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Videocon case: CBI to produce Chanda Kochhar, husband at Mumbai spl court

The CBI will produce ICICI Bank's former CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar at a Mumbai Special Court Saturday afternoon in connection with alleged cheating and irregularities in loans sanctioned by the bank to Videocon Group companies, officials said. The agency will seek a police remand of both accused to interrogate them in connection with the case, they said. A team of CBI officials is accompanying the couple on a flight to Mumbai this morning, the officials said. The Kochhars were called to the agency headquarters on Friday and arrested after a brief questioning session. The CBI has alleged that they were evasive in their responses and did not cooperate in the investigation. Sources said the agency is likely to move at a swift pace to file the first charge sheet in the case, in which the Kochhars could be named along with Venugopal Dhoot of Videocon Group. The CBI had named the Kochhars and Dhoot, along with companies Nupower Renewables (NRL) managed by

CBI, Delhi Police help FBI in busting multimillion-dollar tech support scam

The Delhi Police and Central Bureau of Investigations have helped the FBI in busting a major trans-national scam that duped thousands of Americans, mostly senior citizens, of millions of dollars in about 10 years on the pretext of providing them with tech-support, a US attorney has said. Harshad Madaan, 34, from New Delhi and Vikash Gupta, 33, from Faridabad, were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Delhi Police this week. The third Indian Gagan Lamba, 41, from New Delhi remains at large. Gagan's brother Jatin Lamba is also in police custody. All are charged by indictment with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit computer fraud, and substantive violations of wire fraud and computer fraud. US Attorney Philip R Sellinger, in a statement, thanked CBI and the Delhi Police for their assistance in busting this trans-national tech support scam. Indian-American, Meghana Kumar, 50, pleaded guilty to the charges this week. Jayant Bhatia, 33, of Ont

Hacker claims breach of FBI's critical-infrastructure forum, posts samples

A hacker who reportedly posed as the CEO of a financial institution claims to have obtained access to the more than 80,000-member database of InfraGard, an FBI-run outreach program that shares sensitive information on national security and cybersecurity threats with public officials and private sector individuals who run U.S. critical infrastructure. The hacker posted samples they said were from the database to an online forum popular with cybercriminals last weekend and said they were asking $50,000 for the entire database. The hacker obtained access to InfraGard by posing as the CEO of a financial institution, they told independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, who broke the story. They called the vetting process surprisingly lax. The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press. Krebs reported that the agency told him at was aware of a potential false account and was looking into the matter. InfraGard's members include business leade

Hoover: Bravery and black bag jobs

As the Yale historian Beverly Gage makes abundantly clear in G-Man, her revelatory new biography of Hoover, all of this is true

US court seems skeptical of Donald Trump's claims in Mar-a-Lago search case

A federal appeals court appeared deeply skeptical Tuesday that former President Donald Trump was entitled to challenge an FBI search of his Florida estate or to have an independent arbiter review documents that were seized from the home. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, including two Trump appointees, repeatedly suggested Trump was seeking special treatment in asking that the "special master" conduct an independent inspection of records taken in the August 8 search of Mar-a-Lago. "Other than the fact that this involves a former president, everything else about this is indistinguishable from any pre-indictment search warrant," said William Pryor, the court's chief judge, a George W. Bush appointee. He added: "We've got to be concerned about the precedent that we would create that would allow any target of a federal criminal investigation to go into a district court and to have a district court entertain this kind of petition ... and interfere with

China continues to 'lie, cheat, and steal' to dominate tech: FBI Director

Calling out the Chinese government's disregard for the rule of law, fair business practices, FBI Director Christopher Wray said China continues to 'lie, cheat, and steal' in a bid for tech dominance

US Justice department asks court to deny Trump plea over FBI search

The Biden administration on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to steer clear of a legal fight over classified documents seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Florida estate. The high court is weighing an emergency appeal from Trump asking it to overturn a lower court ruling and permit an independent arbiter, or special master, to review the roughly 100 documents with classified markings that were taken in the August 8 search of Mar-a-Lago. The Justice Department said in a 32-page filing that Trump's claim has no merit, noting the case involves extraordinarily sensitive government records. A three-judge panel from the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit last month limited the special master's review to the much larger tranche of non-classified documents. The judges, including two Trump appointees, sided with the Justice Department, which had argued there was no legal basis for the special master to conduct his own review of the classified

Trump team aims at records probe at his Florida home; calls it 'misguided'

A criminal investigation into the presence of top-secret information at former President Donald Trump's Florida home has spiralled out of control," his lawyers said Monday in urging a judge to leave in place a directive that temporarily halted core aspects of the Justice Department's probe. The Trump team also referred to the documents that were seized as purported classified records, suggesting his lawyers do not concede the Justice Department's contention that highly sensitive, top-secret documents were found by the FBI in its Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago. The lawyers also asserted that there is no evidence any of the records were ever disclosed to anyone, and that at least some of the documents belong to him and not to the Justice Department. The 21-page filing underscores the significant factual and legal disagreements between lawyers for Trump and the U.S. government as the Justice Department looks to move forward with its criminal investigation into the illegal retention of ...

Trump documents probe: US Justice Dept is appealing special master ruling

The Justice Department has said it was appealing a judge's decision granting the appointment of an independent arbiter to review records seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Florida home. The department on Thursday also asked US District Judge Aileen Cannon to put on hold her directive prohibiting it from using the seized records for investigative purposes while it contests her ruling to a federal appeals court. Law enforcement officials said they would suffer irreparable harm if Cannon's directive remained in place, noting that uncertainty about the boundaries of the judge's order had led the intelligence community to temporarily halt a damage assessment of the classified records taken from Mar-a-Lago. Moreover, the government and the public are irreparably injured when a criminal investigation of matters involving risks to national security is enjoined, the Justice Department motion stated. US District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday granted the Trump team's reque

Judge grants Trump bid for special master to review documents seized by FBI

A federal judge on Monday granted a request by former President Donald Trump's legal team to appoint a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home last month and also temporarily halted the Justice Department's use of the records for investigative purposes. The decision by US District Judge Aileen Cannon came despite the objections of the Justice Department, which said an outside legal expert was not necessary in part because officials had already completed their review of potentially privileged documents. The judge had previously signaled her inclination to approve a special master, asking a department lawyer during arguments this month, What is the harm? The appointment is likely to slow the pace of the department's investigation into the presence of top-secret information at Mar-a-Lago given the judge's directive that the Justice Department may not for the moment use any of the seized materials for investigative purposes. But it is not clear that it

Donald Trump breathes fire on Biden, calls FBI and DoJ 'vicious monsters'

He was speaking at a huge election rally in Wilkes-Barre, Penn, in support of Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz and gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano

Trump calls Biden 'enemy of state' during 1st rally since Mar-a-Lago search

Donald Trump has lashed out at his successor Joe Biden by branding him an "enemy of the state" at his first rally since the FBI searched the former US president's Florida estate for sensitive classified files. Trump hit back at President Biden's assertion last week in Philadelphia that the former leader and his die-hard Republican supporters are undermining American democracy. Biden in his address outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Thursday night said: This is a nation that rejects violence as a political tool. We are still, at our core, a democracy. Yet history tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and the willingness to engage in political violence is fatal in a democracy. Trump, 76, slammed Biden's remarks as the "most vicious, hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an American president". "He's an enemy of the state. You want to know the truth. The enemy of the state is him," Trump said on Saturday. "There can be no more vivid example of the very real

What the FBI found at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, by the numbers

Taken together, the government's court filings since the Aug. 8 search show that the FBI and other federal officials have retrieved 325 documents with classified markings from Mar-a-Lago

Trump accuses justice dept of criminalising his possession of records

Donald Trump's lawyers made the broad argument that the Presidential Records Act allows a president to take whatever document he wants

FBI's team to investigate massive cyberattack on Montenegro govt services

A rapid deployment team of FBI cyber experts is heading to Montenegro to investigate a massive, coordinated attack on the tiny Balkan nation's government and its services, the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs announced Wednesday. This is another confirmation of the excellent cooperation between the United States of America and Montenegro and a proof that we can count on their support in any situation, the ministry said. Montenegro's Agency for National Security blamed the attack, which began late last week, squarely on Russia, though without providing evidence. A combination of ransomware and distributed denial-of-service attacks, the onslaught disrupted government services and prompted the country's electrical utility to switch to manual control. A cybercriminal extortion gang claimed responsibility for at least part of the attack, infecting a parliamentary office with ransomware known as Cuba, which the cybersecurity firm Profero has found to include Russian speakers. ...

US says it has reviewed documents seized from Trump in Mar-a-Lago search

The Justice Department has completed its review of potentially privileged documents seized from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate this month and has identified a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information, according to a court filing on Monday. The filing from the department follows a judge's weekend order indicating that she was inclined to grant the Trump legal team's request for a special master to review the seized documents and to set aside any that may be covered by claims of legal privilege. A hearing is set for Thursday in federal court in Florida. The Justice Department said in its filing that it would disclose more information later this week.

Donald Trump may get a 'special master' review of documents seized by FBI

Federal agents are investigating missing White House records left with 20 boxes of documents, including 11 sets of classified material

Trump mixed top secret documents with magazines, other items: FBI

Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate early this year contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday. No space at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate was authorized for the storage of classified material, according to the court papers, which laid out the FBI's rationale for searching the property this month, including probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found. The 32-page affidavit heavily redacted to protect the safety of witnesses and law enforcement officials and the integrity of the ongoing investigation offers the most detailed description to date of the government records being stored at Mar-a-Lago long after Trump left the White House. It also reveals the gravity of the government's concerns that the documents were there illegally. The document makes clear how the haphazard ..

Trump denies mention of 'nuclear' in redacted affidavit, criticizes judge

On a recently released and redacted version of an affidavit used to back a raid on Former US President, Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, Trump said that the document makes no mention of nuclear information as he criticized the judge handling the case."Affidavit heavily redacted!!! Nothing mentioned on 'Nuclear,' a total public relations subterfuge by the FBI & DOJ, or our close working relationship regarding document turnover - WE GAVE THEM MUCH [sic]," Trump said in a statement via social media.Earlier on Friday, the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida released a redacted version of the affidavit used to justify a search warrant on Trump's residence. An FBI investigation, prompted by a referral from the National Archives and Records Administration, determined that there was probable cause to believe that sensitive records may be improperly kept at Mar-a-Lago, according to the affidavit, according to The Hill.Trump further criticized the judge ..

Trump's stash at Mar-a-Lago had highly classified documents: FBI affidavit

Those boxes initially retrieved from Trump also included information barred from release to foreign nationals, and information that can be disseminated only with the approval of its originator