Global telecommunications organization Alcatel-Lucent on Monday agreed to pay more than $137 million to resolve investigations into its sales practices by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) . The company will pay $92 million as part of a deferred prosecution agreement to resolve the criminal charges filed today by the [...]
International human rights organizations and numerous governments criticized Russia’s justice system following Monday’s guilty verdict against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev on embezzlement charges. Amnesty International (AI) urged Russian courts to overturn the verdict , claiming the trial was unfair and appeared politically motivated. AI claimed that prosecutors failed to provide due [...]
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai issued a decree Sunday allowing the country’s Supreme Court to go forward with its plan to set up a tribunal to hear complaints of fraud during the September parliamentary elections . The tribunal brings doubt over the legitimacy of the elections which have already been tainted by irregularities that forced authorities [...]
Nine men were charged and taken custody on Monday in the UK for conspiring to bomb the US Embassy and the London Stock Exchange . The charges come after British authorities had apprehended 12 men on December 21 as part of raids to capture suspected terrorists. Four of the men charged are from Stoke-on-Trent, three [...]
Detainees will continue to be held at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay for the foreseeable future, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs acknowledged Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” The statement comes almost one year after the Obama administration missed its self-imposed January 2010 deadline to close the facility. Gibbs also stated that [...]
Slobodan Zecevic : “The Sljivancanin Review Judgement delivered by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (hereinafter ICTY) Appeals Chamber on December 8, 2010 is a significant breakthrough in the ICTY jurisprudence. Indeed, it is the first time that a request for review of an ICTY judgement, under Rules 119 through 122 of the [...]
The Khamovnichesky District Court in Moscow found former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev guilty of embezzlement Monday. Khodorkovsky, the former owner of Yukos oil, and Lebedev were charged and convicted of embezzling 218 million tons of oil from Yukos between 1998 and 2003 and laundering over $27 billion in [...]
A Pennsylvania appeals court has overturned a Chester County Court of Common Pleas decision banning the use of evidence obtained with global positioning systems (GPS) technology. The three judge panel of the appeals court allowed the admission of evidence that could bring four more alleged burglaries to light. In 2008, GPS tracking devices had been [...]
The scheduled execution of Kurdish student Habibolah Latifi on Sunday was postponed by the Iranian government in order to investigate irregularities in the case, his defense lawyer Nemat Amadhi told ISNA news agency . Latifi, a law student, was arrested in 2007 and sentenced to death by hanging for his role in an attack on [...]
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Saturday expressed concern over the humanitarian needs of nearly 14,000 Ivory Coast refugees who have fled to Liberia over the past month due to political instability and post-election violence . The UNHCR warned that food supplies and available housing are running short and that an increasing number of [...]
