Crime : Page 22
January 13, 2023
On 29 December 2022, the CNIL sanctioned the social network TIKTOK for a total amount of 5 million euros for two reasons: users of \"tiktok.com\" could not refuse cookies as easily as they accept them.
January 13, 2023
On January 10, 2023, in the Provincial Court of British Columbia, Teck Metals Ltd. was ordered to pay a total of $2.2 million after earlier pleading guilty to two charges laid under the federal Fisheries Act and one charge laid under the provincial Environmental Management Act.
January 13, 2023
Governor Greg Gianforte announced a proposed $18.5 million settlement agreement that resolves the remainder of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality’s claims in W.R. Grace & Co.’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case for the Libby Asbestos Superfund Site in Lincoln County.
January 13, 2023
Sales prices of cleaning devices and systems of the Kaercher brand have been artificially inflated in Poland for more than 20 years.
January 11, 2023
The FCA fined Al Rayan Bank £4,023,600 for failing to put in place adequate anti-money laundering (AML) controls.
January 10, 2023
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Guaranty Trust Bank (UK) Limited (GT Bank) £7,671,800 for serious weaknesses in its anti-money laundering (AML) systems and controls between October 2014 and July 2019.
January 10, 2023
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Stephen J. Easterbrook, former CEO of McDonald’s Corporation, with making false and misleading statements to investors about the circumstances leading to his termination in November 2019.
January 7, 2023
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced fraud charges against Cooper J. Morgenthau, the former CFO of African Gold Acquisition Corp., a SPAC or special purpose acquisition company, for orchestrating a scheme in which he stole more than $5 million from the company and from investors in two other SPACs that he incorporated.
January 7, 2023
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Randy Robertson, a former BlackRock Advisors, LLC portfolio manager, for failing to disclose a conflict of interest arising from his relationship with a film distribution company in which the fund he managed for BlackRock invested millions of dollars.
January 7, 2023
Pennsylvania-based medical device distributor Jet Medical Inc. (Jet) agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve criminal allegations relating to a migraine headache treatment, and Jet and two related companies agreed to pay another $545,000 in a civil settlement involving the same device.
January 7, 2023
A New York man was sentenced January 3 to 24 months in prison for conspiring to steal General Electric (GE) trade secrets, knowing or intending to benefit the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
January 7, 2023
The former Bolivian minister Arturo Carlos Murillo Prijic was sentenced on January 4 to 70 months in prison for conspiracy to launder bribes he received in exchange for corruptly helping a U.S. company win a lucrative contract from the Bolivian government.