Former Mozambique transportation minister Antonio Munguambe’s sentence for embezzlement was reduced on Tuesday from 20 years in prison to four years and five months. The Supreme Court of Mozambique upheld the verdict against Munguambe for his involvement in the embezzlement of millions of dollars from a publicly owned company, the Mozambican Airport Company (ADM). They [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday initiated contempt proceedings against former Serb nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj , who is being tried for war crimes, for failing to remove confidential information from his website in violation of tribunal order. The Trial Chamber filed an order in lieu of an indictment for [...]
Amnesty International (AI) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) decried on Monday Iran’s persecutions of lawyers, suggesting it is a move to repress dissent. They called for the immediate release of Nasrin Sotoudeh , Mohammad Seyfzadeh, Maedeh Ghaderi and Ghasem Sholeh Saadi, whom they claim are being held arbitrarily in violation of international law: [...]
The Ukraine Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) again charged former prime minister and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko Tuesday in connection with alleged corruption during her time in office. She was charged under Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine with abuse of office in connection with signing gas import contracts with Russia. She was given [...]
The Egyptian prosecutor general said Tuesday that former president Hosni Mubarak will be put on trial and could face the death penalty for conspiring to kill protesters during demonstrations in Egypt early this year and for other corruption charges. However, many are still skeptical that Mubarak will actually make it to court, especially since he [...]
The European Commission on Tuesday announced proposed reforms to modernize the EU’s intellectual property rights laws and create more centralized regulation. The EC, the EU’s executive arm, said that reforms are necessary to better protect against Internet piracy and to protect consumers from fake products. The EC said that counterfeiters are going beyond copying luxury [...]
The Moscow City Court on Tuesday upheld the second fraud convictions of former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev but reduced their eight-year sentences to seven years. The two men, already serving a sentence handed down in 2005 for fraud and tax evasion, were convicted in December of embezzling from [...]
A class action settlement for $410 million between Bank of America (BOA) and customers claiming they were illegally charged overdraft fees was preliminarily approved on Monday in federal court. A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida approved the settlement plan in which the plaintiffs’ attorneys, the Alters Law Firm [...]
Two Somali men pleaded guilty Monday to charges of piracy for their role in hijacking a yacht, which resulted in the deaths of four Americans. The guilty pleas by Jilani Abdiali and Burhan Abdirahman Yusuf join those entered Friday by Mohamud Hirs Issa Ali , Mohamud Salad Ali and Ali Abdi Mohamed in the US [...]
Microsoft on Tuesday appealed a fine imposed by EU regulators for failing to fully comply with a 2004 antitrust ruling . Microsoft is seeking to reduce or eliminate its fine of 899 million euros (USD $1.3 billion) in the General Court , the EU’s second highest court. The company argues that the fines charged by [...]
