Chief of huge MRI Ponzi scheme that straddled Tokyo and Las Vegas gets 50-year term in U.S.
The former head of an investment firm that operated in Tokyo and Las Vegas was sentenced Thursday to 50 years in prison, for swindling thousands of Japanese victims in what prosecutors called a $1.5 billion international Ponzi scheme that ranks among the largest-ever fraud ...
Netherlands wants tribunal to try some Islamic State members for 'mass atrocity crimes'
The Netherlands called Thursday for the establishment of a tribunal to prosecute members of the Islamic State extremist group responsible for "mass atrocity crimes." Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok made the proposal at a U.N. Security Council meeting on the protection of civilians in conflict, ...
Under Japan's revised anti-gangster law, yakuza boss told to pay damages for money transfer scam
A court on Thursday ordered the head of the Sumiyoshi-kai crime syndicate to pay damages over money transfer scams committed by a fraud group formed by an affiliated gang member. The Mito District Court ordered Isao Seki, head of Japan's second largest crime syndicate, and ...
Police recorded 88% of interrogations in lay judge cases across Japan in fiscal 2018
Police took complete video recordings during 87.6 percent of fiscal 2018 interrogations in criminal cases bound for lay judge trials, National Police Agency data showed Thursday. As the recording of interrogation video and audio will become mandatory in June based on the revised criminal procedure ...
Death sentence confirmed after killer of two Osaka junior high school students drops appeal
A death sentence for a man convicted of murdering two junior high school students in Osaka has been finalized after he dropped an appeal, it was learned Tuesday. According to the Osaka High Court, the appeal against the Osaka District Court ruling of December last ...
Third of Japan's lay judges say experience was stressful, but system viewed positively overall
One in three citizen judges recently surveyed by Kyodo News said passing judgment on their fellow peers in court was stressful, but a large majority still reflected on their experience as being positive. Of the 342 respondents in the survey conducted ahead of the lay ...
Japanese director of hot-spring consultancy handed 15-year prison sentence in China for spying
A Japanese man convicted of spying by a Chinese court was sentenced to 15 years in prison Monday, Sino-Japanese sources revealed the same day. The man, in his 50s, was also fined 100,000 yuan (about ¥1.6 million) by the court in Hainan Province for having ...
Man gets reduced sentence for 2016 murders after mental examination
A high court has scrapped a life prison term for a man and instead sentenced him to 25 years in prison for killing three of his relatives and attempting to murder a fourth in 2016. Following a psychiatric examination, the Tokyo High Court ruled Monday ...
The onerous rules for proving sexual assault should be reviewed.
Ex-CIA agent Kevin Mallory gets 20-year sentence for spying for China
An ex-CIA officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for spying for China in a case called part of an "alarming trend" in the U.S. intelligence community. Kevin Mallory, 62, was convicted under the Espionage Act for selling classified U.S. "defense information" to ...
Chinese court sentences Japanese man accused of stealing state secrets to 5½ years in prison
A Chinese court has sentenced a Japanese man who was detained some two years ago on charges of spying to 5½ years in prison, sources have said. The court in the city of Yantai, in the eastern province of Shandong, also ordered the seizure of ...
The end of the International Criminal Court?
By remaining in the ICC, states parties will sanctify the weaponization of international justice mechanisms to be used by the powerful against the weak but never against any of their own.
