Four alleged members of an international organized crime group committing identity theft and credit card fraud across the United States are in custody after setting up shop in a Bensalem motel, police said.
They were caught after a Michigan man complained that a motel room at the Comfort Inn on the 2700 block of Lincoln Highway was rented using his credit card number without his authorization, according to Bensalem police.
WASHINGTON — IRS investigators believe the identity thieves who stole the personal tax information of more than 100,000 taxpayers from an IRS website are part of a sophisticated criminal operation based in Russia, two officials told the Associated Press.
The information was stolen as part of an elaborate scheme to claim fraudulent tax refunds, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told reporters. Koskinen declined to say where the crime originated.
But two officials briefed on the matter said Wednesday the IRS believes the criminals were in Russia, based on computer data about who accessed the information. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the ongoing criminal investigation.
KUALA LUMPUR: Authorities have arrested 12 police officers suspected to be linked to human trafficking activities.
Deputy Home Minister Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Jaafar (pix) said today the possibility of them being connected to the mass graves found in Perlis is also being investigated.
Four of the officers were arrested by the police themselves while the other eight were picked up by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) in three separate anti-human trafficking operations, dubbed “Ops Pintas”.
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The corruption charges against FIFA officials leave those who follow soccer closely stunned on Wednesday morning.
Soccer fans have long expressed their concerns with how FIFA operates. But actual arrests and charges, CBS 3 soccer expert Kevin Kinkead says, are surprising.
“This is unprecedented,” says Kinkead. “I can’t make any kind of comparison to American sports.”
FIFA controls everything soccer, Kinkead says, and it has never been challenged by a government like this.
SAO PAULO, May 27 — A Brazilian judge sentenced a former international director at state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA to five years in prison for money laundering yesterday, the second company executive convicted in an ongoing corruption probe.
Federal Judge Sergio Moro said there was ample evidence that the former director, Nestor Cervero, set up a front company to launder money. He also used illicit money to buy a luxury apartment in Rio de Janeiro, the judge said.
Cervero was fired from Petrobras, as the company is known, in 2014 and arrested in January as he stepped off a plane from Europe. He is also suspected of receiving bribes in exchange for awarding drilling ship contracts.
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A southwest suburban pharmacist has been indicted in a $2.4 million fraud scheme that involved bogus insurance claims, identity theft, swapping out prescription drugs for supplements, and selling counterfeit Viagra, federal authorities said Tuesday.
Until the IRS discovered this latest data leak, its website provided a service called “Get Transcript.” It’s an easy way to download several years of tax forms for tasks like applying for a mortgage, or college financial aid.
Russia’s federal space industry has been beset by corruption, “moral decay” and billions of dollars worth of financial violations, according to government officials.
An investigation by Russia’s public spending watchdog agency revealed that in 2014 alone 92 billion rubles ($1.8bn, £1.2bn) was misused by the Roscosmos space agency.
“At first I could not believe my inspectors,” Tatyana Golikova, head of the watchdog agency, said on Friday (22 May).
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has said that the Roscosmos agency will be abolished and replaced by a state corporation in the second half of 2015.
Rogozin blamed the financial mismanagement of the Roscosmos agency for a string of spacecraft accidents since 2010.
KUALA LUMPUR: Mass graves believed to contain bodies of hundreds of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh have been found in Malaysia, media reported said on Sunday.
Police discovered 30 large graves containing the remains of hundreds of people in two places in the northern state of Perlis, which borders Thailand, the Utusan Malaysia newspaper reported.
SALT LAKE CITY – Prosecutors filed a new felony charge against former Utah Attorney General John Swallow Wednesday, just over two weeks ahead of a hearing that will determine if his case will proceed to trial.
The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office filed a second-degree felony money-laundering charge against Swallow, while also dropping a misdemeanor charge of failing to disclose conflict of interest.