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Tag: US Federal Bureau of Investigation

Posted inIndonesia

Indonesia’s richest busted breaking NoKo sanctions

by John McBeth January 18, 2021January 21, 2021

JAKARTA – The US Justice Department has reached a US$1.5 million settlement with a company owned by Indonesia’s richest family for 28 violations of trading sanctions imposed on North Korea to pressure it to abandon its nuclear weapons program. PT Bukit Muria Jaya (BMJ), a minor subsidiary of tobacco giant Djarum, has also entered into a […]

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by Asia Times staff February 26, 2019February 18, 2020
Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (R) and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (L) attend a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on March 24, 2017.Photo: AFP/David Gray
Posted inAustralia, Beijing, China, Oceania, South Asia, World

China, Australia stuck in a game of blind man’s bluff

by Alan Boyd May 24, 2018February 18, 2020
Self-confessed Belorussian escort Anastasia Vashukevich in an August 21, 2017 photo from her Instagram account. Photo: Instragram
Posted inAT Finance, China, Hong Kong, Iran, Middle East, Russia, Thailand, World

FBI piqued by Russia sex spy story

by Richard S Ehrlich March 16, 2018February 18, 2020
Malaysia's then Prime Minister Najib Razak speaks during the launching of the Malaysia world's Digital-Free Trade Zone in Kuala Lumpur on March 22, 2017. Photo: AFP/Mohd Rasfan
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Singapore, World

‘Kleptocracy at its worst’ in Malaysia

by Nile Bowie March 9, 2018February 18, 2020
Indonesian parliament speaker Setya Novanto, is escorted from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) building in Jakarta, Indonesia November 21, 2017. Photo: Antara Foto via Reuters/Wahyu Putro
Posted inAT Finance, Indonesia, Middle East

The man who knows too much in Indonesia

by John McBeth November 23, 2017February 18, 2020
Posted inAT Finance, Indonesia

Indonesia’s Mr. Teflon finally in the dock

by John McBeth November 20, 2017February 18, 2020

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