Compliance

IT bod flings £1m sueball at Met Police for wrongly listing him as a convicted fraudster London cops claim he’s got his databases mixed up

A financial IT worker is suing London’s Metropolitan Police for £1m after claiming the force recorded an identity fraudster’s criminal conviction against his name. Adekunle “Femi” Adenuga claims police workers wrongly recorded on the Police National Computer (PNC) that he had been convicted of fraud, causing him to lose out on job opportunities during the

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INVESTIGATION Audit report indicts NPA MD, Hadiza Bala-Usman of N20bn contract fraud

These are not the best of times for the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala-Usman, as an audit report conducted by the Auditor-General’s office has allegedly indicted the her for various questionable transactions. Part of the recommendations include that the Bala-Usman-led NPA should refund about N5.18 billion to the Federation Account for

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GP, 52, could face the sack for ‘discrimination’ after ‘telling Muslim woman to remove veil during visit because he could not hear her explain what was wrong with her child’

Dr Keith Wolverson, 52, could face sack over claims of ‘discrimination’ He allegedly told Muslim woman to ‘remove veil or he would stop appointment’  But the GP claims he couldn’t hear her and merely politely asked her to take it off Family informed the GMC and he could be struck off if he is found

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Missing millions, the ‘lying’ Mr Levick & the Banksy artwork

Martin Levick, the former CEO of investment house Genesis Capital, is facing criminal and civil legal action amidst allegations of fraud. (Supplied) Martin Levick, the former CEO of investment house Genesis Capital, has been provisionally sequestrated and is facing criminal and civil legal action amidst allegations of fraud. Levick, who was known as an innovator

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He is stable but we are ‘very worried’ – brother of security guard run over by bakkie in Stellenbosch

The security guard who was recently run over by a vehicle in a parking area while directing traffic is in a stable condition, but only time will reveal the extent of his injuries, his family has said. After a video emerged of Mzwanele Wellem, 39, being run over by a motorist at a shopping complex

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Widespread calls from Sierra Leone a scam to get you to call back, authorities warn

Tulsa World staffers received dozens of calls from Sierra Leone phone numbers, some listed as originating from the U.S., that are said to be part of a call-back scam.  Recent calls from Sierra Leone to people in the Tulsa area and around the state are reportedly scams. The Sand Springs Police Department put out a

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Watch the rise and fall of the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world

Cape Town – In 2004, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford at 19 to start a company that was going to revolutionise healthcare. In 2014, Theranos was valued at $9bn, making Holmes, who was touted as ‘the next Steve Jobs’, and the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Just two years later, Theranos was

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Russian ‘identity fraud’ athlete handed 12-year drugs ban

Paris – A Russian athlete who infamously used the identity of a friend to circumnavigate her country’s state-sponsored doping suspension was on Wednesday handed a 12-year ban, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced. Kseniya Savina, 29, underwent an out-of-competition control in Ifrane, Morocco, on May 15, 2018 with banned blood booster EPO detected in her

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