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Indian-origin fraudster jailed for 8 years for targeting elderly victims in UK
Kishan Bhatt was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Tuesday, after pleading guilty in November last year at the same court, the Metropolitan Police said. Bhatt had defrauded nine victims out of more than GBP 260,000 in total, besides numerous further attempts that were blocked by financial institutions or jewellers.
Bar Council allows foreign law firms, lawyers to practice in India
The council said, "Taking an all-inclusive view, the Bar Council of India resolves to implement rules enabling the foreign lawyers and Foreign Law Firms to practice foreign law and diverse international law and international arbitration matters in India on the principle of reciprocity in a well defined, regulated and controlled manner."
Delhi cops nab Special 26-like scamsters who pose as Income Tax officials
In what seemed as a real inspiration taken from the Bollywood potboiler 'Special 26', over a dozen people, impersonating as Anti-Corruption and Income Tax officials, conducted a raid in the national capital, an official said on Monday.
Prerna Sindwani
A third of the world’s child porn is flagged off in India, Indonesia and Thailand
India reported maximum number of online child sexual abuse imagery (CSAI) cases, followed by Thailand, shows the data by US-...
Ellen Ioanes,Ellen Ioanes
A former US soldier linked to the Ukrainian far right is accused of robbing and murdering couple for money to fly to Venezuela
Valentyn Ogirenko / REUTERS A participant looks on during a rally held by members of the far-right radical gr...
Rebecca Aydin
Uber's investigations unit reportedly protects the company before riders
Paulo Amorim/Getty Images Uber's Special Investigations Unit protects the company before passengers, Greg Bensinger reported...
Carmen Reinicke
A former banker accused of leaking deal tips to his dad was convicted of insider trading - again
REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Former Perella Weinberg investment banker Sean Stewart. Sean Stewart, a former managing director at...
Kelly McLaughlin
A 22-year-old from Minneapolis who is jailed in Syria says ISIS recruited him on Twitter
CBS News Abdelhamid Al-Madioum. Abdelhamid Al-Madioum, a 22-year-old naturalized US citizen jailed in northern Syria, told C...
Ellen Cranley,Ellen Cranley
US attorneys reportedly knew that Jeffrey Epstein didn't qualify for Florida jail work release where he allegedly abused women
Evan Vucci/ File via AP, New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File Newly revealed documents show that...
Ellen Cranley,Ellen Cranley
A federal judge just handed Jeffrey Epstein's victims a major court loss
Stephanie Keith/Getty Images A federal judge dealt Jeffrey Epstein's accusers a setback in a ruling that shut down more than...
Ellen Ioanes,Ellen Ioanes
China secretly abducted a university president on a trip through Germany and convicted him in sham trial. Two years on, he may be executed.
Ng Han Guan / Associated Press In this Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, photo, a guard tower and barbed wire fences are ...
Erin McDowell,Erin McDowell
15 weird US laws you may be surprised to know exist
Netflix One common Netflix habit is illegal in Tennessee - but might be hard to actually enforce on the minor level. Some laws were written decades a...
Julie Bort
The lawsuit against Oracle's Larry Ellison and Safra Catz lists some eye-popping allegations behind the $9.3 billion NetSuite deal
Oracle Oracle executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison Oracle is in the middle of an interesting lawsuit in w...
Kat Tenbarge
Epstein bombarded Bill Gates with calls and contacts to score a meeting with the billionaire a year before his $2 million donation to MIT
Yana Paskova/Getty Images Bill Gates speaks ahead of former U.S. President Barack Obama at the Gates Foundati...
Ben Winck
A man was charged with criminal mischief after damaging Wall Street's 'Charging Bull' statue with a banjo
AP Images A man damaged Wall Street's famous "Charging Bull" statue Saturday by repeatedly hitting it with a banjo, police t...
Kat Tenbarge
Bill Gates made donations to MIT through Jeffrey Epstein -here are all of the tech mogul's connections to the financier
John Lamparski/Getty Images, Associated Press Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein Microsoft founder, philanthropist, ...
Ellen Ioanes,Ellen Ioanes
Hong Kong's leader says she'll withdraw the controversial extradition bill. Protest leaders say it's 'too little, too late'
Tyrone Siu / REUTERS An anti-extradition bill protester is detained by riot police during a protest outside M...
Áine Cain
Police footage from 2005 reportedly shows Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion littered with massage chairs and nude pictures of young women
Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images Jeffrey Epstein was arrested Saturday evening on charges of sex traffic...
Alexei Oreskovic
It took Twitter longer to secure Jack Dorsey's account from hackers than it would for a nuclear missile to travel around the world - and that should terrify you
AP Images; Reuters Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account was hacked on Friday. The ...
Megan Hernbroth
We still don't know if Jeffrey Epstein's money is floating around Silicon Valley, but several top venture capital firms say they've never accepted funds from the disgraced financier
Reuters Jeffrey Epstein Following reports that Jeffrey Epstein helped fund an i...
Susanna Heller
Prosecutors are looking into the network of women they believe Jeffrey Epstein used to recruit underage girls for sex-trafficking
Reuters Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photo taken for the NY Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offend...
Ellen Cranley,Ellen Cranley
Only 33% of Americans believe that Jeffrey Epstein actually died by suicide
Richard Drew/AP, New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP Jeffrey Epstein died in his Manhattan jail cell on August 10. O...
Kat Tenbarge
More than 20 Jeffrey Epstein accusers gave emotional testimony in court as federal prosecutors motioned to dismiss the sex trafficking indictment against the deceased financier
REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Lawyer David Boies arrives with his client Virginia G...
Julie Bort
Oracle is suing Larry Ellison and Safra Catz over the $9 billion NetSuite deal, thanks to letter written by three Oracle board members
AP Larry Ellison and Safra Catz A three-member committee of Oracle's board has written an extraordinary lette...
Lauren Frias
There's another allegation that ties a member of the royal family to a woman who says she was victimized by Jeffrey Epstein
Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images Jeffrey Epstein was arrested Saturday evening on charges of sex traffic...
