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As the Google Search trial ends, DOJ seeks sanctions over missing messages

May 4, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Technology DOJ, ends, Google, messages, Missing, sanctions, Search, seeks, trial

The fate of Google’s search business is now in the hands of Judge Amit Mehta, as closing arguments concluded in the landmark trial on Friday. The Department of Justice and plaintiff states made their last arguments Thursday on Google’s alleged anticompetitive conduct in the general search market, and on Friday focused on its allegedly illegal [...]read moreAs the Google Search trial ends, DOJ seeks sanctions over missing messages

Hackers are threatening to publish a huge stolen sanctions and financial crimes watchlist

April 18, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Technology crimes, financial, Hackers, huge, publish, sanctions, stolen, Threatening, watchlist

A financially motivated criminal hacking group says it has stolen a confidential database containing millions of records that companies use for screening potential customers for links to sanctions and financial crime. The hackers, which call themselves GhostR, said they stole 5.3 million records from the World-Check screening database in March and are threatening to publish [...]read moreHackers are threatening to publish a huge stolen sanctions and financial crimes watchlist

Antwerp World Diamond Centre CEO resigns amid Russia diamond sanctions

April 12, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Beauty Antwerp, Centre, CEO, diamond, resigns, Russia, sanctions, world

By Reuters API Published Apr 12, 2024 Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) Chief Executive Ari Epstein resigned unexpectedly on Thursday, the AWDC’s board of directors said in a statement. A spokesperson for AWDC, Belgium’s main diamond industry group, said on Friday that Epstein, who had been CEO for 13 years, did not wish to communicate [...]read moreAntwerp World Diamond Centre CEO resigns amid Russia diamond sanctions

London regtech GSS raises $47M to help banks screen for global sanctions

March 26, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Technology 47M, banks, global, GSS, London, raises, regtech, sanctions, screen

Global Screening Services (GSS), a London-based regulatory compliance platform that helps financial institutions meet their global sanctions obligations, has raised $47 million in a round of funding. The raise comes amid a spike in economic sanctions, with the U.S. issuing trade restrictions and asset blocking against states including Russia, China, Iran and more. Enforcement GSS [...]read moreLondon regtech GSS raises $47M to help banks screen for global sanctions

US sanctions Nicaragua’s attorney general over human rights concerns | News

March 22, 2024 mpsingh No Comments News attorney, Concerns, general, Human, Latin America, News, Nicaragua, Nicaraguas, rights, sanctions, United States, US & Canada

Washington says Morales Urbina ‘exploited her office to facilitate a coordinated campaign to suppress dissent’. The United States has imposed sanctions on Nicaragua’s attorney general for what it says is her role in the government’s “unjust persecution of political prisoners and civil society”. Wendy Carolina Morales Urbina, who has been the attorney general since 2019, [...]read moreUS sanctions Nicaragua’s attorney general over human rights concerns | News

US sanctions shipping firm accused of links to Iran, Yemen’s Houthis | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps News

The measures come as Washington tries to curb the Yemeni group’s attacks on Red Sea shipping lanes amid the war on Gaza. Washington, DC – The United States has imposed sanctions on a shipping company it accused of facilitating the transfer of Iranian commodities linked to a Houthi official to China. The US Department of the [...]read moreUS sanctions shipping firm accused of links to Iran, Yemen’s Houthis | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps News

US sanctions LockBit members after ransomware takedown

February 20, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Technology LockBit, members, ransomware, sanctions, takedown

The U.S. government has sanctioned two key members of LockBit, the Russian-speaking hacking and extortion gang accused of launching ransomware attacks against victims across the U.S. and internationally. In a post on Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury confirmed it is sanctioning two Russian nationals, Artur Sungatov and Ivan Gennadievich Kondratiev. Sungatov and Kondratiev were separately indicted [...]read moreUS sanctions LockBit members after ransomware takedown