Mondaq

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

On December 31, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari assented to the Finance Act 2020 ("the Act"). The Act introduces sweeping changes to virtually all the major legislations governing taxation in Nigeria.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

RCMP Sergeant Charles Poirier reported that investigators believed Nicolas started hatching his plan as early as January 2020 and “went to several countries there to recruit people to get some financing and also to acquire weapons, which he was unsuccessful in doing.”

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JURIST

MAY 6, 2025

Juan Carlos was initially investigated for tax violations by public prosecutors in 2020, but the Public Prosecutor’s Office closed the case in 2022 after Juan Carlos regularized his tax obligations by paying authorities over five million euros to account for undeclared income.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 30, 2024

They include four charges of abuse of power under section 23 (1) of the Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 (MACC) and 21 charges of money laundering under Section 4(1) (a) of the Anti Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act 2001 (AMLATFA). The fund was created to finance economic development projects in Malaysia.

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Diane Drain

MARCH 22, 2021

CFPB Submits 2020 Report to Congress on the Administration of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released the 2020 annual report to Congress on the administration of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). The CFPB resolved two of these cases. The report is available here.

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JURIST

AUGUST 30, 2022

Russian police Monday charged independent Russian journalist Andrey Zayakin with financing extremist activity for a small dollar donation Zayakin made to Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), a foundation started by Russian dissident and critic Alexei Navalny. Zayakin faces up to eight years prison for donating 1,000 rubles ($16) to FBK.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 26, 2021

Law firms didn’t let the pandemic get in the way of profitability or performance in 2020. on average in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to Thomson Reuters — and 15% among AmLaw 100 firms. Some executed successful staffing strategies using contract attorneys in 2020. Real estate finance or M&A?

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JURIST

JANUARY 13, 2024

The MACC is conducting investigations into the expenditure of the preceding administration, prompted by allegations of misappropriation of public funds during the 2020 to 2022 campaign period. As part of this investigation, MACC is engaged in investigation of former officials, including close aides of the former prime minister.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Barnes also stated that Chow disregarded the law as she incited other to participate in the 2021 Tiananmen Square vigil while awaiting trial over charges in relation to the 2020 Tiananmen Square vigil. The 2020 vigil was also prohibited by the police due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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JURIST

JUNE 11, 2022

Morales’ Movement to Socialism (MAS) party retook power in 2020, installing Morales’ former Finance Minister, Luis Arce as president. .” The alleged coup occurred in 2019 after Evo Morales resigned as president and Anez took over after Morales fled the country amid protests.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 18, 2021

trillion in 2020 to €1.76 trillion in 2021, according to the latest report by Brand Finance, as Europe continues to rebound more slowly than other major markets. billion, down 15 percent from 2020. In accordance with these metrics, Brand Finance determined that Exor N.V.-owned billion (down 16.6 percent year-over-year.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

UN experts aimed to investigate legal frameworks in Armenia after the ratification of the International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries during the visit. The Armenian government made the commitment during an eight-day visit by UN experts to the country.

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JURIST

MARCH 24, 2024

Rosfinmonitoring is a federal organization responsible for combatting international money laundering and terrorist financing, as well as assessing national security threats. Other organizations on their list include Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Furthermore, gender affirming care for transgender individuals in Russia was banned in July 2023.

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JURIST

JULY 5, 2021

He allegedly used the Secretariat of State’s funds for non-charitable purposes including financing his family members. Although Becciu has kept his title on paper, the Pope required his resignation over the alleged crimes in 2020.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The FSV was used by the tax authority from late 2013 to early 2020, after which it was discontinued due to several media reports discrediting the system. The Minister of Finance has a right to officially respond to the DDPA’s investigation. Often the data was inaccurate, out-of-date or unrelated to possible fraud.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 29, 2024

Collective actions and the financing of complex mass damage cases have been among the most debated and controversial topics in civil justice in Europe over the past decade. The book Financing Collective Actions in the Netherlands: Towards a Litigation Fund?

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JURIST

AUGUST 31, 2021

In light of this, here are some things that might happen in the not-too-distant future: 1: Afghanistan is losing many of its strategic partners/donors through which the country has witnessed growth in agriculture, mining and energy, banking and finance, trade, transit, etc. He was only the Finance Manager of the Taliban.

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JURIST

JANUARY 21, 2022

The anonymity offered by crypto platforms enables their use in illegal activities such as money laundering, terrorist financing, extortion, bribery and the drug trade. The paper, titled ‘Cryptocurrencies: Trends, Risks, and Regulation’ notes the global market for cryptocurrencies skyrocketed in 2021 to $2.3

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Respondents to the 2020 Survey were asked if their firms budget for technology. In 2020, 59% of solos responded that they did not budget for technology and 41% of firms with 2-9 attorneys did not budget for technology (and 12% didn’t know). In 2020, however, firms with 2-9 attorneys have increased their spending.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2023

Householder was arrested in 2020, along with Juan Cespedes and Neil Clark, lobbyists who allegedly furthered the scheme, Borges and Householder adviser Jeffrey Longstreth, who was also the president and secretary of Generation Now. Randazzo resigned after his condo was searched by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in 2020.

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Intelligize Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, companies and their vendors have needed creative solutions to keep supply chains moving. One solution that has become increasingly popular involves third-party financing for companies’ purchases. Under […].

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The most recent vigils, held in defiance of a 2020 ban, have led to the arrest of a number of prominent pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong. Chow and four other members of Alliance were arrested on September 8, after they refused to provide information about the group’s membership, finances and activities to police.

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JURIST

JUNE 8, 2023

Accused of masterminding and financing the genocide of the Tutsi ethnic minority group in Rwanda, Kabuga was arrested near Paris, France in 2020. He was first indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in 1997 before being transferred to the IRMCT.

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Hoban Law Group

MARCH 23, 2021

Bob and Eric sit down with Founder of the Alternative Finance Network, Scott Jordan to discuss how cannabis banking has changed over the last decade, how attitudes toward cannabis finance have changed since the 2020 election, and why MSOs are positioning for cannabis industry consolidation. appeared first on Hoban Law Group.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The appellate court ruled similarly in 2020. When the defendant raised concerns about the proverbial “floodgates” being thrown open to class actions that could ruin employers’ rights and finances, however, the court replied by reaffirming the “substantial force” the legislature intended for privacy laws.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

.” It also states that the Bolivarian National Guard participated in numerous arbitrary detentions up until 2020. Most of these detentions stemmed from state-financed media outlets that stigmatized the detainees.

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The Crime Report

JULY 8, 2022

Random drug tests on people incarcerated in state prisons rose from 2 percent between July 2020 and June 2021 to 3.7 percent between July 2021 and February 2022, according to the Legislative Finance Committee. Instead, the policy has increased drug use in New Mexico’s prison system.

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LexForti

JANUARY 21, 2022

This article discusses the scope and growth of litigation finance in India. Concept of Litigation Finance. AK Balaji clarifies that there is no bar on non-lawyers to engage in legal financing agreements. In March 2019, a third-party finance deal was sealed between a group of investors and Hindustan Construction Co.

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JURIST

APRIL 27, 2021

If the petition still has a sufficient number of signatures, the California Department of Finance will then have 30 days to estimate the cost of the recall election and move forward with setting a date. This effort marks the fifth attempt to recall Newsom and was initiated in January 2020.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Donziger appealed the district judges’ decision, arguing that the injunction wrongfully encroached on his ability to enforce the Ecuadorian judgment in other countries on behalf of his clients, devastated his law practice, and would preclude his clients from financing an appeal by selling interests in the Ecuadorian judgment.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

million messages between April 2019 and April 2020 without consent. million emails between December 2019 and February 2020. As a result, the ICO levied a fine of £150,000 and £75,000 on Saga Services and Saga Personal Finance respectively. Although the initial emails were legal, it sent 91 million emails and 3.6

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The Hollywood Lawyer

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In 2020, Chance The Rapper released The Big Day , his first studio album. Critics lauded the new record, but fans were not as supportive, and tour ticket sales were down. Chance fired his former manager, Pat Corcoran, in April. ” for being fired after the album failed to drive sales in April. www.thehollywoodlawyer.com.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This comes shortly after the first-ever meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance discussion on the broad contours of crypto finance, during which the committee agreed that cryptocurrencies cannot be banned, but they must be regulated. It was opined that the curbs were excessive.

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JURIST

MARCH 3, 2023

A Belarusian court Friday sentenced Ales Bialiatski, the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient, to ten years in prison for allegedly attempting to overthrow the government through financing anti-government demonstrations in the region. The verdict received international condemnation, including from the US , the EU and the UN.

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MyCase

DECEMBER 1, 2020

2020 was my third year covering legal software for the ABA Journal, and for my November column , I rounded up all of the legal software tools I wrote about in 2020. Even under normal circumstances, when clients put off paying a legal bill – or even ignore it completely – law firm finances can be affected significantly.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As 2020 drew to a close, lenders, borrowers and other finance professionals had well and truly adjusted to the "new normal" and remote working lockdown restrictions had very little noticeable.

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DECEMBER 27, 2020

Entitled the “Law on Preventing the Financing of the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction,” the new legislation includes controversial amendments to an existing law on aid collection. In July 2020, a Turkish court convicted a former chair of Amnesty International, among others, on terrorism charges.

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