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An Italian-led investigation, supported by the European Union (EU) prosecutor and judiciary agency Eurojust, has smashed a network responsible for forging and selling 2,000 works of contemporary art, from artists including Banksy, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso. In what Eurojust, said (1) was “an unprecedented operation”, involving Belgian, French and Spanish authorities, 38 suspects accused of involvement in a cross-border fake art network have been charged in Italy with conspiracy to forge and dealing in forged art. …

French government plans for special “exceptional and temporary” taxes on the highest earning individuals and companies with the largest turnover will not make those targeted flee France, an aide close to budget minister Laurent Saint-Martin stressed to Accounting & Business.

The draft budget law (PLF) 2025 (1) was unveiled on October 10 by Saint-Martin (a member of the Rennaissance centrist bloc backing President Emmanuel Macron) and finance minister Antoine Armand (also from Rennaissance) before the French lower house of parliament, the National Assembly.…

Niger’s military government is insisting it has maintained higher education services despite international sanctions imposed on the west African country since the coup d’état of last July (2023). This has ruptured relations with western and some neighbouring countries, prompting concerns that Nigerien students might struggle to continue their studies abroad.…

China’s paint and coatings companies are struggling to make headway in a tough domestic real estate market, even though medium-term forecasts remain positive. In the first six months of 2024, the value of real estate sales fell by 26.4% year-on-year. The average prices of deals struck dropped 7%, according to the China Real Estate Information Corp which bases its data on the country’s 100 largest real estate developers.…

Cape Verde’s Atlantic Technical University (Universidade Técnica do Atlântico – UTA) is next month (October 1) opening a new travel industry-focused institute, offering new degrees in tourism management and promotion and civil aviation management.

This new Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Tourism (Instituto Superior de Aeronáutica e Turismo – ISAT) will operate within the public university in premises on the island of Sal, one of the smallest of this archipelago country.…

In a “scary” world that is moving faster, adhesive businesses should assess opportunities to innovate, focusing on their “your sense of timing”, innovation expert Peter Hinssen told participants in the FEICA 2024 European Adhesive & Sealant Conference. Speaking in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands, Hinssen, partner at consultancy nexxworks, told members of the Association of the European Adhesive and Sealant Industry (FEICA) companies should not wait until they are at their peak or past it, to reinvent themselves: “That doesn’t work anymore.…

Romania uncovered EUR419 million’s worth of fraud associated with European Union (EU) spending programmes in 2023, detailed reports issued by the European Commission have revealed. The major spike in swindles, far above levels reported by other EU member states, were inflated especially by two sets of swindles associated with the EU Cohesion Fund, the bloc’s main regional development scheme, each accounting for around EUR168 million (2).…

A landmark ruling in a Swiss court has clawed back the more than USD1.8 billion two dual nationals defrauded from the fraud and graft-wracked Malaysian investment fund, 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). 

The Swiss Federal Criminal Court, in Bellinzona, southern Switzerland, August 28 convicted two former PetroSaudi executives over their role in embezzling money from 1MDB for over six years starting in 2009.…

Cybercrime has spanned national borders as it has increased exponentially in recent years. However, despite often being carried out in multiple jurisdictions that require a coordinated multinational response, tackling such crime has been hampered by the lack of international cooperation. Paul Cochrane reports.…