by Our Political Affairs Editor Among Sri Lanka’s self-proclaimed “intellectuals,” few figures have stirred as much intrigue and scepticism as Dr Ashoka Sapumal Ranwala, a prominent member of the National Executive Committee
The Delaware court’s default judgment stems from Raveendran’s refusal to cooperate with discovery efforts and repeated failures to attend hearings, according to court documents reviewed by the Financial Times. Earlier this year,
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Singapore police have carried out one of the country’s most sweeping financial crime operations in years, confiscating hundreds of millions of dollars in assets — including luxury cars, a yacht and extensive
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Former Sri Lankan Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake has raised serious concerns about the government’s planned purchase of 1,775 double cab vehicles, claiming the acquisition is being conducted outside the prescribed international tender
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Last Christmas, the tanker Yug left the Chinese port of Qingdao after offloading 2 million barrels of Iranian oil under sanctions. In the icy waters near the Arctic, another vessel carrying Russian
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A Manhattan jury has ordered BNP Paribas to pay more than $20 million in damages to three Sudanese refugees, in a landmark case examining the bank’s role in facilitating the financial operations
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On the outskirts of Manila lies a largely empty stretch of land that became the center of a financial whirlwind when Manuel Villar, the Philippines’ richest man, moved it between companies in
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Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB) Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing is facing a multimillion-pound lawsuit brought by former employees who claim that a flawed internal audit, overseen during his tenure as chief auditor, damaged
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Billionaire Gautam Adani’s attempts to resolve US fraud charges against him have stalled, prolonging a regulatory overhang that has hindered the Adani Group’s global expansion, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the
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President Javier Milei faced an angry crowd of protesters on Wednesday while campaigning in Lomas de Zamora, a suburb of Buenos Aires and a traditional Peronist stronghold. Stones, bottles, and plants were
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Indonesia has launched one of its largest corruption investigations in decades, targeting powerful oil trader Mohammad Riza Chalid in a sweeping $18 billion probe into state-owned energy giant PT Pertamina, Bloomberg reported.
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