[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Cryptocurrency platform Binance said it was the target of a $6.3 billion heist which could be the largest in history and may have been led by North Korean hackers.
The company – the world's largest crypto exchange by daily trading volumes – posted a series of sometimes contradictory messages on X, insisting that 'user funds are completely safe' but also saying it would 'cover all losses.'
Binance said late Thursday the estimated total impact was 'around $6.3 billion,' which could be one of the most significant of such security incidents on record.
It was not immediately clear the extent of the damage hackers might have been able to cause, and Binance had not explicitly confirmed that funds had been pilfered. The company said its teams were 'working around the clock' to resolve the issue.
AI-powered investigations company TRM Labs said elements of the attack resembled earlier North Korea-linked hacks.
A Binance spokesman said: 'Rest assured that user funds are completely safe.
'Our security teams are reviewing all relevant information with urgency, and we will provide updates through official Binance channels as soon as we have verified information,' the statement continued.
The company said it has worked with blockchain partners to freeze affected assets, with roughly $3 billion frozen on-chain so far.
'Binance´s initial investigation suggests that the security incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer´s laptop, which allowed an attacker to gain access to a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions,' the company wrote.
'We have found no evidence of any wallet private key leak,' it added.
Binance said it will share more technical details once the investigation is complete and when the facts are 'fully verified.'
'Our teams work closely with law enforcement, issuers, blockchain intelligence firms and industry partners to trace and freeze additional assets,' the company wrote in a separate post earlier Thursday.
Binance also said all deposits and withdrawals are temporarily suspended while it conducts security checks, freezes funds and works with law enforcement.
Stablecoin providers Tether and Circle each said they froze funds Thursday in response to the incident.
Jeremy Allaire, co-founder and CEO of Circle, wrote on X that the company had frozen the equivalent of more than $800 million in currency associated with the incident 'in coordination with law enforcement.'
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said on X that the company froze the equivalent of more than $1.5 billion in currency related to 'a potential Binance exchange hack.'
The price of bitcoin dropped 3.2 percent Thursday evening to under $79,000.
Binance was founded in 2017 by Changpeng Zhao, who in 2023 pleaded guilty to a felony related to his failure to prevent money laundering on the platform and stepped down as CEO. President Donald Trump pardoned him in 2025.
Zhao posted on X on Thursday that 'User funds are safe!' but added that the incident 'does look like a hack on Binance.' He added that while he doesn´t manage Binance anymore, 'as a shareholder, I expect all user funds will be fully covered.'
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[Regnum] Ugandan citizen Moses Muyurizi has been arrested on charges of murdering 38 people. This was reported on October 29 by the local publication The Monitor.
Republic security forces accused Muyurizi of killing and eating 38 people in the southern districts of Masaka, Ibanda and Kazo between 2010 and 2025.
"I am pleased to inform our citizens that security forces have arrested the villain Moses Muyurizi. He is the worst serial killer and cannibal in Uganda's history," the publication quotes the republic's Chief of Defence Forces, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, as saying.
The security official emphasized that Muurizi would be tried and certainly executed. He posted a photo of the handcuffed cannibal on the social media site X.
According to investigators, Muurizi worked as a hitman with accomplices.
At least his personal and professional interests are consistent…
The murder weapon was a machete.
Among the most recent confirmed incidents involving a cannibal is the murder of nine members of the Kyebe Church in the Rakai district. A week later, a family was attacked in the village of Kikamleera in the same district. 52-year-old Urita Nabasagi was killed at night in front of her two grandchildren.
Muurizi had been detained several times before, the first time in 2009. Each time, he managed to bribe the police and escape.
In 2026, DNA testing linked executed serial killer Ted Bundy to another crime—the murder of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith, which had remained unsolved for over 50 years. The link was established by comparing genetic material with evidence from another of Bundy's victims, Laura Aime. Her murder was solved in April 2026, providing a key to solving the old case. Bundy was executed in the electric chair in Florida in 1989.
[Fox News] Ghost students enrolled using stolen identities siphoned federal financial aid into offshore accounts and cryptocurrency
Federal law enforcement authorities have launched a nationwide crackdown dubbed, "Operation Ghostbusters," to dismantle an international student aid scheme that investigators estimate has been operating since 2021, "potentially reaching several hundred million dollars" in taxpayer losses.
Announcing the first wave of enforcement actions, Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald revealed that organized syndicates have systematically stolen the identities of working Americans who never applied to college, using their information to enroll fictional "ghost students" at institutions nationwide and siphon federal financial aid directly into offshore accounts.
"These are not isolated errors," McDonald said at a news conference Thursday. "This is organized fraud at scale."
The sprawling operation currently spans more than 40 open cases across 26 FBI field offices and has already produced indictments against five defendants, as well as the international seizure of more than $750,000 in laundered cryptocurrency tied to networks in Kenya.
"If successful at duping the Department of Education, Ed then sends the aid money to the college where the ghost student is enrolled," McDonald said in his opening remarks. "After tuition and fees are deducted, the leftover federal funds are deposited directly into bank accounts controlled by fraudsters, and in a flash, the money vanishes, often overseas to places like Kenya.
"The methods used in these schemes are increasingly sophisticated.
"Some use super intelligence to fill out college applications and complete coursework, so it looks like the ghost student is actually completing the class.
"Some even create the appearance of a fake student in an online classroom to trick schools into believing a real person is present. The goal is to keep the ghost student in school for as long as possible, semester after semester after semester, stealing money from the taxpayer."
Prosecutors allege that after tuition and fees were settled, leftover grant and loan disbursements were siphoned through domestic "money mules" and funneled abroad – including through fronts like a Nairobi safari company.
"We have already sent a team to Kenya to be on the ground for purposes of rooting out this fraud scheme and figuring out how it works on the ground in Kenya," McDonald said in the question and answer portion of the news conference.
And, unsuspecting victims facing ruined credit and bills for an education they never received, they warned.
"The complete story includes the plight of an American citizen who graduated high school and went straight to work to provide for his family," McDonald said. "He never applied to college, he never enrolled in classes, and he never asked for federal student aid. But one day, he finds his name attached to a loan from a school hundreds or thousands of miles away.
"His credit is now at risk and his name is on the bill."
McDonald's timeline for the investigation began in earnest in April and includes alleged fraud that began in 2021 under the Biden administration, according to McDonald.
"If you steal American identities, if you steal taxpayer dollars, if you exploit programs meant to help students build their future, we are resolved to find you and prosecute you," he said. "Whether you're in Nebraska, New Jersey, Virginia, or Nairobi, we will pursue you and bring you to justice."
Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent pinned the Biden administration on this for having taken off fraud safeguards.
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Why are the "students" getting cash? The money should be paid directly to the education institutes and if there is any refund for whatever reason, it should go directly back to the lender!
The "students" should never actually see a penny (now nickle) of the money! Their only responsibility is to pay the loan back.
[Variety] Patrick Stewart, the bald-headed English actor with impressive stage and film credits who will be remembered most for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and as Professor Charles Xavier in the “X-Men” films, died Wednesday at his Los Angeles home. He was 86.
According to a statement on his Instagram account, Stewart had a “brief” battle with Alzheimer’s and Lewy Body Dementia before his death.
#RIP Patrick Stewart of Star Trek and X Men ...
On 12-4-1997, after getting a @PressClubDC coffee mug, he was asked, "Just from a purely logical point of view, why is it that a Captain whose name is Jean-Luc Picard have a perfect English accent?"
Patrick Stewart answer here: https://t.co/0lYtwn4Hx8
To SCFI's point, I never understood that. His peers if you will took his most memorable roles, Picard and Professor X, and clowned both of them and he just nodded along. I think he had fallen apart emotionally enough to play the part in Charlie's Angels.
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Oh there was discussion about him as a person when after he decided to not be a steward of lore and instead took on a script which would drag his most well known and beloved character through a 2 season struggle session. That is, after killing his character and turning him into an android.
[FreeBeacon] Newly released data on the Harvard College class of 2030 say the class is 43.2 percent Asian-American, a record high and more than double the level when Students for Fair Admissions first sued Harvard alleging racial discrimination in admissions.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that Harvard was unlawfully using race as a factor in admissions. Since then, the numbers of Hispanic and black students in the incoming Harvard classes have dipped, while the numbers of Asian-Americans have soared.
Even the 43.2 percent figure undercounts the number of Asians on campus. It only reflects "U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents who chose to report their race/ethnicity." Some additional Asians may not box-check, and others may be foreigners, among the 15 percent of the incoming class that Harvard categorizes as "international students."
The president of Students for Fair Admissions, Edward Blum, told the Washington Free Beacon, "In 2014, the year Students for Fair Admissions sued Harvard, Asian-American students accounted for approximately 19% of its entering freshman class. Today, following the Supreme Court's 2023 decision prohibiting race-based admissions, that figure has more than doubled to 43%. This is powerful evidence that Harvard used race as a primary factor in its admission decisions for decades."
"The Supreme Court’s decision in 2023 didn't require Harvard to admit more Asian-American students or fewer whites, blacks and Hispanics. It required Harvard to stop discriminating by race. The results speak for themselves," he said. "It is important that Congress must now require colleges to fully disclose admissions data by race and academic qualifications. Only this kind of empirical transparency will reveal whether universities are truly complying with the law."
The College Admissions Accountability Act, backed by Senators Banks, Budd, and McCormick and championed in the House by Rep. David Taylor of Ohio, would create a Special Inspector General for Unlawful Discrimination in Higher Education with investigative powers. The Justice Department is suing Harvard to try to get access to data to see if Harvard is complying, but Harvard has been resisting turning over the data, using President Biden’s White House counsel, Stuart Delery, to argue the case in federal court.
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[Regnum] A magnetic storm could hit Earth on the night of October 31. This was reported on October 29 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at IKI and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP).
Between October 28 and 30, space weather will be calm: the magnetosphere will remain stable, without any sudden surges or fluctuations. However, on October 31, tension within it will increase, and a magnetic storm will begin.
However, on November 1st, it will not subside, but will continue to rage. The magnetosphere will be in a state of heightened activity. Magnetic field fluctuations will also remain noticeable, according to the laboratory's website.
On October 10, Mikhail Leus, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, reported that a cloud of solar material ejected during one of the recent solar flares had reached Earth.
Previously, experts predicted that weak and moderate magnetic storms would hit Earth on October 9. Several M-level solar flares (the second-lowest possible intensity) occurred on the Sun, two of which were recorded on October 6.
The first magnetic storm of the fall occurred on September 8th. The event was weak, classified as Category I on a five-point scale. The disturbances were associated with a plasma cloud ejected by the Sun.
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[Regnum] The Sun has ejected a solar prominence approximately half a million kilometers across. This was reported on Thursday, October 29, by the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to scientists, Earth is not in any danger. The only thing in the path of the exploding plasma would be Mars.
"An ejection from a very large prominence, approximately half a million kilometers in size, was captured today by the cameras of several space telescopes," the laboratory's Telegram channel reported.
On October 10, Mikhail Leus, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, reported that a cloud of solar material ejected during one of the recent solar flares had reached Earth.
Earlier, on October 8th, the first magnetic storm of the autumn occurred. The event was weak, classified as Category 1 on a five-point scale. The disturbances were associated with a plasma cloud ejected by the Sun.
link goes to the NWS narrative discussion at Grand Junction.
[ForecastWeatherGov] The SW has had a lot of precip from late monsoon moisture augmented by remnants of tropical storms. Some important reservoirs have recently made good recoveries, e.g., Lake Navajo in Colo/NM is up 35' since the seasonal low in late Sept. Lake Powell in UT/AZ is up 14' similarly.
The Atmospheric River (from Pacific) will likely take them up again. There is, of course, the possibility of some flooding (some places along the San Juan River received significant damage in the previous monsoon-like event), but this is mostly very good news.
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[Daily Signal] FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A new report found that the State Department, under Secretary Marco Rubio, is the most highly rated agency by American citizens who interact with the federal government for services.
While satisfaction with federal government services fell for the first time in five years, satisfaction with the State Department increased, thanks to its new online passport renewal program.
"Under Secretary Rubio’s leadership, the State Department has worked diligently to become more efficient, more effective, and more responsive to the needs of the American people," State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott told the Daily Signal.
According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index’s 2026 Federal Government Study, the State Department topped the federal departments and independent agencies during fiscal year 2026. The nearly 8,000 surveys were used to rank departments on a scale of 0-100.
"The Department of State leads all departments at 77, up 3%, on the strength of the Bureau of Consular Affairs’ online passport renewal system," the report reads.
#1
It was quickly clear he was accomplishing good things when the Liberals, Socialists and Democrat leaders and bloggers started dis'ing him all over the I-net.
So yes, it is about time, he got some well earned respect.
Basic Math says it all.
To reach 77% requires a mix of all sides to agree.
So I'm willing to bet that 77% mark isn't reached often in DC.
[FOX] The United Kingdom introduced new "respect orders" across England and Wales on Monday, giving authorities expanded powers to crack down on persistent "antisocial" behavior and drawing criticism from free speech advocates concerned about potential government overreach.
The U.K. government’s order enables police and councils to take stronger "enforcement action" against "adult offenders" of persistent "antisocial" behavior, according to a government news release.
Under the new restrictions, U.K. courts could ban offenders from town centers or prohibit them from drinking in "public hot spots" like local parks, the announcement states. Courts can impose restrictions and requirements through a civil Respect Order, while individuals who breach an order without a reasonable excuse can face criminal prosecution, including potentially unlimited fines or imprisonment.
Under the legislation governing the Respect Orders, antisocial behavior is defined as conduct that has caused, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to any person. The definition has prompted concerns from critics that the powers could be applied too broadly, although the law requires judicial approval before an order can be imposed.
"Unchecked, antisocial [behavior] blights our communities," Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said in a statement. "But it is not inevitable, and I won’t accept it. For too long, we have lacked the powers we need to deal with this problem properly. From today, that changes: authorities will be able to take tough action against these offenders.
"This delivers on a commitment we made to the British people in our manifesto," Mahmood continued. "And, most importantly, those who make life a misery for others will now face the consequences of their actions."
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Unchecked, antisocial [behavior] blights our communities," Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said in a statement. "But it is not inevitable, and I won’t accept it.
I won't accept it?
Who made you the arbiter of acceptable behavior? Your name would likely disqualify you on that front..
[NewsMax] Russian President Vladimir Putin's ambitions extend far beyond Ukraine, and his determination to rebuild Moscow's former empire could ultimately trigger a devastating war involving NATO and the United States, according to a prominent military historian.
Dr. Sarah Paine, a retired professor at the U.S. Naval War College and expert on Russian imperial history, delivered the warning during an appearance Thursday on Steven Bartlett's "The Diary Of A CEO" podcast, arguing that Putin has little incentive to abandon his military campaign and could eventually threaten other European nations.
"We're potentially barreling our way into a world war," Paine warned. "We have reckless people running some very large and important countries around the world."
Paine believes Putin's ultimate objective is not simply controlling Ukrainian territory but restoring Russia's dominance over countries once ruled by Moscow.
"I believe that Russia has unlimited objectives, that Putin wants to restore the old Soviet empire," she said.
Her assessment suggests that allowing Russia to retain Ukrainian territory would not necessarily satisfy Putin's ambitions or prevent another conflict.
"The Russians are going to come for you whether you like it or not," Paine warned when asked about Europeans who believe surrendering Ukraine could restore peace and stabilize energy prices.
She pointed to Russia's history of territorial expansion, including its military intervention in Georgia in 2008, its annexation of Crimea in 2014, and its broader efforts to exert influence over neighboring countries.
"So this is the Plan A. And then after you get Plan A, they keep on going," she explained.
Paine argued that Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was a strategic miscalculation that strengthened Ukrainian national identity, depleted Russian military resources, and left the Kremlin trapped in an increasingly costly conflict.
#4
Wanting to expand the Russian empire and being able to is two very different things.
-To the west is Nato risking even heavier military losses and a possible nuclear exchange
-To the east is China, a larger army at the end of a very long logistical supply line and a possible nuclear exchange.
-To the southeast is a bunch of countries of little value with lots of angry Muslims, but no nukes.
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Europe has purchased over $200 billion in energy from Russia since 2022.They are literally financing both sides of this war. Presumably that goes away if Russia attacks the EU itself. That, and Russia has exhausted its Soviet equipment inheritance. Try invading Poland with motorbikes. Let's see how that goes.
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She conveniently ignores NATO and EU ambitions for control of Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, etc., etc.
It's nice to read that Dr. Paine is retired. I'd hate to think she's still spouting all that bullshit to a classroom full of unsuspecting students. As a history professor, she should know that it's always the Western European countries that invade Russia and Russians only invade them to repel the aggressors.
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As a history professor, she should know that it's always the Western European countries that invade Russia and Russians only invade them to repel the aggressors.
Of course, she probably does know. She's just preaching the globalist party line.
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While nervously watching Putin toward the East; Europe was invaded from the South!
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Chiba Prefecture, located in the [Regnum] Tokyo area, the Japan Meteorological Agency press service reported
The tremors were recorded at 12:07 AM local time (6:07 PM Moscow time on October 28). According to updated data from the agency, the earthquake's epicenter was located at a depth of 52 km. Initially, the magnitude was estimated at 5.4, and the depth was approximately 50 km.
The maximum intensity of the tremor, a 5- on the Japanese scale, was recorded in the village of Yokoshibahikari. Intensities ranging from 1 to 4 were also observed from the Tohoku region to the Izu Islands.
According to preliminary data from experts, the earthquake occurred along the boundary of the Pacific and Philippine tectonic plates. There is no tsunami threat.
[AlJazeera] Hacking group Kimsuky using AI-generated documents in spear-phishing attacks, South Korean cybersecurity firm says.
North Korean state-backed hackers are using artificial intelligence to bolster cyberattacks against targets in the military, diplomacy and academia, a report has found.
Kimsuky, a hacking group linked to North Korea’s intelligence services, has used AI-generated documents in a “pattern” of spear-phishing attacks since 2026, the South Korean cybersecurity firm Genians said in the report released on Monday.
The attacks have used AI to automate the creation of malicious files disguised as legitimate documents, such as research reports and invitations, Seoul-based Genians said.
To avoid detection, Kimsuky has used open-source tools such as Ollama, GPT-4All, and Msty to run large language models without an internet connection, according to the report.
“AI can generate highly polished documents on a wide range of topics within a short period of time, making it a highly efficient tool for threat actors,” Genians said.
“This change is noteworthy because it goes beyond a shift in how decoy documents are created and demonstrates that AI can enable the automation and large-scale production of social engineering attacks.”
Kimsuky and other North Korean state-linked groups have been blamed for numerous cyberattacks in recent years, many of them aimed at extracting financial gains.
North Korean hackers stole cryptocurrency worth more than $2bn in the first nine months of 2025, according to a report by British blockchain analytics firm Elliptic.
In 2014, North Korea was identified by US authorities as the culprit in the hacking of Sony Pictures, which drew Pyongyang’s ire by lampooning North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the comedy film “The Interview”.
[FOX] Andrew Miller, a veteran electrician for J.E. Richards, tells Fox News Digital that electricians can earn while they train, avoid college debt and find steady work as data centers expand.
[Townhall] America may have seen the peak of AI data center opposition in August, with optimism about new technology and the infrastructure supporting it beginning to return. But many concerns remain, particularly over what these projects mean for local taxes and property values.
While it is easy to assume that a massive concrete building nearby can only hurt home values, and raise property taxes, the data has not borne out those supposedly "common-sense" conclusions. Instead, data centers tend to have one of two effects on nearby property values: no detectable change or a net increase, and for property taxes, have yielded downward pressure.
One homeowner in Loudoun County, Virginia, the global epicenter of data centers, offers an example of how that plays out. Despite stepping outside each morning to the sight of a data center, he said his home’s value has risen by about 67 percent since 2013 while inflation adjusted property taxes have declined by about 12 percent.
[The Hill] President Trump joked Tuesday that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) would be his pick for the next Supreme Court vacancy, saying the senator could get unanimously confirmed because lawmakers in both parties would jump at the chance to get rid of him in Congress.
During a midterm rally in Lubbock, Texas, the president praised Cruz as a "brilliant lawyer" before suggesting he had found a way around the often-contentious Supreme Court confirmation process.
"I picked three Supreme Court justices, and it's very hard to get them approved," Trump said, referring to his appointments of Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. "I said, 'Look, I have an answer to it.' Ted is a brilliant guy, brilliant lawyer, brilliant all that," he said.
Trump continued, "Went to law school, top student, everything, top credentials. I said, 'I have an answer to not being able to get it past the Democrats or the Republicans together.' I would pick Ted Cruz to be the next Supreme Court justice."
Trump predicted that in an unusual move, Democrats would "100 percent" support the nomination because "they hate the guy and they want to get rid of him."
Could Trump just be floating the Cruz name, to deflect media and LSD's attention. Thus keep them from a creating BS narrative for the real name he plans?
BREAKING: Switzerland suspends funding to Doctors Without Borders after it failed to report that its staff exploited refugee women and girls for sex—in exchange for aid, jobs and money. Previously, 🇨🇭 called MSF “a source of best practice and inspiration.” https://t.co/p8NopVkGuG
The humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is accused of failing to adequately inform the Swiss authorities of the scale of reports of sexual misconduct by MSF staff in Chad. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has now suspended funding of CHF1.25 million ($1.52 million) to MSF.
[Rudaw] Prominent Sunni politician Muthanna al-Samarrai and politicianZiyad al-Janabi received prison sentences for garnering illicit funds from oil contracts, the Federal Commission of Integrity (FCoI) said Thursday. Both were arrested in June as a part of a nationwide anti-corruption campaign initiated by Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi in late June.
Samarrai was sentenced to six years in prison "for the offense of benefiting from works and contracts," the commission’s statement read, and is "obligated" to return "the benefit amount totaling 30 billion dinars [$20 billion]."
The Sunni politician is the leader of Azm alliance, the second largest Sunni faction in the parliament after Taqadum, and is a member in the Iraqi legislature. He was arrested in late June as a part of the government’s anti-corruption drive in coordination with the FCoI.
The integrity commission stated in Thursday’s ruling that Samarrai has "exploited his oversight position" as a politician to "indirectly benefit through intermediaries from works, contracts, and procurements carried out at the [state-owned] North Refineries Company (NRC) and the South Refineries Company."
It further stated that the politician "played a role in referring contracts, purchase orders, and disbursing funds to individuals and companies linked to him through four private companies," obtaining benefits reaching the above-mentioned amount.
In another statement, the FCoI issued a ruling against Ziyad al-Janabi, a politician affiliated with Taqadum, sentencing him to five years of "severe imprisonment" after he was found guilty of "indirectly benefiting through intermediaries from contracts" with the NRC.
Janabi was also obliged to return "financial gains" and "illicit funds" from the contracts amounting to 4 billion dinars ($2.7 billion).
The politician has "interfered in awarding contracts and disbursing funds to individuals and companies connected to him in order to achieve personal financial gains," the FCoI said.
He was arrested in Erbil and subsequently handed over to federal authorities.
Both Samarrai and Janabi were convicted according to Article 319 in the Iraqi Penal Code, which addresses the utilization of public office for unlawful gains. Prison sentences under the provision could reach 10 years.
Of relevant note, both figures were arrested in relation to Adnan Jumaili’s case, the former Iraqi Deputy Minister for Refining Affairs and general director of NRC.
Jumaili was arrested in late May on charges of embezzling around 200 billion Iraqi dinars ($152 million), an investigation that uncovered a broader network of officials across state institutions and led to the seizure of millions of dollars, gold, vehicles, and real estate titles.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
