Sentences with phrase «in economic crime»

It is proposed to make this new enforcement method available where companies have admitted their complicity in economic crime such as bribery.

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Wu Xiaohui, the former chairman of China's Anbang Insurance, has changed course and requested leniency at the end of his high - profile trial in Shanghai for alleged economic crimes such as fraud and a $ 10 billion embezzlement.

Crimes in cyberspace will cost the global economy $ 445 billion in 2016 — more than the market cap of Microsoft ($ 411 billion), Facebook ($ 314 billion) or ExxonMobil ($ 332 billion)-- according to an estimate from the World Economic Forum's 2016 Global Risks Report.

Shteir offers an account of the crime's evolution from Elizabethan London, where the term «shoplifting» first appeared, through the present day, when the economic downturn is being linked to a big spike in consumer thefts — up 8.8 % in the U.S. in the first year of the Great Recession.

FAIR also points to rises in crime from undocumented workers as an economic and societal threat.

A social media post last week for the police in Liaoning, the northeastern border province of China, said they were investigating the firm's alleged long - term involvement in «serious economic crimes» and that relevant suspects were cooperating.

«We are only targeting criminals around him who are committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice,» said the spokesman, major general S.B. Moyo.

«The Complacent Class» focuses on trends like rising segregation, disappointing economic growth and technological progress, and a recent uptick in civil unrest and crime, not to mention the populist backlash that carried Donald Trump to power.

The World Economic Forum predicts that crimes in cyberspace will cost the global economy $ 445 billion this year.

Toward the goal of clean capital markets, in 2004 Byrne began a vigorous citizen - journalist campaign focusing on regulatory capture, hedge fund mischief, settlement system failures, systemic risk, and the possibility of economic warfare against the US by organized crime and foreign governments.

Adding to the concerns are other economic problems including a high unemployment rate of over 25 %, the recent demise of the country's VBS Mutual Bank amid a «severe liquidity crisis,» as well as the highest rate of economic crime (77 %) in the world, according to PwC's biennial Global Economic Crimeeconomic problems including a high unemployment rate of over 25 %, the recent demise of the country's VBS Mutual Bank amid a «severe liquidity crisis,» as well as the highest rate of economic crime (77 %) in the world, according to PwC's biennial Global Economic Crimeeconomic crime (77 %) in the world, according to PwC's biennial Global Economic Crime Sucrime (77 %) in the world, according to PwC's biennial Global Economic CrimeEconomic Crime SuCrime Survey.

Whether Stalin was atheist is not the point (and many believe he was not); his supposed atheism wasn't the cause of his crimes in Russia, nor was it the cause of their economic downfall.

They are unhappy with developments in America, but rather than direct their anger against the corporate economic powers that are doing them dirt, they have instead been diverted to conservative cultural issues» race, crime, moral decay, homosexuality, guns, abortion, feminism, anti-Americanism, and on into infinity» that are largely irrelevant to their lives.

Similar attacks were made on the Church of England's report Faith in the City (1985), which was criticized by some for blaming crime and delinquency on bad social and economic conditions, rather than on the individual's moral failure.

A multitude of local programs, differing according to the national cultures and social systems in which they sparing up, struggle to improve public education, deliver medical care, reduce crime, and enhance economic opportunity.

Violence, whether in the form of crime in the streets, the arms race, or economic or foreign policy, has important sexual aspects.

[The] report served the time - tested purpose: Whenever the system is in crisis (or shows signs of becoming transformed); whenever blacks get restless (or show strength); whenever whites in significant numbers show signs of coming together with blacks to confront their mutual problems (or enemies), the trick is to shift the focus from the real struggle for political and economic empowerment to black «crime,» degeneracy, pathology, and — in Moynihan's innovative twist — the «deterioration» of the black family.

If those elements of the population for whom crime is an acceptable alternative grow to any sizable percentage because of economic privation or because of prejudice, or if these alienated groups are prevented from finding a way to work within the system, then the whole society will be reduced very quickly to choosing between living in a police state or living in anarchy.

The Club through the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation has a long established, productive and valued partnership with the council and the local community in an area with significant socio - economic challenges such as high unemployment and high levels of crime.

Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago,» NBER Working Paper 21178 (Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2015), 17 - 19.

Child Abuse Declines Nationally in Spite of Economic Deterioration Child abuse declined nationally in 2008 compared to 2007, according to a new report by the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire.

The Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development maintains an international blacklist of jurisdictions which fail to cooperate in tackling financial crime.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has reacted to «a story entitled, CJN, Okonjo - Iweala, Fayemi, Fayose, Others Under Probe - EFCC, which appeared in The Punch Newspaper of today Wednesday September 6, 2017 regarding a list of high profile persons, including the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, former Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Kayode Fayemi and Justice Abdu Kafarati of the Federal High Court, who are said to be currently under investigation by the Commission.

The protesters declared their support for the anti-corruption crusade of President Muhammadu Buhari and called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to bring Fayose and all those who participated in the alleged looting of Ekiti to justice.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has finally arraigned immediate past governor of Benue State, Mr Gabriel Suswam, before the Federal High Court in Abuja, for allegations bothering on money laundering and corruption charges.

But the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission officials in Lagos claimed as follows: that «they have found a hotel being constructed by Governor Yari of Zamfara state with three million dollars he stole from London - Paris Club loan refund to Nigerian states.

The governor also accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of embarking on a witch - hunt of the contractors handling the state's projects in order to frustrate his government and prepare the ground for the All Progressives Congress» return.

The statement reads,» It has come to the knowledge of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC that some unscrupulous individuals parading themselves as operatives of the Commission have been harassing some prominent persons in the country on the pretext of purportedly executing Search Warrants on behalf of the Commission.

According to the report, Senate suspended the consideration of the bill which sought to amend Section 308 (2) of the 1999 Constitution to allow for the prosecution of the affected leaders on matters relating to economic and financial crimes even when in office, because it was introduced to the Senate after the constitution review committee had submitted a report on the key amendments to be effected in the life of the Eighth National Assembly.

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC arrested Mr. Yakubu after about $ 9.8 million cash was found in his house in Kaduna.

«We will review the relationship between the economic crime command and the other agencies in due course to ensure there is an effective working relationship between them,» she wrote in a letter to the Bond anti-corruption group.

In these tough economic times, how do we make our forces efficient enough to cut crime on a tighter budget?

The Minister of Aviation and spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani - Kayode is to remain in the custody of the he Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the next three weeks.

This was made through court documents filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in defence of the detention of Dasuki.

Salisu's revelations were contained in a Statement of Witness / Accused, written under oath in the presence of investigators of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The power of the organised crime lies in its involvement into seemingly legal activities and in the control exercised over entire economic sectors through systematic extortion and violence.

Yet another shortcoming of Butt's theory is that it focuses monolithically on economic reparations, when in fact, economic redistribution is quite insufficient for the reparation of the most egregious crimes of colonialism.

Tom Gash is a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economic's Mannheim Centre for Criminology and a former crime adviser in the Number 10 Strategy Unit.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday made another startling revelation concerning the embattled former National security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki as it relates to the huge amount of money he doled out while he was in office.

Former governor of Plateau state and senator representing Plateau North, Jonah Jang has been remanded in prison after his arraignment at Kogi state high court on May 16 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has on Tuesday arraigned a former Director - General of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Emeka Mba alongside three others before Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on a 15 - count charge of money laundering and procurement fraud to the tune of N2.8 billion.

Lagos Lawyer and human rights activist, Ebun - Olu Adegboruwa, has asked the Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, to order the immediate release of Chief Olisa Metuh, the spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Folaji was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, sequel to a petition from the Security and Exchange Commission, SEC in 2010, where it was alleged that he fraudulently sold the shares of Adesoye Holdings Limited in IPWA Plc..

In February 2017, the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) froze the assets of Dr Opuni as part of investigations into his tenure as CEO of COCOBOD.

He said it was disheartening that any group in the region could hold a protest in favour of Mrs. Jonathan at the Port Harcourt zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, over the freezing of her account containing about $ 31.4 m.

Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja has lambasted the Economic and Financial crimes Commission (EFCC) over display of gross misconduct in...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, May 17, 2018, arraigned one Yohana Margif, a suspected serial fraudster, before Justice C. O. Agbaza of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, sitting in Jabi, Abuja, on a 7 - count charge of conspiracy, forgery and fraud.

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Nine former Cuomo associates have either admitted to crimes or are facing trial on charges including bribery and bid rigging in connection with the governor's economic development projects.

The committee members were particularly displeased with what they called arbitrary manner in which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) used the banks to close the accounts without complying with due process of law.