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The Supreme Court of Kenya reversed the Court of Appeal ruling on Tuesday that declared the Finance Act 2023 unconstitutional. President Ruto signed the Finance Act 2023 into law on June 26, 2023, but it was later contested for unconstitutionality in the High Court.
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French prosecutors announced Friday they referred an investigation into former French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s alleged involvement with Libyan financiers to court. Sarkozy and his twelve co-defendants will stand trial on charges such as corruption and illegal financing in 2025.
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Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov Monday, in a statement to the pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia, threatened to take legal action if the West tried to force Russia to default on its sovereign debts. Siluanov said, “We will present in court our bills confirming our efforts to pay both in foreign currency and in roubles.
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France’s highest court dismissed an appeal Tuesday from Lafarge, a French building materials manufacturer, seeking to drop charges of complicity in crimes against humanity. ” The court also dropped the charges relating to endangering the lives of its employees in violation of Article 233-I of the Criminal Code.
The Danish Eastern High Court upheld on Friday the conviction of three Iranian nationals found guilty of promoting terror and espionage, and handed down prison terms to the convicted Iranians. The Eastern High Court on January 9 confirmed the Roskilde court’s verdict, unanimously finding all three men guilty of espionage.
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He faces three charges which include participating in the activities of a terrorist group, financing a terrorist group, and spreading false news. Nonetheless, the group remains under tight scrutiny, with the courts freezing assets and subjecting EIPR staff to repeated arrests and threats.
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced on Tuesday the indictment of a woman living the Upper East Side in Manhattan, New York for using cryptocurrency to finance terrorism groups in Syria. The payments were allegedly disguised and laundered through cryptocurrency exchanges.
A French court convicted 14 people on Wednesday as the accomplices of the Islamic extremists who carried out the 2015 terrorist attacks against the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish market. Boumedienne was sentenced to 30 years in prison for belonging to a terrorist organization and financing terrorism.
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