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...Gazment Bardhi, the Albanian opposition lawmaker who submitted the constitutional court challenge, told the Financial Times his Democratic Party saw several problems with the arrangement, including a lack...
...A: British Virgin Islands “I don’t care, just please stop talking about this shit”. Which Davos 2024 attendee said this, when asked about bitcoin? A: Jamie Dimon 3....
...The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet. In court papers reviewed by the FT, the US Virgin Islands government cites flight logs showing that the plane transported underage girls....
...were controlled by Bellenhaus and based in the British Virgin Islands....
...Fahie had been lured to the airport by the promise of $700,000 in cash in a plane destined for the BVI as payment for his help in facilitating drug shipments through the BVI, according to a US court filing...
...Politicians in the British Virgin Islands have formed a national unity government in a last-ditch attempt to resist the threat of direct rule from London as fresh details emerged of how alleged drug traffickers...
...The inquiry, led by former appeal court judge Sir Gary Hickinbottom, was concerned with governance and did not examine in detail alleged collusion between top island officials and drug traffickers....
...Cox stressed in a statement that he had represented the Virgin Islands government and not Fahie as an individual....
...Sir Gary Hickinbottom, the retired appeal court judge leading the inquiry, held 55 days of public hearings last year....
...In another London case, detailed in a 2018 Court of Milan judgment, ex-Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete in 2011 faced an ex-Russian diplomat who sought $65m in the arbitration court for his role as a middleman...
...The move is regarded in diplomatic circles as a sign that the president intends to extend his 20-year rule in a new capacity when his term of office expires in 2024....
...But the company scrapped its “selective enforcement” defence after the judge presiding over the case denied its request for communications between the White House and DoJ officials about the deal....
...The FT reviewed corporate filings for the Cyprus and British Virgin Islands companies to which Midland sold its Zaporizhstal stake....
...The state department report went on to note “a lack of due process in judicial proceedings, political control of courts and judges, closed trials, the use of administrative detention, failure to protect...
...Mr Gorsuch, 49, is a federal appeals court judge in Denver who is known for his adherence to constitutional tradition and his writing ability....
...This would leave space for other expected candidates including the centrist São Paulo state governor Geraldo Alckmin and former supreme court judge Joaquim Barbosa....
...In an interview before the court ruling was announced, Max Baucus, US ambassador to China, said one of his messages to government officials in Beijing was that “we’re in a whole new chapter here . . ....
...Relatives in his village point to the spot in front of his house where he set himself alight....
...Frances Cairncross, chair of court, Heriot-Watt University As long as the economy (and the workforce) continue to expand next year, borrowing should fall in 2017....
...The practice of recontracting is at least as old as modern sovereign finance as a means to future repayment capacity, including at the court of Philip II of Spain....
...that you strain the capacity in that situation....
...It is exactly the kind of investment on which heads of state and government will be focused as they fly into the Indonesian holiday island of Bali this week for the annual summit of the 10-country Association...
...Bermuda is a leading insurance centre, while the British Virgin Islands is the global capital for incorporation of offshore companies....
...To be chaired by the retired judge Sir Peter Gibson, its purpose is to bring into the light persistent reports and allegations – as well as pending court actions from British Guantánamo detainees alleging...
...Motty: Forty Years in the Commentary Box By John Motson Virgin Books, £18.99 Strangely compelling memoir by one of the best-known sports commentators of his generation....
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