Sentences with phrase «of alleged money»

More witnesses were presented by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, January 28, 2016 before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to testify in the ongoing case of alleged money laundering involving the National Spokesperson of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh and his company, Destra Investment Limited.

In a statement signed by three Senior Advocates of Nigeria — Chief Akin Olujimi; Chief Karina Tunyan, and Sam Ologunorisa, Lima stated that it was sheer mischief for anybody to associate him with the ownership of the alleged money in the two company's accounts.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday set Thursday January 14, for the arraignment Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo), and Patrick Akpobolokemi, former director general of Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA before a Federal High Court, Lagos on a 40 count charge of alleged money laundering, conspiracy, stealing and diversion of funds.

Recall that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, recently ordered the freezing of some bank accounts belonging to the former First Lady due to the ongoing investigation of alleged money laundering.

Not exact matches

A lawsuit brought against Sater and others in 2015, which is ongoing, alleges that «for most of its existence it [Bayrock] was substantially and covertly mob - owned and operated,» engaging «in a pattern of continuous, related crimes, including mail, wire, and bank fraud; tax evasion; money laundering; conspiracy; bribery; extortion; and embezzlement.»

The complaint alleges that company A would give in to the threat, pay AT&T / Time Warner more money for Turner programming, and pass those higher costs (or at least most of them) along to its customers.

An inspector general investigation in February alleged that he used $ 122,000 of taxpayer money on a trip to Europe with his wife and that he improperly accepted tickets to the Wimbledon tennis tournament.

It's been a rough couple of days for President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, the subject of a federal indictment alleging tax fraud and money laundering.

Michelle Williams: All the Money in the World overcame tremendous obstacles to remain a viable movie following revelations of alleged sexual misconduct involving star Kevin Spacey.

Tezos co-founders Arthur and Kathleen Breitman are reportedly hoping to use money raised in the company's token offering to pay their legal bills as they defend themselves against class - action lawsuits alleging fraud and the sale of unregistered securities.

When it was all over, the tally of alleged wrongdoing cited here today, assigned to one party or another, included unpaid taxes (NDP), abusing election laws (Conservatives), improperly taking money from charities (Liberals), improperly claimed expenses (Liberals), illegal campaign debts (Liberals), illegal political donations (NDP), flouting Hill security (NDP), a potentially illegal cheque (Conservatives), secrecy (Conservatives) and sabotaging the committee to select the parliamentary budget officer (Conservatives).

Trump's denial was the first time he's made a public statement about the money given to Daniels ahead of the 2016 election to keep her silent about her alleged 2006 affair with Trump.

Internet security expert Joseph Steinberg told CNBC that the criminals typically do not demand a big sum of money, instead preferring to get the payment right away and insisting that the person from whom the ransom is demanded stay on the phone with them for fear that if connection is established with the alleged victim, the scam will be exposed.

It may be sufficient, he said, for AGs to allege that hundreds of thousands of residents spent a minimal amount of money in response to a data breach.

While predatory pricing technically remains illegal, it is extremely difficult to win predatory pricing claims because courts now require proof that the alleged predator would be able to raise prices and recoup its losses.405 Revising predatory pricing doctrine to reflect the economics of platform markets, where firms can sink money for years given unlimited investor backing, would require abandoning the recoupment requirement in cases of below - cost pricing by dominant platforms.

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Trump — who previously said he was not aware of the $ 130,000 Cohen paid to Daniels before the 2016 election in an effort to keep her quiet about an alleged affair between her and the President — denied on Thursday that any campaign money was used to reimburse Cohen and said he was paid via retainer.

Prosecutors in that high - profile probe allege that Scott Walker is at the center of a «criminal scheme» to illegally coordinate fundraising with Wisconsin Club for Growth and other nonprofit «dark money» groups during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections.»

Today one of the president's new lawyers, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, told Fox News that Trump in fact re-paid his lawyer Michael Cohen the money he gave to Stormy Daniels to stop her going public about her alleged affair with the president.

CNN's Gloria Borger, Sara Sidner, and Scott Glover report that Cohen recorded his conversations with attorney Keith Davidson, who represented porn actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, both of whom received money to stay silent about their alleged encounters with Trump.

A lawsuit filed in court on December 15, 2016, alleges that Paul Vernon, former CEO and principal operator of Cryptsy, a money services business, and virtual currency exchange, stole an estimated $ 8.2 million in customer assets through accounts maintained at Coinbase.

A Greek court has given the green light for the extradition of alleged bitcoin money launderer Alexander Vinnik to the U.S.

Tove Ryding, a tax coordinator for Eurodad, told CNBC she wasn't surprised by Germany's ranking and money laundering risk, given the number of recent scandals involving German banks including Deutsche Bank, which was fined by South African anti-money laundering regulators in February, and saw investigations launched over alleged money laundering for Russian clients in June.

It was Cohen who made the $ 130,000 «hush money» payment to Stormy Daniels in October of 2016, to keep her quiet about the alleged sexual encounter that she had with Trump in 2006.

Trump has been scandal - ridden for his entire career — from alleged affairs with porn stars, to hush money payoffs, to alleged corruption in his corporate dealings — and still enjoys an approval rating of over 79 percent amongst white Evangelical Christians.

Prosecutors argued that Hussain had not lied about how much money he told Cromitie, the alleged ringleader of the group, he would be paid for the attack and denied defense contentions that the men were entrapped.

Perhaps Notre Dame President John Jenkins has decided to finally get around to having Notre Dame put its money where its mouth is in regard to the university's alleged commitment to promoting the sanctity of life.

McIndoe is alleged to have spent the money on a number of expensive outlays including a # 27,000 - per - week # 2m mansion as well as spending # 40,000 on champagne in one day.

They allege that Franz Beckenbauer, Bayern Munich legend and then - chief of the organising committee, and Wolfgang Niersbach, current president of the German football association, were instrumental in ensuring that the money was repaid.

The former NFL running back recently filed a lawsuit alleging that, a few years ago, his advisor failed to invest $ 3 million of McFadden's money into Bitcoin, as instructed.

But all the headlines of his recent alleged misdemeanour were along the lines of Ex - West Ham player Blair Turgott «gambled # 16K of stolen money».

Many of my fellow food advocates have pointed to the fact that the SNA takes a significant amount of money from corporate «patrons» like ConAgra and PepsiCo, and they therefore allege that SNA's entire effort is being directed by Big Food.

The case against the park district, brought in a civil action filed last May by the Cook County state's attorney's office, alleges that park district officials improperly took office in the Southwest suburb, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers» money, failed to hold any recreational events and violated numerous governmental codes, including the Open Meetings Act.

The state's attorney's office sued the park district last May, alleging district officials improperly took office in the southwest suburb, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers» money, failed to hold any recreational events and violated numerous governmental codes, including the Open Meetings Act.

The Cook County state's attorney's office filed a civil lawsuit last May that alleged Park District officials improperly obtained their offices, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers» money, failed to hold any recreational events and violated numerous governmental codes, including the Open Meetings Act.

The two former ministers were charged by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) alongside one Danjuma Yusuf and a company, Joint Trust Nigeria Limited, on alleged money laundering to the tune of N4.9 billion.

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection has alleged that the Northern Regional Chairman of the ruling party, Bugri Naabu has collected people's monies, goats, cows among other goodies and promised them jobs with the School Feeding Programme.

On Oman Fm's Boiling Point on Thursday, he alleged that a number of appointees at the seat of government are making filthy money indicating that some persons are demanding bribes in return for jobs.

While Nwaoboshi was dragged to court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over alleged money laundering and conspiracy, two counts of money laundering and conspiracy before Mohammed Idris, a judge of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court.

FG specifically alleged that he acted in breach of extant provisions of the Money Laundering Act, the EFCC Act and the Public Procurement Act, for receiving huge sums of money from the office of the NSA, for unsubstantiated purMoney Laundering Act, the EFCC Act and the Public Procurement Act, for receiving huge sums of money from the office of the NSA, for unsubstantiated purmoney from the office of the NSA, for unsubstantiated purpose.

The clincher, of course, would be the vandals» campaign for the release of Dasuki, alleged chief operator of the illicit spigot, that splashed public money into private pockets.

But he said the gist of the call was that Cuomo had created a commission to investigate public corruption by elected officials, and made specific mention of Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo, alleging she has bilked taxpayers out of more money than «some of us take home in a year.»

The duo have also expressed their displeasure about assertions attributed to Mr. Rawlings about their alleged commentary of his receipt of the money from the late Nigerian leader.

Both FIFA and the Olympics Committee have been involved in numerous proved and alleged cases of bribery, where candidate countries funnelled money to the organizers in order to increase their chance of becoming a host for the next event.

He was alleged to have accused him of siphoning proceeds from the fuel price increases in the country and also alleged that Mr. Ibrahim and his brother, the President, usually used the monies stolen from the national purse on luxurious holidays in South Africa.

A leading member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) of Brong Ahafo Region, Alhaji Osman Banda has called on President Akufo - Addo to investigate the Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Hon. Kweku Asomah - Cheremeh for alleged money extortion.

On Tuesday, a federal high court in Lagos had remanded him in prison alongside former Minister for Finance, Nenandi Usman, Mr. Danjuma Yusuf and a company, Joint Trust Nigeria Limited, on alleged money laundering to the tune of N4.9 billion.

In his statement, Alhaji Banda alleged that Hon. Asomah promised the 2016 NPP parliamentary candidate of Kintampo North Constituency, Mr. Charles Inchanagabe to help him to become the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the area and later took money from some Constituency Executives but couldn't help him to become the MCE.

The immediate past Managing Director (MD) of the Bulk Oil Storage Transportation (BOST), Kingsley Kwame Awuah - Darko, has rubbished media reports that, the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), is on his heels for alleged payments and withdrawal of money from government's account.

Two state lawmakers — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Sen. Diane Savino — who gave campaign money to now - indicted Brooklyn Assemblywoman Pamela Harris, amid a grand jury probe into her alleged theft of taxpayer money, say they had no idea she was under investigation at the time.