An Indian court has found former Tehelka magazine editor Tarun Tejpal guilty of raping a former colleague, overturning his 2021 acquittal in a decade-old case. The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court said it was convicting Tejpal under sections of Indian law pertaining to rape and sexual harassment, legal website LiveLaw reported. This means…
MELBOURNE, Australia — Ralph Carr, the promoter and talent manager who guided the careers of ARIA Hall of Fame-inducted singers Kate Ceberano and Tina Arena, has been revealed as the Australian businessman recently found guilty of rape. The businessman, who has represented artists and athletes for several decades, was identified on Monday, Aug. 3 when…
A U.S. Army combat medic who fled to the United Kingdom while under investigation in 2022 was convicted by a military jury this month of desertion, larceny and making a false official statement, according to the Army Office of Special Trial Counsel. The ruling marked the end of a yearslong effort to return him to…
A federal lawmaker is pushing for a provision that would bar the Federal Bureau of Prisons from offering taxpayer-funded VIP perks to pardoned drug lords and child traffickers. Rep. Norma Torres, a California Democrat, introduced the measure last month as an amendment to a House appropriations bill, telling her colleagues that there “should never be…
After a five-day trial, a federal jury in the Southern District of Indiana convicted Sinmi Asomuyide, 33, a former Kokomo Police Department officer today of charges related to his on-duty sexual assault of a 14-year-old and related obstruction. “Police officers are entrusted with extraordinary authority and responsibility to protect the public. The defendant’s reprehensible actions…
Today a federal jury convicted a North Carolina couple, a Missouri man, and an Ohio man in relation to a scheme involving theft of union-member dues through the award of no-show jobs, lavish travels and dinners charged to the union, unearned vacation payouts, and an unauthorized $7 million loan made to a union-related bank. The…
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…
