The main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of US teenager Natalee Holloway has been extradited to the US to stand trial for alleged extortion. Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, 35, is accused of taking tens […]
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, […]
Police in Estonia have arrested two men suspected of running a $575m (£485m) cryptocurrency scam involving hundreds of thousands of victims. Estonian police investigated the case with the FBI, and US authorities want to extradite […]
A man at the center of a copyright scam that abused YouTube’s Content ID system to fraudulently obtain more than $23m to the detriment of artists has entered a plea agreement with the US government. […]
A federal jury in New York has found celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti guilty of defrauding his former client, the adult film star Stormy Daniels. Avenatti, 50, represented Ms Daniels in lawsuits against then-president Donald Trump […]
An entrepreneur accused of scamming investors for millions of dollars with a bogus blood test has surprised a US court by testifying in her defence. Elizabeth Holmes is accused of making false claims about her […]
British man George Bridi, an alleged member of the infamous SPARKS release group, has been extradited to the United States from Cyprus. He faces several charges including conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, wire fraud conspiracy, […]
It was a getaway attempt worthy of Ian Fleming, but in the end, a suspected US fraudster proved he was no James Bond. Matthew Piercey, 44, a California man accused of financial crimes, briefly evaded […]
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has been arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the US-Mexico border. Mr Bannon and three others defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors […]
Georgian former boxing champion Avtandil Khurtsidze has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for working as the “chief enforcer” for an “elite” criminal enterprise. He was convicted in June in New York of racketeering […]
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