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  • Mike Lynch, former chief executive officer of Autonomy Corp., arrives at federal court in San Francisco, California, US, on Monday, March 18, 2024. Lynch is charged with 14 counts of wire fraud, one count of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Photographer: Loren Elliott/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Bayesian superyacht party was a celebration of Mike Lynch’s U.S. lawsuit victory against HP when waterspout storm struck

    By Jonathan Browning and Bloomberg
  • City of LondonFinance

    Top UK law firm’s money-laundering defense hinges on awkwardness: ‘In Europe, in my culture, we don’t do that. You don’t ask err, how much do you make?’

    By Jonathan Browning and Bloomberg
  • Superyacht 'Phi' which remains seized at 'Dollar Bay' in London DocklandsFinance

    UK government tells Russian tycoons they aren’t getting their impounded yachts and private jets back

    By Jonathan Browning and Bloomberg
  • Vladimir Potanin, billionaire and owner of MMC Norilsk Nickel PJSC, gestures as he speaks during a panel session at the annual VTB Capital ‘Russia Calling’ Forum in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. The Russian governments unusual stinginess with spending this year has turned it into one of the biggest depositors in the banking system, fattening the balance sheets of big state banks and depressing deposit rates. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Russia’s richest oligarch is trying to avoid the world’s most expensive divorce after his wife takes her case to UK courts that are ‘renowned for their generosity’

    By Jonathan Browning and Bloomberg
  • A girl wearing a backpack walking in front of a Lloyds bank branch in London

    Lloyds Bank went ‘too far’ when they fired a manager for using the N-Word. Now they must pay him back.

    By Jonathan Browning and Bloomberg
  • ROME, ITALY – MAY 17: People with placards and banners participate at “No to the extradition to the USA of Julian Assange”, the Amnesty International initiative, near the UK embassy, against the extradition of Julian Assange from the UK to the USA, on May 17, 2022 in Rome, Italy. A UK court formally approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the US on espionage charges in April. The ultimate decision on his extradition lies with the UK’s Home Secretry, Priti Patel. (Photo by Simona Granati – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)Tech

    Wikileaks founder Julian Assange faces U.S. extradition in espionage case after U.K. approves transfer

    By Jonathan Browning and Bloomberg
  • Roman AbramovichPersonal Finance

    A tiny island just froze $7 billion of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s fortune—half of all his wealth

    By Jonathan Browning and Bloomberg
  • 06 March 2022, Hamburg: The mega-yacht “Dilbar” lies completely shrouded in the Blohm+Voss Dock Elbe 17 in the harbor. The 156-meter-long ship is said to belong to a Russian oligarch. Photo: Markus Scholz/dpa/picture alliance/dpa | Markus Scholz (Photo by Markus Scholz/picture alliance via Getty Images)International

    One Russian oligarch’s $600 million superyacht is stuck in Germany after he stopped paying the crew

    By Jonathan Browning and Bloomberg
  • HONG KONG, CHINA – 2021/03/21: Customers are seen at the American multinational technology company Apple store in Hong Kong. (Photo by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Tech

    Apple loses bid to stop Swatch from using Steve Jobs’s ‘one more thing’ line

    By Jonathan Browning and Bloomberg
  • Greesill collapses, applies for insolvency in the U.K.International

    In stunning collapse, SoftBank-backed lender Greensill files for U.K. insolvency

    By Lucca de Paoli, Luca Casiraghi, and others
  • Gopichand Hinduja and Srichand Hinduja are two of the brothers involved in the dispute over the Hinduja family’s wealth.International

    One of the world’s richest families is fighting over a letter dividing their $11.2 billion fortune

    By Ben Stupples, Jonathan Browning, and others
  • A passenger aircraft, operated by British Airways, a unit of International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (IAG) comes into land at London Heathrow Airport in London, U.K., on Monday, June 8, 2020. The U.K. is pressing ahead with a two-week quarantine on international arrivals, a move British Airways and other carriers say will devastate tourism and wreck any chance the summer holiday season could spark a recovery from a virus-induced slump.

    U.K. airlines to sue government over two week quarantine rule for arriving passengers

    By Ellen Milligan, Jonathan Browning, and others
  • A food delivery courier for Deliveroo cycles in Manchester, U.K. The food delivery startup has been a lifeline to locked-down Britons since the coronavirus crisis shut restaurants. But the outbreak is hurting business.International

    The U.K. green-lights Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo, a lifeline for the coronavirus-stricken firm

    By Jonathan Browning and Bloomberg
  • The Ritz Hotel in London is at the centre of a dispute between the offspring of the reclusive twin billionaire Barclay brothers.International

    A bugging at the Ritz Hotel is at the center of a court battle between the heirs of British billionaire twins

    By Jonathan Browning, Ben Stupples, and others
  • Hacker in front of the screenTech

    Amazon Merchants Hit by Extensive Six-Month Fraud

    By Jonathan Browning and Bloomberg