Category: Crime and Judiciary

Former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and two others have been formally accused of procurement fraud and corruption, conflict of interest and violation of professional secrecy, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office said on Wednesday. The three individuals were detained on Tuesday as part of an EU fraud investigation and have now been released while the investigation...

A South African court has sentenced a Nigerian national, Victor Udoh, and his South African associate, Vuyisekha Mzwakhe, to a combined 37 years in prison after finding them guilty of drug-related offences and other violations. According to reports on Tuesday from Nova News, a South Africa–based online news outlet, that the 33-year-old Nigerian and his...

Days after the Akwa Ibom State Governor Umo Eno ordered the arrest of any masquerades found on the streets, the Akwa Ibom State Police Command apprehended David Effiong, who was spotted in full masquerade regalia disrupting public peace as he set to be charged to court accordingly “Any masquerade found on the streets of Akwa...

 A former California sheriff’s deputy suspected of fatally stabbing his 11-year-old son was shot and killed by law enforcement officers on Tuesday after he led them on a car chase along Interstate 5, authorities said. Police in Elk Grove, near Sacramento, responded around 8 a.m. to a call from a mother who said she was...

Authorities charged a woman and her husband with murder Tuesday in the death of her pregnant biological daughter whose body was found in a Michigan forest three weeks after she disappeared. Rebecca Park, 22, was in the final days of her pregnancy when she was last seen Nov. 3. The baby had been cut out...

An international rights group on Wednesday accused the paramilitary group fighting against Sudan’s military of committing war crimes during its attack earlier this year on the country’s largest displacement camp in the Darfur region. The Rapid Support Forces, which is at war with the Sudanese military, rampaged through the Zamzam camp in April as part of its siege of...

 Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for his role in a drug trafficking operation that moved hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States, was released from prison following a pardon from President Donald Trump, officials confirmed Tuesday. Hernández was released Monday from U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia,...

Austrian police said Tuesday that two suspects have been arrested in Ukraine after the body of a 21-year-old man was found in a burnt-out car in Vienna last week. The police statement said the motive was unclear but “withdrawals from the victim’s crypto wallet were detected and a large amount of cash was seized from...

Suspected militants ambushed a vehicle carrying a government administrator in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing him, two of his guards and a passerby, officials said. The attack took place in the Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said Alam Khan, a local police official. He identified the administrator killed as Shah Wali, who served in...

 Iran has sentenced acclaimed director Jafar Panahi to a year in prison in absentia, even as he received new awards for his latest movie. The Tehran court also imposed a two-year ban on Panahi leaving Iran after convicting him on charges of “propaganda activities against the system,” his lawyer Mostafa Nili said in a post on X. Nili said...