Category: Crime and Judiciary

Fighters linked to Syria’s ousted leader Bashar al-Assad mounted a deadly attack on government forces Thursday, authorities said, in some of the worst violence against the government since Islamist-led rebels seized power. According to the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, 147 people have been killed including civilians executed on the spot. An earlier report said that...

A Chinese doctoral student was found guilty Wednesday in a London court of drugging and raping 10 women in England and China, as police warned there could be more than 50 other victims. Zhenhao Zou, 28, was convicted of the attacks between 2019 and 2023 following a month long trial at the Inner London Crown Court. He was...

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has intercepted a former immigration officer who was attempting to sell sophisticated firearms to bandits operating in the Abuja-Kaduna forests. The dismissed officer whose name was not disclosed was arrested following an intelligence-led operation by the police. Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, the Officer in Charge of...

Florida has launched a criminal investigation into British-American influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who flew to the state last week from Romania, where they faced rape and human-trafficking charges. Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, said investigators have issued search warrants and subpoenas as part of a “now-active” inquiry. In the US, the brothers also face...

“These guys, have themselves, publicly admitted to participating in what very much appears to be soliciting, trafficking, preying upon women, around the world. “Many of these victims coming forward, with some of them minor (people can spin and defend them if they want) but in Florida, this kind of behaviour is view as atrocious, we...

Florida’s attorney general announced Tuesday that his office has opened a criminal investigation into Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are charged with human trafficking in Romania, days after they returned to the U.S. Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on social media that he directed his office to work with law enforcement to conduct a preliminary inquiry into...

– Out of the 320 illegal miners that were arrested in recent months, about 150 are currently facing prosecution, while nine, including four foreigners, have been convicted. – FEC has approved N2.5 billion for the purchase of satellite surveillance equipment to combat illegal and unregulated mining nationwide. – To end the conflicts often associated with...

A Vietnamese court sentenced a leading independent journalist on Thursday to 30 months in prison over Facebook posts that criticised the government, state media reported. Huy Duc worked for influential state-run newspapers before authoring one of Vietnam’s most popular blogs and Facebook accounts, where he criticised the country’s communist leaders on issues such as corruption,...