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Pakistan's Senate on Thursday passed a bill to amend the Pakistan Army Act, 1952 which proposes up to five years in jail for anyone who discloses sensitive information about the country's security and army. Defence Minister Khawaja Asif moved the bill titled «Pakistan Army (Amendment) Act, 2023» amidst the government's efforts to prosecute former prime minister Imran Khan on the 'cypher' issue.

Reuters. While hearing in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors asked US District Judge Lewis Kaplan to detail Bankam-Fried now. They said that he had crossed a line by sharing his former romantic partner Caroline Ellison's personal writings with a reporter.

Rajendra Gudha said Tuesday as he stepped up his campaign against the «misdeeds» of members of the Ashok Gehlot ministry in Rajasthan. Gudha took out a «camel yatra» in his Udaipurwati assembly constituency in Jhunjhunu district, a day after he was suspended from the state assembly where he had triggered a ruckus over a «red diary». The ex-minister, who was pushed and shoved by fellow Congress MLAs in the House when he struck Parliamentary Affair Minister Shanti Dhariwal's microphone, has alleged the diary hold details of irregular financial transactions that damn state's ministers. Chief Minister Gehlot sacked Gudha last week after he criticised his own government in the assembly over crime against women, when the violence in BJP-run Manipur was being discussed. In Udaipurwati, Gudha repeated his suggestion made in a PTI interview earlier to conduct a narco test on all Rajasthan ministers. «It will be known then that rapists are sitting in our government,» he told reporters during the yatra. «Send me to prison or shoot me, I will continue to fight for the security of sisters and daughters of the state till my last breath,» he said.

WhatsApp user, the Bombay High Court has urged them to exercise a sense of responsibility and caution while communicating on the platform. The Nagpur bench of the court made this observation while dealing with a case involving a man accused of posting content that allegedly promoted hatred against a religious group. In a ruling on July 12, a division bench of Justices Vinay Joshi and Valmiki SA Menezes emphasized that WhatsApp status is meant to convey messages to a user's contacts.

Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan to two years imprisonment in a case of provocative speech during the 2019 general elections. Judge Shobhit Bansal convicted Khan and sentenced him to two years imprisonment.

Lucknow, a manager's plan to steal Rs 22.13 lakh from the store's cash room was thwarted by an unexpected detail: his choice of footwear. The theft was caught after senior managers reported the theft to police, leading to an investigation and subsequent apprehension of all 36 employees for questioning. During investigation, police shifted the focus towards an insider due to the absence of any external access to the cash room.DCP Vineet Jaiswal, in charge of the South Zone, stated ANI that during the thorough interrogation of the employees, suspicions arose surrounding the floor manager, Dileep, after numerous colleagues pointed out Veer Shankar's incriminating remarks.

health care. The claims helped the company become a Silicon Valley sensation that raised nearly $1 billion from investors and at one point anointed Holmes with a $4.5 billion fortune, based on her 50% stake in Theranos. (With agency inputs)

Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another incarcerated person at a federal prison in Florida.

BJP MP has moved a private member's bill for prohibition of fake news, which proposes imprisonment of up to seven years or fine of up to ₹10 lakh or both. At a time when there is a surge in fake news on social media, BJP MP Manoj Kotak, in his private member's bill titled 'Prohibition of Fake News on Social Media Bill, 2023', proposes to set up a social media regulatory authority comprising an MP each from both Houses of Parliament for prohibition of fake news.

Mack, once known for her role in the popular TV series Smallville, found herself in the midst of public controversy and scrutiny after her association with the infamous cult group Nxivm. After serving two years of her three-year prison sentence, her release prompts reflection on her journey from the entertainment industry to incarceration, while exploring the events that led to her downfall. Born on July 29, 1982, in Preetz, Germany, Mack began her acting career at a young age, showing promise and talent.

Rewari: A court here sentenced two men to seven years' imprisonment for robbing four pairs of shoes from a shop owner at gunpoint two years ago. The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Dr Sunil Kumar Garg also imposed a fine of ₹41,000 on both convicts.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office last week charged a recidivist fraudster experienced in real estate scams with yet another Ponzi scheme. Wilson Baston of Brooklyn allegedly used an investment fund to claim he was deploying investor money to fund real estate transactions in New York.

Mann on Sunday said his government will recover the Rs 55 lakh spent on keeping gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in Rupnagar jail during the previous Congress government from former chief minister Amarinder Singh and jail minister Sukhjinder Randhawa. If the money is not paid by Singh, who is now a BJP leader, and Randhawa, a Congress MLA, then their pension and other facilities will be cancelled, Mann said. Ansari was in Rupnagar jail from January 2019 to April 2021 in an extortion case registered in Mohali before the Supreme Court directed the Punjab government to give custody of the gangster-turned-politician to Uttar Pradesh Police.

Moroccan courts have upheld an 18-month prison sentence handed down to a 21-year-old French citizen for "fraud" and "illegal use of cryptocurrency".

Do Kwon, currently in custody in Montenegro and potentially awaiting extradition to the United States or South Korea, will reportedly face harsh conditions in the country’s penal system.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faced new fraud charges on Thursday, as prosecutors accused him of cheating thousands of investors out of billions of dollars while casting himself as a trustworthy "saviour of the cryptocurrency industry".

Tornado Cash developer Alexsey Pertsev remains in jail after facing money laundering charges for creating the mixing service, but a recent tweet by Ameen Soleimani, the co-founder of SpankChain and Reflex Labs, suggests the crypto mixing service could soon have its comeback despite the legal woes of its developer.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the man behind the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, is facing increasing scrutiny from a federal judge over his use of electronic devices while out on bail.

Newly proposed advertising rules in the United Kingdom could potentially see executives of crypto firms face up to two years of prison for failing to meet certain requirements around promotion, according to the U.K. financial watchdog. 

The CEO of a bogus South Korean crypto exchange that tricked some 50,000 customers out of a total of $2.3 billion will spend the next 25 years behind bars – after the Supreme Court found him guilty of fraud.

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has pled not guilty to all criminal charges he’s facing, including wire fraud, securities fraud and violations of campaign finance laws. In total, the entrepreneur faces eight criminal counts, which could result in 115 years in prison should he be convicted. Meanwhile, Daniel Friedberg, the controversial lawyer who served as top compliance chief at FTX, has reportedly cooperated with prosecutors and provided them with his knowledge of SBF’s use of customer funds to finance his illegal business scheme.