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Gautam Adani, chairman of the Adani Group, along with two other executives, has been charged in a New York federal court with wire and securities fraud. The charges involve an alleged scheme to defraud investors by making false statements and bribing Indian officials to secure lucrative contracts. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn announced the indictment, highlighting the international scope of the alleged fraud.
A group of 67 plaintiffs, including direct victims and relatives of the October 7 Attack, has filed a lawsuit in US federal court seeking to hold Iran responsible for the massacre and seeking unspecified punitive damages. The lawsuit alleges that Iran provided funds, weapons, training, and intelligence to Hamas and PIJ, contributing to the attack. This is the first attempt to hold Iran accountable for the October 7 Massacre.
A Russian man, Sergey Ochigava, has been found guilty by a US federal court of being a stowaway on a Scandinavian Airlines flight from Denmark to Los Angeles last November. Ochigava boarded the flight without a ticket, passport, or visa, and faces up to five years in prison. He was arrested at the LA airport after officials could not find any record of his booking or visa application. Ochigava had managed to bypass security at Copenhagen Airport and board the flight undetected, and upon arrival in LA, he was unable to provide any official travel documents.