LONDON: Former Pakistan cricketer Nasir Jamshed will be sentenced in February after pleading guilty in a British court to conspiring to bribe other players to spot-fix a Twenty20 match, the BBC has reported. The 30-year-old was banned for 10 years in August 2018 by an anti-corruption tribunal for his part ...
Read More »Property tycoon Malik Riaz’s UK assets to be returned to Pakistan
LONDON: Pakistani property tycoon Malik Riaz has agreed to pay UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) £190m in a settlement after eight UK bank accounts linked to him were frozen in August 2019. “The assets will be returned to the State of Pakistan,” the NCA said, referring to the settlement amount. ...
Read More »British-Indian Teenager tried to import explosives, jailed for 8 years
BIRMINGHAM: A 19-year-old has been given an eight-year custodial sentence after trying to import explosives from the dark web in an attempt to kill his father. Gurtej Singh Randhawa was arrested by the National Crime Agency’s Armed Operations Unit in May 2017 after taking delivery of a package he thought ...
Read More »British Indian bank employee jailed for money-laundering
LONDON: An British-Indian employee of Barclays Bank who acted as a “personal bank manager” to two money launderers has been jailed for six years and four months for his role in a conspiracy to launder more than £2.5 million that had been stolen using malware. Cyber crime officials said London-based Jinal ...
Read More »Drug dealers convicted for trafficking teenage girl in landmark UK case
LONDON: Two members of a London criminal gang who used a young woman to carry and sell drugs have been convicted for human trafficking in a landmark case in Britain, police said. The two men, Mahad Yusuf, 20, and Fesal Mahamud, 19, pleaded guilty on Tuesday at Swansea Crown Court ...
Read More »British scientist pleads guilty to 137 online sex abuse charges
BIRMINGHAM: A British scientist pleaded guilty to 137 criminal offences involving online abuse, including encouraging the rape of a four-year-old boy, the National Crime Agency said in a statement. Matthew Falder, 28, who dubbed himself “666devil” and “evilmind” online, blackmailed many of his 50 victims into sending “severe abuse images” ...
Read More »Facebook ‘refused to remove child porn and terrorist propaganda’
LONDON: Facebook has been accused of refusing to take down child porn and terrorist propaganda posted on the site, despite being made aware of it. Robust allegations made by The Times following an investigation claim the world’s biggest social media site could even be prosecuted in the UK, as some ...
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