Crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried, once hailed as a pioneer in the world of digital currency, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for orchestrating a massive fraud scheme that left hundreds of thousands of customers devastated. The downfall of FTX, once a leading platform for cryptocurrency exchange, marked the unraveling of Bankman-Fried's empire.U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan delivered a scathing assessment of Bankman-Fried's actions, acknowledging t...

Saudi Arabia imprisoned a woman for 30 years for criticizing the Neom megacity project on Twitter, according to an activist group.ALQST, a UK-based human rights group, said a Saudi court sentenced Fatima al-Shawarbi to 30 years during a recent appeal hearing.She is in her 20s and from Al-Ahsa province, the group said.The Saudi justice system is cloaked in secrecy, often leaving activist groups as the only sources of information about cases.ALQST said that it relies...

In Ghana,  His Lordship Ebenezer Osei has sentenced two Nigerians to 40 years imprisonment yesterday, October 3.The two Nigerian robbed a mobile money vendor in broad daylight light at Kasoa New Market Junction in the Central Region of Ghana on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, and have been jailed for 40 years by the Kasoa Ofaakor Circuit Court.The robbers who carted away a total of GH¢11,800 were identified as Bright Okwara and Ferdinand Obi. They reportedly committed that c...