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The Justice Department said Monday that it would drop its criminal fraud charges against billionaire Indian businessman Gautam Adani, a significant reversal in a high-profile case. The Trump administration asked a federal judge to permanently throw out the indictment brought in 2024 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York, saying it had “reviewed

Australians lost $2.18 billion to scams in 2025 and AI is making every attack harder to detect. The scam email that lands in your inbox today does not look like the ones from five years ago. There are no obvious spelling mistakes. The sender name looks familiar. The invoice matches your supplier’s format almost perfectly. The urgent

Saskatoon police have charged a 21-year-old man with several fraud-related offences after a Land Rover was stolen from Saskatoon in 2025 and located in West Africa. Photo by LIAM RICHARDS /Saskatoon StarPhoenix Article content No longer a goner, a stolen Saskatoon Land Rover has been found in Ghana. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) witness, Mrs Abimbola Williams, on Thursday, said that former Gov. Yahaya Bello’s name did not feature on the Kogi Government House Bank account. Williams told Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja during cross examination by the former governor’s lead counsel, Joseph Daudu, SAN, in

News December 9, 2024 by Eric Ikhilae, Abuja The failure by the former Accountant General of the Federation (AG-F), Ahmed Idris to call witness stalled Monday’s proceedings in his prosecution, along with three others, for alleged N109 billion fraud. Idris was expected to open his defence on Monday in the trial-within-trial being conducted in the

The Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) on Wednesday said it arrested and charged three men in connection with a $222-million fraud reportedly committed at the Institute of Sports (INSPORTS) between 2011 and 2017. Other arrests, MOCA said, are to come. Popular Chug It and French Connection party promoter Andrew Wright as well as

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has recovered an additional sum of N900,000,000 for the National Health Insurance Scheme, (NHIS). The sum is part of monies which some Deposit Money Banks fraudulently withheld since 2015, and refused to remit into the NHIS’ Treasury Single Account (TSA...

Newsmaker… Week: SSL fraud heats up amid resignation, home search Reginald Allen Sun, 01/22/2023 - 13:25...