Crime

Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi is liable to pay Bank of India over USD 11.5 million, including accruing interest on a personal loan guarantee, the High Court in London has ruled.

Ukrainian authorities claim that they have concluded an investigation into a former prosecutor with Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office and a team of lawyers who are believed to have orchestrated a $3.5 million scheme to buy off the country’s elite anti-corruption prosecutors and judges.

The seizure, tied to a sprawling corruption case involving senior oil officials, required heavy machinery to excavate stolen state funds hidden deep underground.

Tributes have been paid to a man found dead after a summer solstice rave at a stone circle.

Swindler Ekaterina Barrett was regularly spotted sweeping through London’s wealthiest postcodes in a Bentley, dressed head-to-toe in Gucci, and walking her beloved Italian greyhounds.

A train driver who died in a crash near Bedford went through a red signal moments before the collision, rail crash investigators have revealed.

A police force has insisted its officers were ’justified’ after footage emerged online of them lashing out at a group of young girls with a baton and Tasers in Rotherham.

“I’m a drug trafficker from the Northeast, my cartel,” raps El Makabelico. “With my AK-47 slung across my chest, I ride alongside El Komander. My souped-up .38 Super, encrusted with diamonds.”

It looks like the haul of a particularly successful Generation Game win. But these household items — and campervan — were what former Scottish National Party chief executive Peter Murrell thought it worth embezzling £400,000 of party funds to buy.

OSE founder and CEO Christophe Verschueren has been arrested in Belgium.

A leading British civil rights barrister faces contempt proceedings once again after a judge decided to refer allegations against him for a second time.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Prague (Czechia) filed an indictment today with the Regional Court in Prague against two individuals and a company for a €4.1 million subsidy fraud, following an investigation into a project involving an innovative production line for new types of toast bread.

The 79-year-old man, who can’t be named for legal reasons, went on trial charged with 74 counts of sexually abusing four girls.

A healthcare executive and her husband have avoided prosecution after agreeing to fines, community service, and a total ban from the Florida county where their six-month-old baby was found left alone on a beach.

A five-year-old student at one of Scotland’s most prestigious private schools attended class with ’cocaine’ in their bag.

Former British rugby league player Ricky Bibey was found dead in Italy after allegedly beating up his girlfriend while high.

Cops have discovered the body of a female just 500 yards from the home of a missing 14-year-old girl who vanished from the town centre.

An elderly man has been taken to hospital after being struck by an unoccupied car near a Fife primary school.

A man is to stand trial charged with the murder of his partner.

A second boy has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a 17-year-old in south-west London.

A £1.8 million inheritance dispute between two women, each of whom married the same man in Las Vegas, may turn out to be futile after a court was informed that the entire fortune might have been depleted from his estate.