Dog Influencers Take Over Instagram After Pandemic Puppy Boom Bloomberg
Jailed drug smuggler Michael Ibrahim arranged for his wife to receive a $1.5 million nest egg by investing millions in a tax fraud scheme run by construction identity George Alex, police will allege.
According to documents tendered in the Queensland Supreme Court, Ibrahim and Alex put nearly $3 million into a business that was allegedly part of a complex network of companies that stole more than $17 million in unpaid tax.
It is alleged Ibrahim’s wife, Caitlin Hall, was the end recipient of almost $1.5 million of the money that was laundered through overseas shelf companies before being deposited into the accounts of three companies of which she was the director.
Michael Ibrahim ‘arranged for wife Caitlin Hall to be paid $1.5m’ while in jail
A RETIRED pensioner managed to amass an eastern suburbs property and
share portfolio worth tens of millions of dollars while on a widow's
pension in the leadup to her son's bankruptcy.
Now her son -
former mining executive and mortgage broker Ian Stolyar - and his wife
Beth Nguyen have been accused of hiding their assets in the elderly
woman's name to dodge their creditors.
Ukrainian-born Faina
Stolyar, 79, has acquired more than $3m worth of shares and some of the
city's most prized waterfront properties despite being on a widow's
pension since 2002.
A statement of claim filed in the Federal
Court by the trustee of the Stolyars' bankrupt estates, Andrew Scott,
alleges Mr Stolyar bought homes for his mother and transferred property
into her name while he was being chased for money through the courts
until he was bankrupted in 2016. The claim states Mrs Stolyar's only
income in 2002 came from welfare payments but since then she hasn't
earned anything.
Companies Start to Think Remote Work Isn’t So Great After All WSJ. “[A]s the work-from-home experiment stretches on, some cracks are starting to emerge. Projects take longer. Training is tougher. Hiring and integrating new employees, more complicated. Some employers say their workers appear less connected and bosses fear that younger professionals aren’t developing at the same rate as they would in offices, sitting next to colleagues and absorbing how they do their jobs.”
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Facebook offers $650 million to settle facial recognition suit The Hill
Sick of AI engines scraping your pics for facial recognition? Here’s a way to Fawkes them right up The Register (dk).
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Six locations in Ireland were discussed by government officials as possible sites for a new autonomous city named Nextpolis proposed by a wealthy Hong Kong businessman, The Times can reveal.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has been in contact with the Victoria Harbour Group (VHG), an international charter city investment company, since December about a plan to create a city from scratch that would be home to tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents…
The proposed city was referred to as Sim City in its early stages, after the computer game in which players create their own city. Over time its name changed to Nextpolis.
Here is the full story (Times of London, gated). This article (same source) suggests the Irish citizenry is unlikely to favor the plan.
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