By Maria Ward-Brennan The UK’s legal regulator has contacted more than 1,000 law firms that it deemed to have poor sanctions compliance systems in place. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) gathered data from a number of law firms last year on th…
Men hand over bitcoins worth €2 billion to German police
A total of 50,000 bitcoins have been provisionally seized during investigations in the eastern German state of Saxony in what is believed to have been the biggest seizure of its kind to date in Germany. The bitcoins were worth around €2 billion ($2.17 …
Survey finds growing uncertainty in Germany, especially in the East
Germans feel far more unsettled now than they did just two years ago, according to a new nationwide survey that also revealed significant differences between residents of the former East Germany and those in the former West. About 61% of the German pop…
German economy shrank by 0.3% in final quarter of 2023
The German economy shrank in the fourth quarter of 2023, with gross domestic product (GDP) falling by 0.3% compared to the previous quarter, according to preliminary government data released on Tuesday. The figure was adjusted for price, calendar and s…
US take Olympic gold, Russia bronze after Valieva doping ban
The United States were declared figure skating champions at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, while Russia remained on the podium in third after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision on the doping case of teen-aged Russian figure skater Kamila Val…
EPL: ‘I feel sad’ – Chris Sutton names three players to follow Klopp out of Liverpool
Former Chelsea star, Chris Sutton has tipped Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Andrew Robertson to follow manager Jurgen Klopp out of Liverpool at the end of the season. Klopp had last Friday announced his decision to step down as Liverpool coach afte…
Michelle Mone’s husband accused of playing key role in multi-million tax evasion scam
By Nick Sommerlad Businessman Doug Barrowman has arrived at his trial in Spain this morning on charges including corporate tax evasion. There was no sign of his wife Baroness Mone at the court in Santander on the first day of a five-day trial which cou…
Spirits giant Diageo fails to cheer investors in first half
By Emma Rumney LONDON (Reuters) -Shares in Diageo, the world’s top spirits maker, fell more than 4% on Tuesday after it warned of further troubles in Latin America, adding to investor concerns a build up of unsold stock in the region would be hard to c…
Man ‘told stomach pain was gallstones’ dies from cancer four months after wedding
By Abigail Nicholson & Tim Hanlon A man died just four months after getting married when stomach pain he believed to be gallstones turned out to be pancreaticcancer. Matthew Scotland, 39, from Liverpool, first went to the hospital in 2018 due to the se…
韓国から中国へ… 15億円相当のアメリカ製チップが密輸されていたことが判明
韓国から中国へ15億円相当のアメリカ製チップが密輸されていたことが判明 記事によると… ・アメリカ製半導体の輸出が厳しく制限されている中国に9万6000個もの半導体を密輸したとして、韓国政府が国内の企業を起訴しました。調べによると、139億……