Posts Tagged ‘fraud’
Russians rally vs Putin, election fraud (AP)
AP – Tens of thousands of Muscovites thronged to a square across the river from the Kremlin on Saturday to protest alleged electoral fraud and urge an end to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s rule, demands repeated at other rallies across this vast country in the largest public show of discontent in post-Soviet Russia.
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Big Moscow protest rally against vote fraud begins (AP)
AP – At least 15,000 people have thronged into a Moscow square to protest against alleged electoral fraud and against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party.
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Day of protest against vote fraud begins in Russia (AP)
AP – Russians angered by allegedly fraudulent parliamentary elections protested Saturday in rallies across the country, a widespread wave of anger that tests the hold on power of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his ruling party.
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Citigroup paying $285M to settle SEC fraud charges (AP)
AP – Citigroup has agreed to pay $285 million to settle civil fraud charges that it misled buyers of complex mortgage investments just as the housing market was starting to collapse.
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UBS trader ordered held over fraud allegation (AP)
AP – An alleged renegade trader accused of losing Swiss bank UBS about $2 billion in unauthorized trading was ordered held in prison custody Friday charged with fraud and false accounting.
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Panel: Widespread waste and fraud in war spending (AP)
AP – As much as $60 billion in U.S. tax dollars has been lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade due to lax oversight of contractors, poor planning and corruption, according to an independent panel.
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Afghan army salary theft shows fraud widespread (AP)
AP – The theft took just a few keystrokes — a couple of numbers changed on a spreadsheet and suddenly one soldier’s salary was dumped into another’s bank account.
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