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Fraudsters jailed over international crypto scam

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2023
... purchased. "During the trial Boys told the court how he took £1,000,000 cash ($1.76m) in a suitcase to buy a villa from Russians he met in the back office of an estate agent and paid £60,000 ($105,000) to pay off corrupt officials so he could carry ...

Forrests invest in post-war, green Ukraine

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2022
... instead we will leapfrog to the latest technology," Zelenskyy said. "We will take advantage of the fact that what the Russians have destroyed can readily be replaced with the latest, most modern green and digital infrastructure." BlackRock Financial ...

Can Russia use crypto to get around sanctions?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2022
... this issue, as due to the nature of crypto and crypto exchanges it would be very difficult to place any restrictions on Russians purchasing, trading, or using cryptocurrencies. "Because it is peer interaction-based, where peers are anonymous, it is hard ...

Australia confirms economic sanctions against Russia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2022
... using its international reserves in a way that undermines sanctions. Further, so-called "golden passports" for wealthy Russians connected to the Russian government will be limited and a trans-Atlantic task force has been established to identify and freeze ...

Global markets shaken by war

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
... deep incursion into the country targeting Kiev - just like we are seeing now," Rodda explained. "It suggests that the Russians are trying to drive regime change here, and that could result in a protracted, messy and bloody civil war. For the markets ...

Oil slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... lowest closings since February 2009. Most of the market "doesn't have any ceiling. Americans don't have any ceiling. Russians don't have any ceiling. Why should OPEC have a ceiling?" is how Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi defended last Friday's decision. ...

Extensions - What the Greeks await and the Russians hate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... ceasefire agreement -A by the end of 2015. The BBC lists the key points of the Minsk agreement here. Not surprisingly, the Russians weren't too happy and threatened countersanctions. "Furious" was how the New York Times (NYT) described it: "Kremlin officials ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... Ukraine. But perhaps, not anymore... not with the downing of a Malaysian commercial airline over Ukraine last night. The Russians say it wasn't them, the Ukrainians and the rebels say not them either. Whoever was responsible, it has got to stop because ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... 21 Russian and Crimean officials and imposing travel bans on them. The US imposed the same "sanctions" on 11 - seven Russians and four Ukrainians. The sanctions got Vlad so bloody scared that, according to USA Today, "The Crimea moved one step closer ...

Crimea makes it domestic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... say in a referendum set for 16 March. With more than half (65% according to some reports) of the province's population Russians, guess which way the majority would vote? What's the West gonna do if the referendum gets an "aye" vote to secede? Certainly ...
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