Fines

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, presided by Justice Ekerete Akpan, has convicted 21 foreign nationals over high-level cybercrime, fining each of them one million Naira.Justice Akpan, while delivering judgment on the plea bargain reached between the convicts and the Nigeria Police Force, ordered their immediate departure from Nigeria within six working days.The judge

A London-based Nigerian woman, Cynthia Chia, has been ordered by a UK High Court to pay £25,000 in damages to Idowu Ogunkanmi, a Nigerian-born businessman based in Dubai, after she falsely accused him of rape and launched a vicious nine-year campaign of harassment. The two, having first and only once met under the circumstances of

The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) announced that it had issued CAD 151,000 ($108,542) in penalties to Great Canadian Entertainment for alleged failures at three of its casinos. The fine was prompted by four separate occasions in which the casino company’s properties are said to have failed to prevent minors from gambling. Great

Charles Livingstone is a partner at Brodies LLP The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has handed out fines of almost £60m to 10 demolition contractors and secured the disqualification of three former company directors, after finding that the firms had engaged in bid rigging across 19 contracts worth over £150m. “Construction is regularly identified as

Channels Television has been fined N5 million by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) over an interview with Datti Baba-Ahmed, Labour Party Vice Presidential candidate.In a March 27 letter addressed to Channels Chief Executive Officer and obtained on Friday in Abuja, the NBC said the television station violated broadcasting code.Titled “Broadcast of an Inciting Interview...

Ten demolition contractors have been hit with fines totalling £59.3m for their involvement in bid-rigging. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) ruled in June last year that the firms, which include Keltbray, McGee and Erith, were all colluding on prices through “illegal cartel agreements” when submitting bids for contracts. The CMA previously ruled that, rather

Skip to main content The Federal Trade Commission has fined digital mental healthcare provider BetterHelp $7.8 million for sharing the personal health information of millions of consumers with advertisers like Facebook, Snapchat, Criteo and Pinterest during a seven-year period. Under the proposed order, which the company agreed to, BetterHelp also would be banned from sharing consumers' health

Image: Dominik Tomaszewski / Foundry Can the threat of a $1 million fine really dissuade people from using Tile Bluetooth trackers for stalking? That seems to be Tile’s belief as it launches its new Anti-Theft Mode, which allows users to hide the company’s trackers from detection. In exchange for this invisibility, Tile owners must agree