Masood Farivar is a Senior Analyst in VOA’s South and Central Asia Division.
TRACE International, which helps businesses comply with anti-graft laws, says US officials brought 11 enforcement actions in 2022, up from eight in 2021, after years of declining enforcement
Prosecutors say Ho Wan Kwok bilked hundreds of thousands of followers out of a total of more than $1 billion
Up 31% from the previous year, 10,840 incidents of hate crime were reported in 2021, according to updated report
Anti-Defamation League recorded 6,751 white supremacist propaganda incidents last year
In 2021, bureau ran about 3.4 million queries of Americans' data collected under the Section 702 surveillance program
Biden administration is equally concerned that targeted entities, individuals are increasingly adept at skirting the sanctions
Merrick Garland calls Russian mercenary group's founder a 'war criminal'
Officials say the program under Section 702 of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is critical to US national security
One year in, Task Force KleptoCapture has seized hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of illicit Russian assets
Case stems from indictment of business associate of Viktor Vekselberg, who is accused of helping to manage real estate in US that Vekselberg owned, while he was under sanctions
Ukraine has pursued legal action against Moscow since 2014 without success. Is this time different?
The US arrested and charged 11 suspects linked to the plot
State Department says equipment found on downed balloon ‘clearly for intelligence surveillance,’ not for collecting weather data
Vladimir Voronchenko is accused of helping to maintain four properties owned by Viktor Vekselberg in New York, Southampton and Florida
In 2022, more than 3,000 victims, mostly boys, were targeted by sextortion schemes
Center will be embedded with joint investigative team created last year
Berlin-based Transparency International also says five traditionally top-scoring countries saw a significant decline in their assessments
Justice Department says suspects are members of Eastern European criminal gang with ties to Iran and plotted to murder VOA Persian host Masih Alinejad
Takedown follows monthslong infiltration of Hive network by FBI
Charles McGonigal is one of the most senior former FBI officials indicted in recent years
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