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Software developer John McAfee will be extradited to the US.
(awp / sda / dpa) Software developer John McAfee is facing prison in the US for tax evasion and unfair advertising of cryptocurrencies. Both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday (local time) that they had filed charges.
The 75-year-old man was arrested in Spain and should be extradited to the United States. According to information from the Spanish Interior Ministry in Madrid, McAfee was arrested on Saturday at Barcelona International Airport on the basis of a US arrest warrant and has been detained ever since. A ministry spokesperson did not confirm Spanish media reports that McAfee wanted to travel to Istanbul.
The US Department of Justice plans to prosecute McAfee for tax evasion and willful failure to file tax returns. The SEC accuses the antivirus software pioneer, among other things, of having recommended certain digital currencies without disclosing that he received millions for it from initiators. In this context, McAfee’s bodyguard was also charged.
Withdrawal from the company
Initially, a statement from McAfee was not available. The tax crime charge dates back to June, but has just been made public. McAfee founded the antivirus software company that bears his name, McAfee, in the 1980s, from which he retired in the 1990s.
In 2012, McAfee made headlines around the world when he was wanted for the murder of his Belizean neighbor. After an adventurous escape through the jungle, he returned to the United States and in the meantime also registered as a candidate for the 2016 presidential election. This year, McAfee initially ran again, but ended his campaign again in March.
Easy Jet reduces its fleet in Basel by two planes.
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Easy Jet plans to cut around 70 jobs at its Swiss locations in Geneva and Basel. In addition, the fleet in Basel will be reduced by two aircraft, as indicated in a statement on Tuesday.
“So far, Easy Jet Switzerland has managed to keep its workforce, but the reduction of the fleet forces us to take these painful measures,” Easy Jet Switzerland boss Jean-Marc Thévenaz told the AWP news agency.
In total, the airline employs 450 people in Basel and 570 in Geneva. A formal consultation process has been initiated with representatives of workers and unions, the company said. “We hope that the negotiations with the representatives of the staff will allow limiting the number of dismissals to be pronounced. We offer interested employees the currently vacant positions in Geneva, ”said Thévenaz.
Air traffic had collapsed since March as a result of the Covid 19 pandemic. Easy Jet does not anticipate that the 2019 market demand level can be reached again before 2023, as it continues to say. Since late summer, he has repeatedly had to adapt to new travel restrictions and quarantine regulations. That affected customers’ confidence in travel planning.
“The withdrawal of the two planes will have more impact on the frequency of connections than on the number of destinations. However, the reduction of the fleet at the international level could slow down the development of the offer ”, said the head of Switzerland.
Britain’s Easy Jet announced in late May that it could cut up to 30 percent of its workforce across the group and make changes to the network and bases across Europe.
(awp / sda / dpa) In the highly competitive market for office software and integrated communication and collaboration environments, Google is entering the ring with a new product. On Tuesday, the Internet company introduced “Google Workspace”, which is based on the previous “G-Suite” service. The new service consists of an email address and collaboration tools, including Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Chat, Drive, Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Forms, and Sites.
The main competitor is Microsoft with its Office 365 and Teams products. But Google Workspace also competes with special services like Slack, Trello or Zoom.
In July, Google had already expanded its Gmail email service and positioned it as the “New Home for Work” – that is, the new home for work. This was the first step to combine collaboration, communication and content creation on one platform and create added value for users, said Google manager Javier Soltero. This new type of collaboration is currently available to all Google Workspace business customers and will also be introduced to individuals in the coming months. “This is the end of the traditional office as we know it,” Soltero said.
With its cloud offerings, Google is trying to break out of its dependence on the advertising market, which has so far accounted for most of the revenue. Customers must sign up for a subscription with Google Workspace that starts at € 4.68 per employee per month. With a cloud storage space larger than two terabytes, the subscription costs 9.36 euros per user per month.
(dpa) The Court of Justice of the European Union has rejected claims for damages from an Iranian bank that was affected by EU sanctions against the Iranian nuclear program. Top EU judges upheld a 2018 ruling from the EU court (Case C-134/19) on Tuesday.
The EU Council had included Refah Kargaran bank on a sanctions list for participating in the nuclear program, freezing funds and resources in 2010 and 2011. The bank obtained that these measures were declared null and void for lack of justification. In 2013 he returned to the list with a new reason. But in 2015 the bank sued the EU for damages due to the measures that had been declared null and void.
The EU court rejected the claim for damages in 2018, and the ECJ has ultimately upheld this decision. However, at one point, the top EU judges reprimanded their lower-level colleagues: they had wrongly found that they were not responsible for a certain aspect of the damages claim, namely for possible foreign policy and foreign policy damages. common security. The Court of Justice considered that this was a legal error. However, he completely rejected the bank’s appeal.
