Authorities are "hunting down" directors who defrauded COVID-19 financial support schemes, law firm Pinsent Masons LLP said on Monday, after government figures showed that almost 180 people have been banned from running companies for abusing the programs.
A London judge has ordered the former director of a Bulgarian cryptocurrency company to send it approximately £10 million ($12.1 million) in crypto-assets before he starts receiving a $1 million settlement over an account opened at the business.
A London judge agreed Friday to let a group of Yukos Oil investors present legal documents to the Russian Federation directly after White & Case LLP stopped representing the country in its dispute over $57 billion worth of arbitral awards.
The EU said Monday it will extend its sanctions against Russia for the 2014 annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol until June 2023 after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine faces "greater hostile activity" from Russia as war continues to rip through the country.
A major U.K. trade union has said that it will take a Tallinn, Estonia-headquartered ride-hailing company to court for treating its drivers as self-employed rather than full employees, denying them protections, including minimum wage and pensions.