
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Cheers erupted in a Sydney courtroom as a former Home and Away star avoided jail time for dealing cocaine and laundering more than $100,000 of drug money throughout the Byron Bay area. Putu Sugiarta Winchester-Stanton appeared in the NSW District Court on Thursday after pleading guilty to supplying 286g of cocaine in the coastal region.
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Two former NBA players are facing jail time for their roles in a scheme that defrauded an insurance plan for NBA players and their families of more than $5 million. Glen “Big Baby” Davis was found guilty of health care fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to make false statements, and conspiracy to commit health care and
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A police officer being investigated in the killing of a 17-year-old of North African origin that touched off riots around France was freed from jail Wednesday while the probe continues. The prosecutor’s office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where Nahel Merzouk was shot, said magistrates concluded that continued detention of the motorcycle officer “no
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A formerly high-flying lawyer with “a temper issue” who attacked two police officers and threatened to violently kill three people will spend less time in jail, despite a judge lashing her “evil intent”. Madona Kobayssi appeared via audiovisual link in the NSW District Court on Monday to argue that her 18-month jail sentence was “too
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Turkey’s highest court on Wednesday upheld a controversial media law that mandates prison terms for people deemed to be spreading “disinformation,” rejecting the main opposition party’s request for its annulment. The legislation calls for up to three years in prison for journalists or social media users convicted of spreading information deemed to be “contrary to
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