A British jury on Friday found James Holder, a co-founder of the Superdry fashion brand, guilty of raping a woman in 2022. Mr. Holder, 54, had risen to fame by 2010 as the streetwear brand went from ambitious British company to global chain, its products sported by celebrities. The jury convicted him of rape after…
A German court has convicted the former co-owner of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca — the subject of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ Panama Papers investigation — for aiding and abetting tax evasion. Cologne’s regional court sentenced Christoph Zollinger, a Swiss-Panamanian dual national, to one year and nine months’ probation, according to ICIJ’s German…
Shorouk Express Spain’s political divisions have widened after the country’s top prosecutor was convicted of leaking confidential information against the conservative opposition. How was the verdict received? The Supreme Court released its verdict against Álvaro García Ortiz on Thursday, with the legal reasoning of its decision to be published later. Five of the seven judges…
Shorouk Express Disgraced former Spanish football federation (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales had eggs flung at him allegedly by his uncle during the presentation of his new book on Thursday in Madrid. Rubiales, convicted of sexual assault for a forced kiss on player Jenni Hermoso, appeared to be struck on the back by an egg as…
Shorouk Express Peter Kažimír, governor of the Slovakian central bank and a close ally of Prime Minister Robert Fico, was convicted of bribery on Thursday and fined €200,000. Kažimír had been charged with offering €48,000 in 2016 to František Imrecz, the former president of Slovakia’s Financial Administration, to speed up tax proceedings for companies owned…
Shorouk Express According to the prosecutors, the members of the group carried out surveillance of journalists, in particular Bulgarian investigative reporter Christo Grozev, who exposed the spies responsible for poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal. The ring also spied on Ukrainian soldiers training at a U.S. military base in Germany, in order to locate them when…
Shorouk Express Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email The federal judge who tried members of the Oath Keepers far-right militia group on seditious conspiracy charges wants to keep them out of…
[This story previously aired on Dec. 18, 2021. It was updated on Dec. 21, 2024.] In 2004, Scott Peterson was convicted and later sentenced to dying for killing his pregnant spouse Laci and dumping her physique within the San Francisco Bay. There was a twist within the case. In 2020, California’s highest courtroom overturned Peterson’s…
