Boeing agreed to plead guilty to avoid prosecution

The government found that the company violated an agreement that protected it from criminal prosecution for more than three years, the Justice Department said. Last week, federal prosecutors gave Boeing a choice: either plead guilty and pay a fine or stand trial on charges of conspiring to defraud the United States. Prosecutors accused the U.S. … Read more

BB.lv: The case about land close to the airport: the customer can also be punished

Two years in the past, in April 2022, land plots close to Riga Airport had been bought at public sale. They had been acquired by a Lithuanian developer (from the ME Holding NT holding), paying 5.7 million euros for it. She determined to construct warehouses there. The truth is, that they had no proper to … Read more

A Ukrainian stabbed a army registration and enlistment officer with a knife

In Ukraine, a prison case was opened in opposition to a resident of town of Sinelnikovo (Dnepropetrovsk area), who stabbed a sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, an worker of the territorial acquisition heart (TCC, an analogue of the army registration and enlistment workplace), media studies citing info from the Ukrainian Floor Forces. The … Read more

the general’s detention is linked to disinfection in the army

However, Kopeika himself connects the incident with the possible efforts of his colleague, who may take revenge on him for earlier checks, the LTV De Facto program reported. A week ago, the Military Police conducted a search at the State Center for Civil Defense and detained Ervins Kopeika. As a result, he was suspended. For … Read more

Criminal trial for flowers on the site of a monument?! Lato Lapsa is shocked

Publicist Lato Lapso expressed his criticism on social networks, comparing what is happening in Latvia with Russia. “How is this different from the “wrong” flower bearers in the “wrong” places with arrests and criminal prosecution in Russia? Right. Nothing,” he wrote in his microblog “X”. How is this different from the arrests and prosecutions of … Read more

Controversial ‘Bizz&Bike’ Hotel Project in Visé Sparks Discontent Among Residents

2024-04-24 14:30:00 A project which disenchants some Visétois, who came to express their discontent before the meeting of elected officials. They fear, among other things, “a precedent in the municipality opening the door to even greater urban excesses”. Targeted: soon a “bikeable” hotel with 111 rooms on the banks of the Meuse, a stone’s throw … Read more

kidnapped his ex-girlfriend and raped him multiple times

The prosecutor’s office has transferred a criminal case to the Riga City Court in which a man is accused of kidnapping and repeatedly raping his ex-girlfriend, the prosecutor’s office reports. As stated in the indictment, in the spring of 2023, a man, violating a court order prohibiting him from approaching his ex-girlfriend, came to her … Read more

Criminals in Latvia will be given the right to change their first and last name

The Ministry of Justice has submitted to the government amendments to the law “On changing the name, surname and record of citizenship”, proposing to establish that persons convicted of a criminal offense, whose conviction has not been expunged or expunged, also have the right to change their name and surname as established by law ok. … Read more