Protected Fraud: Georgian Security Chief’s Cousin Gets 12 Years for Call Center Bribes
Following a secretive trial, Andria Liluashvili was sentenced to 12 years in prison and stripped of $13 million in luxury assets for funneling monthly kickbacks from fraudulent call centers to…
Lab Owner Suspected of $547 Million Medicare Fraud Extradited to The United States
Khalid Satary’s laboratories allegedly used call centers, telemedicine doctors and kickbacks to turn medically unnecessary cancer tests into $547 million in Medicare claims. Court records indicate the program paid about…
Shahed-Type Drones Filmed During Mali Village Attacks
Bellingcat has geolocated footage showing Shahed-136 type kamikaze drones in operation in Mali. Defence Blog and France 24 previously published reports that these drones were being deployed on the battlefield…
EU Targets Georgian Oil Refinery Over Russian Crude Processing
The European Union is placing a deferred transaction ban on a Georgian oil refinery for processing Russian crude, giving the facility six months before the measure takes effect under its…
First person gets new experimental vaccine for Ebola
UK Freezes $30 million in London Properties Owned by a Man Under Investigation in Singapore Money Laundering Case
Britain’s National Crime Agency has frozen 16 luxury apartments in central London acquired by Xu Haika, who is under investigation in Singapore as authorities pursue their largest ever money laundering…
‘Women do not stop giving birth in an emergency’ – one month after Venezuela quakes
One month after twin earthquakes rocked Venezuela, thousands of women and girls continue to face difficulty in accessing essential healthcare and protection services, a senior official with the UN reproductive…
Middle East: UN warns against wider escalation after Houthi attacks in the Red Sea
As fighting intensifies in the Middle East, the United Nations on Friday warned against further escalation in the US-Iran war and the risks to global shipping amid the fight over…
After an Ebola centre was attacked, peacekeepers moved in next door
A new mobile UN peacekeeping base in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has allowed local authorities to continue responding to the fast-moving Ebola outbreak there after violence disrupted…
