LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Atletico Madrid’s Diego Costa has pleaded guilty to defrauding the Spanish state of more than €1 million (£813,000/$1,127,000) after failing to declare payments of over €5m earned from his 2014 move to Chelsea. The striker was sentenced to six months in prison on Thursday, but Spanish law states that non-violent crimes with…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A special anti-corruption court in Iran has sentenced a couple to death on money laundering and other charges, the judiciary said Tuesday. The couple — Najva Lasheidaei and her husband Vahid Behzadi — are said to have smuggled hard currency and laundered $200 million, said judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili. Authorities also confiscated…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS) Guillaume Soro, the former rebel leader running for president in Ivory Coast, was convicted in absentia on Tuesday of embezzlement and sentenced to 20 years in prison, a verdict likely to exclude him from October’s election. The verdict was announced after a trial that lasted only a few hours and was…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Cameroonian court handed life sentences to 10 separatist leaders on Tuesday after finding them guilty of charges including terrorism in their fight to break away from the Francophone-dominated central government, their lawyers said. They included Julius Ayuk Tabe, a key figure in the Anglophone movement in western Cameroon, whose followers have…