Category: Crime and Judiciary

 Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed Paetongtarn Shinawatra from her position as prime minister, ruling that as the country’s leader she violated constitutional rules on ethics in a phone call with Cambodia’s Senate President Hun Sen. The ruling means she immediately loses her job, which she had held for about a year. Paetongtarn was suspended...

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a 42-year-old woman, Mrs. Sanmori Taiwo, and her 62-year-old husband, Pastor Sanmori Joshua, for allegedly faking her abduction to extort N10m from relatives abroad. The state’s PPRO, DSP Olushola Ayanlade revealed this in a statement on Wednesday, he explained how the drama played out on August 23, 2025...

The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, South Africa has upheld an 18-year prison sentence for a Nigerian national, Chinedu Justice Obasi, for his role in a human trafficking syndicate in Pretoria. The ruling by the Gauteng High Court on Monday, August 25, 2025, affirmed the original conviction and sentence handed down in 2018, dismissing Obasi’s...

 Two men in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were among a group of people publicly caned on Tuesday after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them of violating Islamic law by hugging and kissing, which the court ruled can lead to banned sexual relations. An audience of about 100 people witnessed the caning on a stage in Bustanussalatin city...

 Former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez pleaded guilty Wednesday to a campaign finance violation in a federal case that authorities say also involved a former FBI agent and a Venezuelan banker. Vázquez, an attorney, became the U.S. territory’s first former governor to plead guilty to a crime, specifically accepting a donation from a foreigner for her 2020...

The Apetu of Ipetumodu in Osun State, Oba Joseph Oloyede, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison in the United States. The arrest, which was made alongside his alleged accomplice, Nigerian pastor Edward Abiodun Oluwasanmi, follows an investigation by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Oloyede, 62, who holds dual U.S....

A German court on Tuesday convicted a 16-year-old boy of supporting a foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Austria last year. The Syrian national, whom prosecutors have identified only as Mohammad A. in line with German privacy rules, was convicted of preparing a serious act of violence and supporting a terrorist act of violence abroad....

Japanese authorities bowed and offered flowers at the grave of a businessman to apologise for wrongfully charging him with exporting potentially sensitive industrial machines. Shizuo Aishima and three other executives were arrested for illegal exports in March 2020. He died of stomach cancer in February 2021, five months before the indictments were dropped. His family...

President Trump had signed an executive order instructing the Department of Justice to prosecute people who burn the American flag. “I think our nation now is the most respected nation anywhere in the world by far. They call me the president of Europe, which is an honor.”

American rapper Lil Nas X, whose legal name is Montero Hill, has been charged with four felonies stemming from an incident where he was found wandering naked on a Los Angeles street last week. The charges, which include three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one count of resisting an executive...