Goldman Sachs to pay $5 bln for misleading investors
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will pay $5.1 billion to resolve U.S. allegations that it failed to properly vet mortgage-backed securities before selling them to investors as high-quality debt, according to Bloomberg.New York-based Goldman Sachs, which announced details of the accord in January, will pay a $2.39 billion civil penalty, make $875 million...
Thousands of offshore companies for Mossack Fonseca managed by stooge directors – The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times reports that it has compiled a list of companies in Panama set up by Mossack Fonseca and its associates, as well the directors, shareholders and legal agents of those companies.Many of those directors are stooges, paid by Mossack Fonseca to conceal the identity of the true owners, The Sunday Times writes.One of them is even...
G7: Donbas elections should be held under Ukrainian law, monitored by OSCE
Local elections in Donbas should be held in accordance with relevant Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) standards and Ukrainian legislation and monitored by OSCE/ODHIR, according to a joint communique following G7 Foreign Ministers` Meeting in Hiroshima, Japan on April 10-11, 2016, published on the European External...
Schulz warns of ”implosion of EU”: FAZ
President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz says following the outcome of the Dutch referendum on Ukraine-EU Association Agreement, Europe should not rest on the fallacy that everything will end up well for the whole Union, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported.The President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz warned against...
Rada extends indefinitely moratorium on ”Russian debt” repayment
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Tuesday supported the move to extend for an indefinite period the moratorium on repayment of the so-called ”Russian debt,” an UNIAN correspondent reports.242 deputies (with a required minimum threshold of 226 votes) have supported the bill on amendments to Article 4 of the Law of Ukraine ”On peculiarities of the...
Groysman names his candidates for new government
The candidate for prime minister Volodymyr Groysman has submitted to the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko faction the composition of the new Cabinet of Ministers, Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda reported.According to the proposal, Vitaliy Kovalchuk will become First Deputy Prime Minister, whom Groysman opposed last evening.The following...
Netherlands to announce official results of EU-Ukraine referendum today afternoon
On April 12, the Electoral Council of the Netherlands will announce the official results of the referendum on the ratification of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU.The announcement of the results is scheduled for 16:00 (17:00 Kyiv time).As UaPosition reported earlier, on April 6, the Netherlands held an advisory referendum on...
Ukraine closes fish seaports in annexed Crimea
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has instructed to close fish seaports in Kerch and Sevastopol located in the territory of the Russian-annexed Crimea, until the restoration of Ukraine`s constitutional order on the peninsula, according to the government`s resolution published on its web portal.As stated in the explanatory note to the document,...
Russian proxies attack Ukraine troops 79 times in last day
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 79 times in the past 24 hours, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO).The illegal armed groups fired 120mm and 82mm mortars 16 times on ATO forces near the villages of Pisky, Mayorsk, Zaitseve, Luhanske, and Kamianka.The...
Police detain suspect who tried to kill Ukraine`s chief MH17 expert
Ukrainian law enforcement officers have detained a man, who is suspected of attempted murder of Ukraine`s chief forensic expert on the most high-profile criminal cases, according to Ukraine Today.Oleksandr Ruvin, Director of Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Expertise at the Ministry of Justice, was shot several times near his residence in...