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Razzlekhan and husband guilty of $4.5bn Bitcoin launder

August 3, 2023 World Justice News 0

A husband and wife cyber-crime team have pleaded guilty to trying to launder $4.5bn (£3.5bn) of Bitcoin that he had stolen in a hack in 2016. Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein were arrested last year […]

Gilgo Beach murders: Man charged over deaths of three women linked to unsolved serial killings

July 16, 2023 World Justice News 0

A wealthy architect has been charged with murdering three women linked to the unsolved killings of 11 people, which was the subject of the Netflix film Lost Girls. Rex Heuermann, 59, was arrested as the […]

New York jury votes to indict man who strangled NYC subway rider

June 14, 2023 World Justice News 0

A New York grand jury has indicted a former US Marine who was filmed placing a homeless man in a fatal chokehold on a subway train, reports say. The decision comes after prosecutors last month […]

Trump faces civil trial for E Jean Carroll rape allegation

April 25, 2023 World Justice News 0

Former President Donald Trump is facing a civil trial over an allegation that he raped an advice columnist nearly three decades ago. Jury selection is due to begin on Tuesday in a New York federal […]

Guo Wengui: US accuses Chinese tycoon of billion-dollar fraud

March 15, 2023 World Justice News 0

US authorities have charged a Chinese property tycoon based in New York with orchestrating a billion-dollar fraud. Guo Wengui and one of his business partners, Kin Ming Je, are accused of wire fraud, securities fraud, […]

Ghislaine Maxwell launches appeal against her sex trafficking conviction

March 1, 2023 World Justice News 0

Ghislaine Maxwell has launched an appeal against her conviction for helping disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. In a filing with the 2nd US Circuit of Appeals in Manhattan, Maxwell has said that […]

Fake heiress Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin reportedly being released from jail – but is banned from social media

October 6, 2022 World Justice News 0

Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, the infamous con artist who posed as a German heiress and scammed New York City’s elite, is reportedly being released from jail – but has been banned from social media. Russian-born Sorokin […]

Police charge man over string of shootings targeting homeless

March 16, 2022 World Justice News 0

Police have arrested and charged a man following a string of five shootings – all targeting homeless people as they slept. Gerald Brevard III, 30, allegedly struck five times in nine days in both New […]

Cryptocurrency worth $3.6bn linked to 2016 Bitfinex Exchange hacking seized

February 9, 2022 World Justice News 0

US officials have seized $3.6bn (£2.65bn) in bitcoin and arrested a colourful rapper and her partner. The Department of Justice said the action represents its largest-ever financial seizure. Heather Morgan and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein […]

Michael Avenatti: Celebrity lawyer sentenced to 30 months in prison for extortion

July 9, 2021 World Justice News 0

Disgraced US lawyer Michael Avenatti has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort up to $25m (£17.4m) from Nike. Avenatti, 50, who represented adult film star Stormy Daniels in a lawsuit […]

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Senegal PM proposes tougher anti-LGBT law, doubling prison terms

February 26, 2026 0

Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has introduced legislation that could double the maximum penalty for same-sex relations, making them punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The proposal was sent to parliament on Tuesday […]

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Rare prison sentences handed to Cameroon soldiers after killing of 21 civilians

February 22, 2026 0

Three Cameroonian soldiers have been sentenced to prison for their role in the killing of at least 21 civilians in the country’s troubled Anglophone region. The jail terms for the crimes, which took place six […]

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Nigerian court orders UK to pay £420m over 1949 killing of miners

February 8, 2026 0

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay $27m (£20m) to each of the families of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 by the colonial administration in the south-east of the country. The […]