Written by Jay Mazoomdaar | New Delhi | Updated: September 21, 2020 3:30:38 pm Wells Fargo’s SBLC unit found that none of the companies named in the application (applicant Aerocom UK, beneficiary KPH Dream Cricket, guarantor NVD Solar) were on the bank’s customer lists. The Indian Premier League, with its …
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Written by Sandeep Singh | New Delhi | Updated: September 21, 2020 6:47:07 am In SARs filed with the US financial watchdog, FinCEN, a common name across all transactions is Mauritius-based Trans Global Minerals and Metals Corporation, which, according to the SARs, is a Cyprus incorporated company in 2006 with …
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Written by Ritu Sarin | New Delhi | Updated: September 21, 2020 7:27:22 am From the steel industry to the sponsor of IPL, from diamond traders to those under ED, CBI scanner, various Indian individuals and entities have been referred in secret reports by banks to the US Treasury Financial …
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Written by Ritu Sarin, Shyamlal Yadav, Jay Mazoomdaar, Sandeep Singh, Khushboo Narayan | Mumbai, New Delhi | Updated: September 21, 2020 7:26:51 am In most cases, national branches of Indian banks have been used to receive or remit funds; in some cases, bank accounts with foreign branches of Indian banks …
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Written by Manoj CG | New Delhi | Updated: September 16, 2020 10:03:00 pm Hours earlier, Congress raised the issue of surveillance of prominent Indian personalities in both Houses of Parliament. The government today created a “Committee of Experts” under the National Cyber Security Coordinator to study revelations, as reported …
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Written by P Vaidyanathan Iyer | New Delhi | Updated: September 14, 2020 7:13:41 am On the list: Families of key politicians: Gandhis to Pawars, Scindias to Sangmas and Badals; at least 70 mayors; legislators from J&K and the Northeast. In the overseas key information database (OKIDB) developed by the …
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Written by Jay Mazoomdaar | New Delhi | Updated: September 14, 2020 1:41:47 am These include Chief of Defense Staff Bipin Rawat, at least 60 senior and retired army officers, including at least 14 former heads of the three services and scientists from the Atomic Energy Commission to the Research …
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Written by Jay Mazoomdaar, P Vaidyanathan Iyer | New Delhi | Updated: September 14, 2020 1:51:58 am Through cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns and espionage, hybrid warfare seeks to incite social discord, disrupt economic activities, undermine institutions, and discredit political leaders and the intelligentsia. Earlier this month, the Chinese-only website of Zhenhua …
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Written by P Vaidyanathan Iyer, Jay Mazoomdaar, Sheriff M of Kaunain | New Delhi | Updated: September 14, 2020 1:42:04 am Not only influential individuals in the political and official establishment, the Indians who are monitored cross disciplines. They include bureaucrats in key positions; judges; scientists and academics; journalists; actors …
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