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A Swiss court has ordered that the co-owner of a bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana that caught fire on New Year’s Day, killing 40 people, must remain in custody as the criminal investigation proceeds. In a statement, the court said Jacques Moretti will be held for a provisional period of three months. The order can be reviewed if measures are taken to reduce the risk of flight, including the possibility of a security deposit. Prosecutors in the Valais canton initially ordered Moretti’s detention on Friday after a…

UK man jailed 14 years for selling suicide chemical online in landmark case A man who sold a chemical online to vulnerable people seeking to end their lives has been jailed for 14 years in what is believed to be the first prosecution of its kind in the UK. Miles Cross, 33, set up a business selling the substance through an internet discussion forum and operated under a pseudonym, Mold Crown Court heard. Prosecutors said Cross posted a QR code that allowed buyers to pay him directly via his bank account and directed them to…

Malaysia’s High Court on Friday sentenced former Prime Minister Najib Razak to 15 years in prison after finding him guilty of abuse of power and money laundering tied to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, deepening the legal reckoning over a case that has reshaped the country’s politics and reputation. Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah said the sentences “are to run concurrently,” and ordered fines and asset seizures. Najib’s lawyers said they will appeal the ruling next week. The verdict adds to a cascade of criminal cases…

A former Harvard Medical School morgue manager has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for stealing and selling body parts donated for scientific research, the U.S. Justice Department said, in a case that rattled one of the nation’s premier medical institutions and exposed a shadow market for human remains. Cedric Lodge, 58, pleaded guilty in May to trafficking stolen remains from 2018 through at least March 2020. Prosecutors said the items included internal organs, brains, skin, hands, faces and dissected heads…

First night in jail for Jacob Zuma. The former South African president, sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt, handed over to police on the night of Wednesday, July 7. He had left his home in Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal just before midnight and thus avoided police intervention. The urgent appeals brought by his legal team were not sufficient to reject the decision to arrest him issued by the…

Four Cameroonian soldiers received 10-year prison sentences Monday for the killing of two women and two children in an incident that sparked international insurgency, their lawyers said. They and three other soldiers were arrested after a video surfaced on social media in July 2018 showing uniformed men leveling rifles and firing at the victims, one of whom had a baby strapped to his back. The video was one of several that emerged in recent years with alleged atrocities by Cameroonian forces during operations against…