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HELSINKI (AP) — Swedish media reports say Iraq’s defense minister, who holds dual Iraqi-Swedish citizenship, is suspected of illegally receiving benefits in Sweden.

A group of illegal immigrants reported a daring restaurant robbery in King County, Washington, where “patrons were allegedly tied up, robbed of jewelry and two female members were said to be sexually assaulted.”

A former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee was sentenced Friday to 32 months in prison for tax evasion.

A female Muslim lay judge involved in an infamous court case that used Sharia law principles has been convicted of gross fraud over false employment reports.

Potentially thousands of foreign nationals living in the United States have posed as domestic abuse victims since 2014 in order to obtain a green card to permanently remain in the country, a federal report states.

 The FTC claims that dating site Match.com used fake accounts to lure almost 500,000 people to become paying subscribers on the popular dating website. The subscribers joined the company’s paid premium service within 24 hours of receiving a message from accounts the FTC claims Match had already identified as “fraudulent.”

Federal agencies must work harder to prevent Indian and Chinese college graduates fraudulently getting work visas and jobs which are needed by their U.S. counterparts, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s younger brother, James, is being accused of defrauding a Tennessee rural healthcare company. 

Following news of the recent Capital One data breach which saw over 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians left vulnerable, here are some ways to protect your personal data.

A refugee program that allowed foreign relatives of already-arrived foreign refugees to the United States was halted, altogether, more than a decade ago due to mass fraud among applicants.

A former New York City human resources worker was sentenced to two years in prison Wednesday for allegedly stealing $300,000 to put a voodoo hex on her ex-boyfriend. 

A cyber-security firm says that criminals are able to steal millions by using “deepfaked” audio to fool financial controllers into transferring them money by making them believe they are speaking to the company’s CEO.

Lawyers for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou on Monday asked Canada’s Justice Minister David Lametti to halt the process of extraditing her to the United States to face charges of bank fraud and sanctions evasion.

Police are investigating five allegations of electoral fraud during the Peterborough by-election, which The Brexit Party lost to Labour by a narrow margin of fewer than 700 votes.

A 48-year-old Miami con artist was sentenced on Friday to 18 years in prison for swindling millions of dollars from investors posing as a Saudi king.

The FCC recently issued a warning about a new phone scam being labeled the “One Ring” scam. This is how you can avoid scammers trying to rip you off if you return a missed call.

The Rochester Drug Co-operative and its former CEO Laurence Doud III were charged on Tuesday with conspiring to defraud the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) — and the rest of the country.

Two Oregon college students have been accused of tricking Apple into sending them $1 million worth of iPhones.

A Florida business owner was found guilty of conducting a multi-million-dollar food stamp fraud scheme where he exchanged bribes and other favors with daycare centers to secure catering contracts.

A vast network of British Asian gang members linked to Abu Hamza and the 7/7 bombers infiltrated government agencies, defrauded taxpayers of billions of pounds, and funnelled tens of millions to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda over 20 years, claims a Sunday Times investigation. 

Homeland Security Investigators are exposing numerous cases of visa fraud as a wave of foreigners try to sneak into Americans’ middle-class colleges and white-collar jobs.

A tip that the women’s soccer coach at Yale University offered to label an executive’s daughter as a recruit in exchange for cash led to the discovery of the largest school admissions scandal ever prosecuted, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.

An employee for the city of Washington, DC, is accused of trading $1.4 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for sex and nearly $400,000 in cash.

A Georgia mother was arrested Thursday for fabricating her five-year-old son’s illness to obtain disability checks, authorities said.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s top political adviser and confidant Gerald Butts resigned on Monday from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), claiming that allegations of political corruption levied against him by “anonymous sources” had become a “distraction” to the prime minister.

Here is a brief summary of Mitt Romney’s history of backstabbing Trump — often after seeking, and receiving, his help.

Claas Relotius – the CNN ‘Journalist of the Year’ exposed as a lying fraud – smeared small-town American Trump voters as backward, gun-toting hicks in one of his fake news articles for the German magazine Der Spiegel.

Several Bloomberg L.P. executives are expected to be arrested on Tuesday after an investigation into fraud from within the company concludes.

Canadian prosecutors say Meng lied to banks when she claimed Huawei and Sky Com were different companies.

A former Ohio nurse will spend the next two years of her life behind bars after she lied to friends and colleagues about her diagnosis of terminal lung cancer.

An Egyptian national is facing fraud charges for allegedly driving his severely autistic children off a pier at the Port of Los Angeles to collect money off of their life insurance policies, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Federal prosecutors filed no charges and ended an investigation into a Burlington College land deal supervised by Jane Sanders, the wife of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, according to a Sanders adviser.

Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes was recently assisted by two organizations financed by billionaire activist George Soros in responding to a lawsuit from a conservative group accusing her of maintaining inaccurate voter rolls.

Police have slammed the “long line of Grenfell-related frauds” as another fraudster who took advantage of the tragedy is convicted of “shamelessly” taking money intended for victims.

MADRID (AP) – Spanish police say they have busted a crime ring that cloned credit cards and was headed by a man who had previously been found guilty of helping finance the September 11th attacks in 2001.

A California state audit has found the state government paid $4 billion to provide Medi-Cal coverage for almost a half million potentially ineligible people between 2014 and 2017.