A Dubai bank is instrumental in the long-running detention of the 71-year-old British businessman Ryan Cornelius who is serving a 30-year sentence that will keep him in jail until he is 84, his brother-in-law claims. Recent accounts show the Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB), which claims to be the trailblazer in championing Islamic values in banking, is on course to make more than $2bn in profit this year.
BANGKOK Prosecutors in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore seized hundreds of millions of dollars in assets belonging to a Cambodian businessman whom the U.S. accuses of heading a global scam syndicate. It's the latest in a string of investigations and asset seizures that began when American prosecutors charged Chen Zhi, the founder of Cambodia's Prince Holding Group, with running a large-scale cyber-scam network whose operations span countries including the U.S., the U.K. and Palau.
In July, the High Court granted Patrick Lawlor and his wife, Leonie, free legal aid to challenge Cab's case against them A convicted bagman for an organised crime gang has asked the High Court for more free legal aid in order to have a quantity surveyor value his home as he fights a Criminal Assets Bureau (Cab) bid to seize the property.
