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10 year ban for dodgy Director

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The insolvency service has issued a huge 10 year ban to a rogue director following investigations. Grigorijs Hacaturjancs, 34, originally from Latvia, has been disqualified as a director for 10 years after fraudulently claiming a £50,000 Bounce Back Loan.

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billion in additional student loan debt relief for 73,600 borrowers. These discharges are the result of fixes to income-driven repayment (IDR) forgiveness and public service loan forgiveness (PSLF) made by the administration. On January 19, the Biden-Harris administration announced the approval of $4.9 For more information, click here.

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On January 20, the FTC issued an advisory opinion, stating that the Holder Rule does not prevent a plaintiff from recovering attorneys’ fees and costs against a “loan holder,” where another state, local, or federal law permits the recovery as some courts have incorrectly concluded. For more information, click here.

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for allegedly engaging in a pump-and-dump scheme regarding a crypto-asset security named “Dignity,” which Arbitrade and Cryptobontix falsely represented to investors was backed by $10 billion in gold bullion the entities obtained through a purchase transaction. and Cryptobontix, Inc. For more information, click here. On September 29, U.S.

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In November 2022, Genesis announced that it will prohibit retail investors from withdrawing their cryptocurrency deposits from Gemini Earn accounts due to liquidity risks. On January 10, the FTC announced that it will send payments totaling more than $2.9 For more information, click here. For more information, click here.

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For the first year after the effective date of the proposal, these firms would be subject to an excise tax of 10% of the costs of electricity they use in digital asset mining. billion in revenue over 10 years. Strengthen Retail (Consumer) Investor Protections. The White House estimates that the DAME tax will raise $3.5

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Throughout 2015 and 2016, a customer of Swedbank Latvia used Swedbank Latvia’s e-banking platform from an internet protocol address in Crimea to send payments to persons in Crimea through U.S. Swedbank Latvia agreed to remit $3,430,900 to settle its potential civil liability for 386 apparent violations of OFAC’s Crimea sanctions.