Today, Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB has announced it has acquired The Pirate Bay website for 60 million SEK, which is roughly the equivalent of $7.8 million USD. This was confirmed on the Pirate Bay’s blog, with a heading mentioning the change of ownership.
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Fraud Office Freezes $100m Stanford Assets (Sky News via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
The Serious Fraud Office has obtained a restraining order on over $100m of UK assets linked to Texan alleged fraudster Sir Allen Stanford.
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Fraud Office Freezes $100m Stanford Assets (Sky News via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
N.J. Attorney General Anne Milgram plans to unveil mortgage-fraud indictments (The Star-Ledger)
APNew Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram TRENTON — New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram today plans to announce multiple indictments for mortgage fraud. Milgram and Criminal Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni are scheduled to make the announcement at noon in…
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UK Serious Fraud Office Restrains $100 Million Stanford Assets (Nasdaq)
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The U.K. Serious Fraud Office Tuesday said it had obtained a restraining order over $100 million of R. Allen Stanford’s assets believed to be held at certain London financial institutions after a formal request to do so from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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High court orders CBI probe into Jharkhand bitumen scam (Calcutta News)
The Jharkhand High Court Tuesday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the Rs.1 billion bitumen scam involving the fraudulent withdrawal of money from the state treasury for constructing roads.
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48 convicted, nine sent to jail in fodder scam case (The Times of India)
A special CBI court in Ranchi convicted 48 people in a case related to the infamous multi-million rupee fodder scam in Bihar’s animal husbandry department and sentenced nine of them to three years of rigorous imprisonment.
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WVa auditor scam suspect to answer to charges (Charleston Daily Mail)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A North Carolina woman accused of helping to scam nearly $2 million from West Virginias state government is facing her first court date in the Mountain State.Angella Muthoni Chegge-Kraszeski is scheduled to be arraigned in federal…
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How 10 Others Were Involved and Sentenced in the D.C. Tax-Refund Scam (Washington Post)
Ten people have pleaded guilty in the D.C. tax scam and been sentenced. Federal authorities are not likely to charge anyone else.
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How 10 Others Were Involved and Sentenced in the D.C. Tax-Refund Scam (Washington Post)