A Puerto Rico-based bank founded by gold bug and long-time bitcoin skeptic Peter Schiff is under investigation over suspicions it facilitated tax evasion for “high-risk” clients. According to reports on Saturday by several large media organizations in Australia and the U.S., Schiff’s Euro Pacific Bank has become the focus of a major global tax evasion investigation dubbed “Operation Atlantis.” Hundreds of account holders at the bank, […]
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Russian authorities have no powers to open a case against a Moscow-born attacker who beheaded a teacher in France, an embassy spokesman has said, adding that his origin is not as important as the place of his radicalization. Russia has no plans to launch its own investigation into the brutal murder committed in the town of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, not far from the French capital, the Russian embassy […]
Anti-terrorism prosecutors in France are investigating the death of a teacher who was decapitated on a street in northern Paris on Friday afternoon, according to local media reports and authorities. The attack near a school in the Parisian suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine occurred after the teacher apparently showed caricatures of the prophet Muhammad to his students, a police spokesperson told NBC. Citing a police source, Agence France-Presse […]
TORONTO (Sputnik) – The Canadian Supreme Court struck a blow to fighting government corruption by dismissing a new probe into whether a religious leader lobbied Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Democracy Watch co-founder Duff Conacher said in a statement on Thursday. The high court earlier denied a request for a new probe into allegations that the Aga Khan lobbied Trudeau during a trip to the religious leader’s […]
Gang warfare on the streets of London has not gone away during the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, if anything there have been more violent incidents than before the lockdown began. British police are investigating the murder of two men who were shot dead in different parts of the country amid widespread social media speculation the killings were revenge for a gang murder in 2017. On Monday, […]
The latest attack on the police station, located about nine miles southeast of central Paris in a housing estate area known for drug trafficking and deemed by authorities as a place to be restored, is said to be the third in two years. French authorities are investigating a Saturday night attack on a Paris police station by a group of about 40 people who used fireworks […]
Mail-in balloting, which has been touted by many Democrats as a safer way to vote amid the coronavirus pandemic, has faced intense criticism from some Republicans, who, led by President Donald Trump, suggest that the practice could lead to election fraud. Michigan Republicans called for a probe into a video that showed an unlocked ballot box with a single election-related mailing in it located in the […]
Women’s rights group Differenza Donna said two “fields of angels” graveyards at Rome’ Prima Porta cemetery contained burials of unborn children going back to 2012, bearing the mothers’ names but without their consent. More than 100 Italian women have urged prosecutors in Rome investigate after they found their names on graves of aborted foetuses. The women, represented by activist group Differenza Donna, say they did not consent […]
US President Donald Trump says he has authorized the release of “any and all” documents related to the Russiagate conspiracy theory and the Hillary Clinton email scandal, noting the material would be completely free of redactions. “I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any and all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax,” the president said in a tweet […]
India’s Uttar Pradesh state, headed by ascetic chief Yogi Adityanath, has come under widespread criticism for its handling of an alleged gang rape and murderous assault on a young girl. The state’s police have also come under fire for cremating the body of the woman, who died 15 days after the gruesome incident, in the dead of night. The state government of Uttar Pradesh (UP) on […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/05/1080667801_0:65:2950:1724_1200x675_80_0_0_a176a2becc376202828ac7f5b7c7afad.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Advitya Bahl. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202010051080667093-indias-premier-probe-agency-raids-congress-leaders-residences-in-alleged-corruption-case/ India’s main opposition parties, including Congress, have long accused the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government of misusing investigation agencies to target political rivals. India’s premier probe agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday conducted raids at the premises of Karnataka’s Congress chief, DK Shivakumar, in connection with a corruption case. According to a […]
The recent release of grand jury records on the Breonna Taylor case has highlighted a number of new questions surrounding both the police operation that killed Taylor and Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s overall handling of the case. Cameron’s office released redacted versions of some 20 hours’ worth of audio files from the grand jury proceedings on Friday. This came as a court-ordered response to the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/01/1080635893_0:19:3072:1747_1200x675_80_0_0_8121b6db24853659c9aa0d0ee5a26525.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010021080635880-eu-calls-for-transparent-probe-into-alleged-poisoning-of-navalny-will-return-to-issue-in-december/ The German authorities have repeatedly claimed traces of a nerve agent have been found in Navalny’s organism, but they have failed to provide any exact proof. The leaders of the EU have called for a transparent investigation into the alleged poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, European Council President Charles Michel said on Thursday. Navalny fell ill during a […]
Senate hearings in Washington have laid bare the failures of the FBI investigation, showing there was never any evidence of ‘collusion’, and it was all a campaign to ‘get Trump’. The US Senate Judiciary Committee questioned former FBI Director James Comey during a hearing this week over the recent Horowitz report. That report on the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe laid out significant omissions in how the FBI […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/01/1080627265_0:198:2950:1856_1200x675_80_0_0_d357e0c353ee57e82c0f09d7cd9a1c63.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010011080627320-trump-directs-administration-to-probe-us-reliance-on-foreign-states-for-critical-minerals/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order declaring a national emergency to deal with the United States’ reliance on foreign countries for critical materials important to the US military and economy. The executive order states that the US cannot be dependent on imports from “foreign adversaries” for the critical resources, which are crucial to […]
Former FBI Director James Comey arrives to testify during a closed House Judiciary Committee meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, December 17, 2018. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Former FBI Director James Comey arrives to testify during a closed House Judiciary Committee meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, December 17, 2018. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty […]
Beijing is preparing to launch an antitrust probe into Alphabet’s Google, looking into allegations it has leveraged the dominance of its Android mobile operating system to stifle competition, Reuters reported, citing sources. Two people familiar with the matter said that the case was proposed by tech giant Huawei last year and has been submitted by the country’s top market regulator to the State Council’s antitrust committee […]
Inexplicable sightings of a man flying 3,000 feet above LA in a jetpack have only become more puzzling with the release of FAA records on the incident, showing pilots reporting other unidentified craft to confused air controllers. Government records obtained by the Drive – including an FAA report and more than 15 minutes of audio between aviation officials discussing the bizarre sighting last month – reveal […]
Undercover videos published by Project Veritas over the weekend allege, citing a Somali political operative, that special ballot harvesters were hired in the community in July for the Democrats to take advantage of elderly and other vulnerable community members. The politicians named in the allegations have denied them. Minneapolis police have started investigating reports of voter fraud after an undercover video emerged allegedly featuring associates of […]
Bollywood Actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead hanging in his Mumbai flat on 14 June. The young actor’s death has caused a massive public uproar, triggering many questions. Three federal investigative agencies – Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) – are probing the case. As India’s top probe agency CBI has not yet come to any conclusion about […]
James O’Keefe of the conservative media platform Project Veritas over the weekend claimed that supporters of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar, central to her political base in Minnesota, illegally harvested ballots during a recent Minneapolis City Council election. President Donald Trump took to Twitter in the early hours of Monday demanding that the Justice Department look into Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota for alleged “ballot harvesting”. This […]
On 24 September, The New York Times broke the story that US Attorney John Durham, appointed by Attorney General William Barr to conduct a probe into the handling of the Trump-Russia investigation, also sought information about the FBI’s Clinton Foundation inquiry. Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel explains Durham’s focus on the charity. According to the newspaper, Durham tried to find out how law enforcement officials handled […]
Seoul has called on its northern neighbor to investigate the circumstances surrounding the killing of a South Korean government official, adding that it will increase security measures in response to the incident. North Korean troops shot and killed a South Korean Oceans and Fisheries Ministry staffer after he floated into disputed waters while apparently trying to defect. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un issued a rare apology […]
US President Donald Trump said the FBI targeted him for a “coup” after newly released documents showed that federal agents bought liability insurance over fears their handling of the Trump-Russia probe could lead to legal trouble. The new documents were disclosed in a federal court filing on Thursday by Sidney Powell, defense attorney for former Trump adviser Michael Flynn. Seizing on the new release, the president […]
On Wednesday, a hotly anticipated probe by Senate Republicans into corruption allegations against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, reported no evidence of wrongdoing. However, one analyst told Sputnik that investigators arrived at this conclusion by “moving the goalposts. The white-hot core of the impeachment of US President Donald Trump last December was his pushing the Ukrainian president to investigate the Bidens’ potentially […]
The district attorney’s office for the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, has suggested in new court filings that US President Donald Trump could be the subject of a tax fraud probe, as “mountainous” public allegations of misconduct exist regarding 45 and his businesses. Lawyers working for the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. issued a new filing in the US […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107791/12/1077911253_0:71:1280:791_1200x675_80_0_0_d1dcbca4417a790194a4b2f7973a457b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009201080516800-ex-uk-diplomat-under-probe-over-allegations-of-spying-for-china—report/ The investigation was launched by the Belgian security services, focusing on the former diplomat’s alleged ties to Chinese reporters who are claimed by security sources to be working for the Chinese Ministry of State Security and the Chinese military. Former diplomat and now the director of the Brussels EU-Asia Centre, Fraser Cameron, is reportedly under investigation over allegedly spying for […]
Last year, IG Horowitz found no evidence of bias in the FBI probe of the Trump campaign. However, it has turned out that over a dozen phones belonging to Special Counsel Mueller’s team had been wiped before being handed to the IG office. Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel says that the case should be urgently probed by nonpartisan prosecutors. On 11 September, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, […]
US Demands Hinder Spanish Probe Into Security Firm That Spied On Assange By Jose Maria Irujo, El Pais. September 13, 2020 US Demands Hinder Spanish Probe Into Security Firm That Spied On Assange2020-09-132020-09-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/assange2-1-e1600008213763.jpg200px200px Above photo: A pro-Assange demonstrator protests outside the Old Bailey court in central London on September 8. Tolga Akmen / AFP. American prosecutors want to know the judge’s sources before cooperating in an investigation into […]
The mystery was said to have been revealed by a former close associate of Jeffrey Epstein’s pal, French model scout Jean-Luc Brunel, citing a conversation with the former modeling agency manager that took place nearly two decades ago. Prosecutors in convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case have claimed, in the form of sworn testimony, that the late disgraced financier was funded at the beginning of his […]
The Republican chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee has called on the DOJ to investigate why members of Robert Mueller’s Russiagate team wiped data from dozens of cell phones during the Trump-Russia probe. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) penned a letter to the Justice Department on Friday, asking DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz to launch a probe after documents surfaced this week showing that Mueller’s team […]
Federal prosecutor Nora Dannehy has quietly resigned from her job aiding US Attorney John Durham. The unexplained departure sparked speculation about his probe into how the FBI and the DOJ investigated President Donald Trump. Dannehy sent a short email to her colleagues in the US Attorney’s office in New Haven, Connecticut on Thursday evening, the Hartford Courant reported. Both Durham and the Department of Justice have […]
US prosecutors are reportedly refusing to cooperate with a Spanish investigation into the company accused of spying on Julian Assange while he sought asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy, unless the judge accedes to a list of demands. Judge Jose de la Mata of Spain’s High Court is conducting an ongoing investigation into UC Global. The firm was previously in charge of security at the Ecuadorian embassy […]