Scams, corruption, financial crime
A US tax filing shows Gianni Infantino was paid $1.72 million by FWC2026, the FIFA-owned company running the 2026 World Cup, on top of his declared salary. FIFA's own rules require the president's individual compensation to be made public, and a former governance chief says the omission is a clear breach.
The New York attorney general secured the lifetime ban alongside up to $35 million in conditional payments. Mashinsky is already serving a 12-year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to securities and commodities fraud.
Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun admitted to helping route restricted Nvidia A100 and H100 servers through Southeast Asian intermediaries to conceal Chinese end customers. A co-founder of Super Micro has denied the charge; a third defendant remains a fugitive.
Recruits were promised civilian jobs in security or construction, then forced into military service. Kenya says 84 of its nationals involved in the conflict are dead or missing.
Syndicates based largely in Cambodia and Myanmar have expanded from Chinese-speaking targets to victims worldwide. More than 80 nationalities have been found among people trapped in scam-centre operations.
ZachXBT posed as a paying client inside a Chinese crime syndicate after the $1.5 billion Bybit hack. His undercover operation traced more than $12 million in stolen funds, and Tether froze $442,000 linked to the cluster he identified.
Greg Lui, owner of Earthmade Computer Inc., allegedly used false documents and routed shipments through Malaysia and Singapore to conceal China as the true destination. Prosecutors say the scheme ran between 2023 and 2024 and are seeking to keep him in custody pending trial.
The designation bars US banks from making transfers involving A7's foreign shell companies. Iran's Revolutionary Guard and central bank were also found to have used the network's services.
The group, which calls itself iamnotavillain, obtained data on around 680 customers by sending fraudulent requests through a compromised Italian government email system. It has threatened to sell identity documents and financial records unless Revolut pays in cryptocurrency within 24 hours.
David Rush, 49, is accused of claiming military leave pay years after his Navy discharge, and of faking his degrees and résumé. Prosecutors say the 303 gold bars found at his home — which he called work expenses — are a separate matter, though he was not supposed to have them there.
Prosecutors allege a 20-year scheme to steal confidential technology from US rivals and the use of a shell company to route more than $100 million through US banks in violation of Iran sanctions. The trial is expected to last three months and runs alongside scheduled US-China talks at the highest level.
US prosecutors accuse the Chinese tech giant of running an organised crime operation to steal trade secrets, defraud banks and evade sanctions. A conviction could result in one of the largest corporate criminal fines in US history.
The federal government alleges 3M knew from the 1970s that its firefighting foam was toxic and persistent — yet kept telling Australian officials it was safe. The claim cites 310 internal company documents across more than 1,600 pages of Federal Court filings.
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