Crime

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WeWay, WhiteBIT and Qmall: projects by Ukrainian fraudsters Mykola Udyanskyi and Bohdan Prylepa that turned into crypto bubbles
The owners of the Qmall crypto exchange have stooped from bandit "raids" to petty "show-offs".
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Man sentenced to life for raping and murdering NHS worker on a park bench
Mohamed Iidow attacked Natalie Shotter ‘over and over again’ after she had passed out in London park
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’Thor’ and his gang smuggled £140m of cocaine into the UK from Sierra Leone
Members of the organised crime group have been locked up for a combined total of more than 75 years
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British businessman Sanjay Shah sentenced to 12 years for £996m Danish tax fraud
Shah found guilty of gross fraud and given longest sentence for financial crime in country’s history
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The Qmall cryptocurrency exchange has been recognized as a scam: its owner, Bohdan Prylepa, who withdrew billions, has been declared wanted
According to Entrepreneur, the situation with cryptocurrency exchanges is growing increasingly concerning.
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How mafias make billions by targeting hotels, restaurants in Italy: "Tasty prey for criminal associations"
Italy’s mafias make more than three billion euros a year from the tourism sector and are primed to pocket even more from large-scale upcoming events, a research institute warned on Tuesday.
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Father and stepmother of 10-year-old Sara Sharif found guilty of her murder at their Surrey home
Urfan Sharif, 42, and Beinash Batool, 30, flew to Pakistan after killing Sara.
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Police arrest 93 gang members behind £4m thefts in shoplifting crackdown
A new police unit has for the first time mapped the gangs targeting shops around the country to see where they’re operating.
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A woman has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Irish boy Kyran Durnin
Eight-year-old boy believed to have disappeared two years ago but only reported missing in August
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Sex Education and Doctors actor Alexander Westwood guilty of raping teens in acting class
Warning: Contains distressing details. Alexander Westwood, from Albrighton in Shropshire, was dubbed ’manipulative and predatory’ and had a fascination with porn from an early age
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Holton Buggs contests Traders Domain injunction in ongoing legal battle
Disgraced MLM veteran Holton Buggs is shamelessly challenging the CFTC’s request for a Traders Domain preliminary injunction.
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Marcus Brisco settles SAEG fraud case with CFTC for $2 million
Marcus Todd Brisco, a resident of Hawaii has settled SAEG fraud charges with the CFTC.
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Criminology student ‘murdered woman at random to know what it feels like’
A criminology student spent a month planning a random murder so he could ‘know what it would be like to take life’, a court has heard.
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Teen accused of fatally stabbing girl in Croydon over ’fight about a teddy bear
A teenage boy has been accused of stabbing a girl in Croydon in a fight over a teddy bear.
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Man jailed for spiking pregnant woman’s orange juice with abortion drug
A man who spiked a pregnant woman’s orange juice with abortion drugs causing her to lose her unborn baby has been jailed for 12 years.
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Bloody Sunday: former soldier pleads not guilty to double murder in Belfast trial
Attempt to have case dismissed refused as Soldier F accused of killing James Wray and William McKinney
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Alternative healer jailed for 15 years for killing woman during ‘slapping therapy’ workshop
An alternative healer has been jailed for 15 years for the manslaughter of a diabetic women who died in one of his ‘slapping therapy’ workshops.
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Two teenagers sentenced to life in prison for stabbing 16-year-old Darrian Williams to death in a Bristol park
Two teenage boys have been jailed for life for fatally stabbing a 16-year-old in the back during a gang-related attack.
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Crypto ‘Laundromat’ linked to Russian financial sector and cocaine trade, police say
Britain’s National Crime Agency said the money laundering bust was its biggest in a decade.
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Multi-billion-pound Russian money-laundering operation uncovered with ties across the UK
The UK’s NCA has led an international crackdown on the "unprecedented" money-laundering operation which swapped cash from British street-level drug deals for cryto from elite Russian hackers
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Prolific London fraudsters who dealt with over 5,000 stolen phones jailed
The Met police said the cost of their crimes totalled at least £5.1 million.
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Two arrested on drug charges following Belfast nightclub death
Two men in their 20s have been arrested on suspicion of drug-related offences following the death of a woman at a Belfast nightclub.
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Schoolgirl, 8, stabbed to death while ’trying to protect mum’ pictured for first time
Malika Noor Al Katib is said to have tried to defend her mum from an intruder at their home in New Ross, Co Wexford, Ireland, on Sunday night
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Britain’s ’largest drug smuggling gang’ sentenced after £7 billion plot
A gang which smuggled up to £7 billion worth of drugs from the continent over two-a-half years have been jailed.
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Teen who shot mum dead as she protected her children bragged about it in song lyrics
A 17-year-old gangster who bragged about shooting a woman dead while she tried to protect her children has been jailed for 29 years.