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India's Enforcement Directorate just issued a show cause order to Xiaomi Technology India Ltd and three foreign banks - Citi bank, HSBC Bank and Deutsche Bank AG. An order to show cause is the type of court order that requires one or more parties to prove or disprove something to the court. In this case, it's about a Foreign Exchange Management Act violation amounting to the equivalent of $6.7 million. The actual violation is by Xiaomi, but the banks listed above received their orders as well since they have a role in…

Last year, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) delivered a stern warning to two in-house clinical researchers who had broken an important rule. They had failed to submit the results of two clinical trials they had overseen to ClinicalTrials.gov, a database meant to inform the public about human studies and their results. The reporting requirement has often been ignored, but this time the agency took an unprecedented step: It told the scientists it…

The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) on Monday said it will sanction any depot or operator supplying petroleum products to unlicensed marketers as from June. The agency disclosed this at a programme tagged ‘Stakeholders’ Engagement on Gas Utilization in Nigeria’, which held in Abuja on Monday. Speaking at the event, the Executive Director, Distribution Systems, Storage and Retailing Infrastructure, NMDPRA, Ogbugo Ukoha, said the engagement sets the objective to enlighten…

The US State Department has announced a reward of up to $10 million for information that leads to the arrest of a prolific hacker. On Monday, the Department of Justice filed criminal charges against Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a Russian national and resident with links to the infamous Hive, LockBit and Babuk ransomware gangs. Starting as early as 2020, Matveev has allegedly targeted US law enforcement and healthcare organizations on multiple occasions. In April 2021, for instance, he was linked to a Babuk ransomware attack…

Denver has issued its first fines to rental properties that have failed to get a newly required license from the city. The city fined 36 properties on Wednesday, according to Eric Escudero, spokesman for the city’s Excise and Licenses Department. A list of the properties is available here. Owners of those properties had previously been told they would be fined if they didn’t take steps to obtain a license in 45 days, Escudero said. The fine was $150. If the properties don’t obtain a license, they are poised to be fined…

The number of scammers in India is on a steep rise, and there is not a day that goes by when we do not hear about someone or a group of people being scammed. The aim of these scammers is to gain vast amounts of wealth to create a lavish lifestyle. One of the most common things that they buy with this ill-gained wealth is a luxury car or multiple luxury cars. Recently, one such scammer had his luxury car seized by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) from Bhubaneswar, Orissa. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) managed to…

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planetGet our free Climate emailLaw enforcement agencies across the country are worried that environmental thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline will inspire actual attacks on fossil fuel infrastructure.Twenty-three different state and federal agencies have sent out at least 35 missives about the movie, according to government documents obtained by Rolling Stone.“The film has potential to inspire threat actors to target oil and gas infrastructure…

International law enforcement agencies have seized a dark web marketplace popular with cybercriminals, according to a notice posted to the site on Tuesday. A banner plastered across Genesis Market's site said domains belonging to the organization had been seized by the FBI. Logos of other European, Canadian, and Australian police organizations were emblazoned across the site as well, along with that of cybersecurity firm Qintel. The FBI and Qintel did not immediately return messages seeking comment. Britain's National…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Efforts to understand the effects of immigration enforcement on crime have largely been informed by police crime statistics. In a new study, researchers used longitudinal data from the U.S. National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to assess the impact of federal immigration policies on local communities. They found that activation of two policies—the Secure Communities Program and 287(g)…

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