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China Renaissance says detained chairman cooperating with authorities in probe

(Reuters) – China Renaissance Holdings said on Wednesday that investigations against its chairman Bao Fan by certain authorities were being carried out with his cooperation. His detention was extended for three months from May 7 after Bao was taken away by disciplinary officials on Feb. 7, according to a source-based report by Economic Observer, a Chinese financial publication. The probe is the latest in a series of high-profile Chinese executives going missing with little explanation during a sweeping anti-corruption campaign spearheaded by President Xi Jinping. The disappearance of Bao in February saw shares of the investment bank plunge as much

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17-year-old shot in Chicago, not cooperating with police investigation

CHICAGO, IL – A 17-year-old who was shot in Chicago Friday afternoon is not coopering with the police investigation, detectives said today. Chicago Police are investigating a shooting incident that occurred in the 7700 block of S. Jeffery at approximately 3:39 p.m. According to police reports, a 17-year-old male victim was struck in the thigh and then transported himself to Jackson Park Hospital. He was initially reported to be in good condition. As of now, there are no suspects in custody, and area detectives have launched an investigation into the incident. The Chicago Police Department said that the victim is

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SBF’s Former Business Associates Plead Guilty To Fraud Charges And Are Cooperating With Authorities, US Attorney Says 

SBF’s Former Business Associates Plead Guilty To Fraud Charges And Are Cooperating With Authorities, US Attorney Says  John Hugh DeMastri on December 21, 2022 Former business associates of disgraced former crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried have pleaded guilty to the charges brought against them and are cooperating with the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York, according to a statement by U.S. Attorney Damian Williams Wednesday. Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda research and reportedly ex-girlfriend of Bankman-Fried, pleaded guilty to seven counts, including wire fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud, while Gary Wang, co-founder of FTX

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Iran executes four men convicted of cooperating with Israel, state media report

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran on Sunday executed four men convicted of cooperating with Israel’s spy agency Mossad, Iranian state media reported. The Islamic Republic has long accused arch-enemy Israel of carrying out covert operations on its soil. Tehran has recently accused Israeli and Western intelligence services of plotting a civil war in Iran, which is now gripped by some of the biggest anti-government protests since its 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iranian state media reported on Wednesday that the country’s Supreme Court had upheld the death sentence handed out to the four men “for the crime of cooperating with the intelligence services

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India’s CoinSwitch cooperating with financial crime agency probe -CEO

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s top crypto app CoinSwitch is cooperating with the national financial-crime agency, whose agents searched its offices this week to find out about its business model and user-onboarding processes, its CEO told Reuters on Saturday. CoinSwitch, valued at $1.9 billion, says it is the largest crypto company in India, with more than 18 million registered users. The firm is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global and Coinbase Ventures. Ashish Singhal, speaking for the first time publicly about Thursday’s search, said his company was engaging with the Indian Enforcement Directorate’s unit in the tech

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Police Say Family of Teen Shot Monday in Miami-Dade County Not Cooperating With Investigation

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FL – Police in Miami-Dade County have reported that family members of a 16-year-old boy shot early Monday morning on 171st Street are not cooperating with their investigation. At around 1:07 am, police responded to the location after a ShotSpotter alert notified the department of gunfire in the area. Detective Angel Rodriguez, a spokesperson for the department said by the time police arrived, the teen had already been transported to Jackson South Medical Center by relatives. He is listed in critical condition. Police said they have attempted to speak to those relatives, but Rodriguez said none are willing

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Uvalde Police Not Cooperating With Investigation Of Their Response To School Shooting

Uvalde Police Not Cooperating With Investigation Of Their Response To School Shooting Laurel Duggan on June 1, 2022 The Uvalde Police Department (UPD) and the Uvalde, Texas, school district police stopped cooperating with the state’s investigation of their response to the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School which left 19 children and two teachers dead, according to ABC News. The Texas Department of Public Safety (TDPS) is investigating the local police which, according to TDPS Director Steven McCraw, arrived in the school two minutes after the attacker but stood outside the classroom where the massacre occurred for about an

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U.S. says Cuba not cooperating fully against terrorism, inflaming tensions

By Dave Sherwood and Matt Spetalnick HAVANA/WASHINGTON – The Biden administration on Friday once again placed Cuba on a short list of countries the United States alleges are “not cooperating fully” in its fight against terrorism, further inflaming tensions with its long-time rival. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in the final assessment published Friday in the U.S. Federal Register, named Cuba among five countries – along with Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Syria – that the United States says fall short of its expectations. The State Department is required by law to provide this list annually to the U.S. Congress.

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U.S. appears set to deem Cuba not cooperating fully against terrorism-document

By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON – The Biden administration on Thursday appeared set to renew its assessment that Cuba is among a handful of countries “not cooperating fully” with the United States in the fight against terrorism, according to a government document. Formal publication of the decision was scheduled for Friday, but Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, apparently responding to a draft notice in the Federal Register signed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, condemned it as “one more lie” coming from Washington. This follows the Biden administration’s announcement on Monday of a partial rollback of Trump-era restrictions on remittances and

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Activision cooperating with federal insider trading probes – filing

(Reuters) – Activision Blizzard is cooperating with federal investigations into trading by friends of its chief executive shortly before the gaming company disclosed its sale to Microsoft Corp, it said in a securities filing on Friday. It received requests for information from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and received a subpoena from a Department of Justice grand jury, the maker of “Call of Duty” said in an amended proxy filing. The requests “appear to relate to their respective investigations into trading by third parties – including persons known to Activision Blizzard’s CEO – in securities prior to the announcement

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