BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil Prosecutor General Paulo Gonet decided not to charge former President Jair Bolsonaro with fraud in his vaccination records, asking the Supreme Court to throw out the case, a document showed on Thursday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Friday rejected billionaire Elon Musk's bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming he defrauded former Twitter shareholders by waiting too long to disclose his initial investment in the social media company, now known as X.
BOSTON (Reuters) - A former Haitian mayor was convicted on Friday of U.S. charges that he had lied about having led a brutal campaign to kill and torture his political opponents in order to secure a green card allowing him to reside in the United States.
KUALA LUMPUR: Online purchase fraud cases soared by 36.9% from Jan 1 to Monday (March 24) compared with the same period last year, with 2,328 cases recorded, resulting in losses exceeding RM19mil.
The country's truth commission has concluded that the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption programme rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and enabled by private agencies that often manipulated children's backgrounds and origins.
SEOUL: South Korea's truth commission has concluded that the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption programme rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and enabled by private agencies that often manipulated children's backgrounds and origins.
PETALING JAYA: Seven individuals from Malaysia and Taiwan have been charged in connection with a large-scale "pump and dump" investment fraud scheme, resulting in US authorities seizing over US$214mil in illicit gains.
JOHOR BARU: Police here are investigating two separate fraud cases involving a phone scam and an online gold purchase scam leading to losses over RM64,000.
KUALA LUMPUR: A former banker was charged at two Sessions Courts here today with six counts of money laundering and fraud related to the purchase of shares amounting to RM808,000, in 2013. Lau Min Thung, 43, pleaded not guilty after all the charges against him were read out before Judges Norma Ismail and Suzana Hussin on Wednesday (March 19).
The Securities Commission (SC) charged Lau Min Thung yesterday at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court for offences relating to securities fraud and money laundering.
HANOI: The bank at the centre of Vietnam's biggest financial fraud has received a central bank bailout amounting to five per cent of the nation's 2024 economic output, which a local white knight hopes to repay in 15 years, documents seen by Reuters show.
HANOI: With just a smartphone or tablet, consumers can now shop for their favourite products virtually anywhere.
SINGAPORE: Bail has been offered to three men allegedly linked to computer servers exported to Malaysia that might contain Nvidia chips.
ONE of the country's most high-profile police officers has been sacked over his alleged involvement in illegal gambling and financial fraud.
China has joined forces with Thailand, Myanmar and Laos to crack down on telecom fraud in the Thai-Myanmar border region, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Friday.
BEIJING: More than 620 Chinese suspects in Myawaddy, Myanmar, have been repatriated in a crackdown on cross-border telecommunications fraud jointly launched by China, Myanmar and Thailand, China's Ministry of Public Security said on Monday (March 3).
PUTRAJAYA: The Immigration Department has arrested four suspects for offering fraudulent immigration services to foreigners in a special operation in Kuala Lumpur and Bandar Bukit Raja, Selangor on Wednesday (March 12) and Thursday.
ZURICH (Reuters) - French footballing great Michel Platini was accused of fraud to torpedo his chances of becoming the head of world soccer's governing body FIFA, his lawyer told a Swiss court on Wednesday.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) will analyse processes within the National Registration Department (NRD) following the arrest of 16 individuals suspected of being involved in bribery related to birth registration.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore prosecutors told a court on Thursday that a case in which Singapore-based firms have been accused of fraudulently supplying U.S. servers to Malaysia involves transactions worth $390 million.