Ecuador and FC Cincinnati player Marco Angulo has died aged 22 following a car crash last month. Angulo died after suffering head and chest injuries in a car crash in Ecuador’s capital of Quito on 7 October, the Ecuadorian Football Association said. He was a passenger in the car that crashed into a metal barrier […]
Singaporean Wirecard whistleblower cancels presence at Munich trial
Pav Gill, the Singaporean lawyer who blew the whistle on the massive fraud perpetrated by Germany’s Wirecard financial services provider, will not appear in court in Munich on Wednesday after cancelling at short notice, the court announced on Tuesday. The court did not name Gill in its announcement. The lawyer worked for the Wirecard legal [&
Florida’s Sen. Rubio seen as Trump’s pick for State Department
WASHINGTON — Marco Rubio, the combative and hawkish Republican senator from Florida, is expected to be President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of State, multiple media outlets reported Tuesday. Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, was once a challenger to and critic of Trump, but has become a staunch defender and campaign surrogate. He was
European fake art network involving Banksys, Warhols, Modiglianis uncovered in Italy
ROME (AP) — Italian authorities say a network of European art forgers who painted fake Warhols, Banksys and Picassos and then tried to sell them to unsuspecting buyers with the help of complicit auction houses has been dismantled. Thirty-eight people have been placed under investigation, including six in Spain, France and Belgium. Italian authoriti
Armed Crypto Heist in Thailand Hints at Growing Trend of Physical Crimes Relating to Crypto
A Ukrainian cryptocurrency trader has just become the latest victim of a violent robbery in Thailand, where he lost 250,000 USDT in what law officers describe as a fast-rising class of crypto-related crime that spans across digital and physical worlds. The incident happened when the victim, Mr. Leibov, went to a hotel room he thought […]