According to South Korean media NEWSIS, South Korean prosecutors asked the court on Thursday to extend Yoon's detention.
Regarding the SEC's indictment of Musk for alleged securities violations, Fox Business News reporter Charles Gasparino wrote that people close to the SEC revealed that this is a middle finger raised by the Democratic majority, not only against Musk, but also against Trump and his nominee for SEC chairperson Paul Atkin, in a blatant attempt to divide law enforcement and the White House with a rather minor violation.
South Korea's National Assembly Judiciary Committee passed the second version of the "Civil Unrest Special Inspection Law".
South Korea's National Assembly failed to pass the "Civil Unrest Special Prosecution Law" and the "Kim Jianchi Special Prosecution Law".
On January 8, according to the "Korea Economic Daily" report, South Korean prosecutors have added charges against a woman in her 30s for allegedly operating an illegal cryptocurrency gambling website in Thailand. The new charges include concealing the proceeds of crime and false accusations. Between April 2018 and August 2021, the website she managed received more than 24,000 bitcoins (worth $2.30 billion) from users, including Koreans. The website gambled by predicting changes in bitcoin prices...
Market news: South Korea's parliament did not have enough votes to pass the "Kim Kin-sik special inspection law" involving the wife of the South Korean president.
On December 7th, this afternoon (December 7th), the South Korean National Assembly held a plenary session to vote, and the special inspection law involved in the case of South Korean President Yoon Seok-yuk was not passed. The voting was conducted by secret ballot, and the voting results were obtained by on-site paper voting and then counting. After the vote, some lawmakers of the ruling National Power Party of South Korea withdrew to boycott the subsequent impeachment vote of Yoon Seok-yuk.
Elon Musk has amended his case against OpenAI to name Microsoft as a defendant, calling their partnership a "de facto merger" and accusing them of anti-competitive behaviour, according to BusinessInsider, which also names Microsoft board member and former OpenAI board member Reid Hoffman as a defendant.
According to market news, a New York state judge has suspended the trial of Trump's hush money criminal case at the request of prosecutors.
The Department of Justice has indicted Aleksei Andriunin, founder and CEO of crypto financial services company Gotbit, on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit market manipulation. Aleksei Andriunin, a Russian citizen living in Portugal, was arrested on October 16. Court documents show that Gotbit provided market manipulation services to create artificial trading volumes for multiple cryptocurrency companies, including those based in the United States, in order to list cryptocurrencies ...
The American Civil Liberties Union sued Iowa's top election official, Secretary of State Paul Pate, on behalf of four Iowa voters, alleging that it violated their right to vote by instructing election workers to question ballots that may have been naturalized citizens. Pate's office is understood to have previously provided county auditors with a list of 2,022 people who reported being non-citizens but then registered to vote. Since these people may have become naturalized during this time...
According to CCTV News, from January to September 2024, prosecutors across the country prosecuted 4,627 people for organizing and leading pyramid schemes. Criminals took advantage of the virtuality and convenience of the Internet to fabricate "get rich scams" with many tricks and difficult to distinguish between true and false, luring the masses to participate in them. Some took advantage of new concepts and social hotspots such as virtual currency, blockchain, financial innovation, and charity ...
After the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Cumberland, a large digital asset market maker, Cumberland responded in a post: "We will not make any changes to our business operations or assets that provide liquidity as a result of this SEC action." Previously, the SEC sued Cumberland DRW, accusing it of operating as an unregistered securities dealer.
According to Lookonchain, the US SEC, FBI, and Department of Justice have sued Gotbit and other crypto companies for alleged fraud and market manipulation. Gotbit previously claimed that they sold WATER to bring the price down to a fair level, but it sold much more tokens than it bought.
On October 8, China submitted a request to Turkey for consultations at the WTO on measures to impose tariffs and import licenses on Turkish electric vehicles and other vehicles. Turkey has imposed an additional 40% tariff on electric vehicles and other vehicles imported from China and set import license restrictions. This discriminatory measure violates WTO rules and is a typical protectionist practice. We urge Turkey to abide by its relevant commitments at the WTO and immediately correct its wr...