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International

Suspects in Louvre jewel heist case arrested near Paris

Isak Andic, 71, plunged to his death while hiking in mountains outside Barcelona in December last year to widespread shock.
International

Spain probing Mango founder’s death as homicide: media

Motorists in Phnom Penh ride past a branch of Prince Bank, a commercial bank under Prince Holding Group. US authorities describe the conglomerate as one of Asia's largest transnational criminal organisations.
Companies & Markets

Karen Chen quits SGX-listed 17Live’s board after US sanction for alleged ties to Cambodian scam empire

Motorists in Phnom Penh ride past a branch of Prince Bank, a commercial bank under Prince Holding Group. US authorities describe the conglomerate as one of Asia's largest transnational criminal organisations.
ASEAN Business

US sanctions three Singaporeans in global fraud takedown tied to Cambodian scam empire

Scam centres across Cambodia, Myanmar and the region use fake job ads to attract foreign nationals - many of them Chinese - to purpose-built compounds, where they are forced to carry out online fraud under threat of torture.
International

US indicts Cambodian tycoon over US$15 billion crypto scam empire

Quah Su-Ling (left) and John Soh Chee Wen are accused of masterminding Singapore’s most serious case of stock market manipulation.
Singapore

Court rejects appeal of 2013 penny stock crash mastermind John Soh and co-conspirator Quah Su-Ling

MOM said some workers were misled about key employment terms such as salary and duration of employment.
Singapore

Services sector dominates cases involving misuse of work passes for foreign trainees; nearly half of probed firms face enforcement

The police investigation, dubbed Operation Echosteep, was launched in December 2024 after a box with some 1,000 iPhones - most of which turned out to be stolen - bound for Hong Kong was found near Heathrow Airport.
International

London police arrest 46 in phone theft crackdown

Sean "P Diddy" Combs was acquitted by a jury in July of the most serious charges against him - sex trafficking and racketeering - but convicted of two counts of transporting people across state lines for prostitution.
Lifestyle

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to more than four years in prison

The lower court judges that previously acquitted the companies were arrested on charges of bribery.
Companies & Markets

Wilmar found guilty of corruption as Indonesia’s Supreme Court overturns previous acquittal

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