The syndicate was based in an apartment in Trump Tower.
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The syndicate raid, however, appears to have been an overstep.
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Then he branched out with Meyer Lansky to create 'The Syndicate.
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Advincula claimed to have once been a part of the syndicate.
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However, the syndicate bankers dismissed the FCA's findings as out of date.
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ABG, BAML and BNP Paribas join the syndicate as co-lead managers.
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Most assumed that was because the demonstration had taken place at the syndicate.
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The syndicate held the group responsible and called for al-Dais&apos release.
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Both have shared videos featuring their CSGOLotto wins, like the Syndicate video below.
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He noted that each of the syndicate members has a different perspective on cyber.
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It's the hoodlums, the punks, the syndicate killers, and the dope peddlers we're after.
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Societe Generale will also be part of the syndicate, one of the sources said.
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All that discussion takes place on the syndicate desk and not the public side.
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A Taiwanese law enforcement flow chart identifies Tse as the "Multinational CEO" of the syndicate.
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The syndicate appears to be organised like a typical corporation, with descending levels of power.
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By the time the police arrived at the Ahmedabad location, though, the syndicate was gone.
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One grocery chain had to refund the syndicate $600,000 for orders it failed to execute.
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It also imposed a "media gag" on discussions of the incursion into the syndicate, pending investigations.
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NLFI said fees would be capped at 4.5 million euros shared between all the syndicate banks.
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Police identified the syndicate in January and launched a probe to identity the ringleaders and members.
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The syndicate also includes Kepler Cheuvreux and Mainfirst as co-managers, and Octavian as selling agent.
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" And some servants at a British manor win the lottery in "The Syndicate: All or Nothing.
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The brainstorming initiative will culminate with a conference next year when the syndicate will present its findings.
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The syndicate, which is made up of around 100 former Uber employees, "started pretty organically," Mohrer said.
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The syndicate has been known to collaborate with Japan's Yakuza and motorcycle gangs like the Hells Angels.
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The syndicate, dubbed "Sam Gor," even collaborates with Japan's Yakuza and motorcycle gangs like the Hells Angels.
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The syndicate operated at least seven of these brothels, along with "pop-up" rooms advertised on Backpage.
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Equitable said on Wednesday that a sixth major Canadian bank had joined the syndicate for the facility.
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The syndicate consisted of more than 13,000 people, including smugglers, dealers, group administrators of social networks, it added.
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He said the syndicate could pocket as much as HK$12 million in profit through such illegal loans.
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"We may have a decision in mid-September, but there's no formal bid timetable," the syndicate head said.
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We have canceled our contract with CartoonArts International, the syndicate that provided the cartoon and defended its release.
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"Say they buy back €10m and pay €8m for it, there is a profit," the syndicate head said.
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"The Syndicate" is visually simple, but it captures an essential concentration of Drexler's: the inherent duality of identity.
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Numerous media reports have linked Mr. Skoch to organized crime — specifically to the syndicate known as the Solntsevo gang.
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"Liquidity has increased significantly in this region, and issuers want to take advantage of that," said the syndicate head.
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So far, at least one senior member of the syndicate has been arrested, according to investigators and police documents.
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The syndicate then obtains details of a bank customer to make seemingly legitimate money transfers in that customer's name.
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"Logically one has to assume that's where the ECB will end up, otherwise why do it," the syndicate head said.
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That was just under a year after the bank folded its hybrid and liability management team into the syndicate business.
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Police also say the syndicate traffics MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, and cocaine sourced from Europe and Latin America respectively.
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They said police were banned from searching the building except in the presence of the syndicate chief or his deputies.
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The syndicate thrived because of its secret weapons — all seven of them — and yet it was done in from within.
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"In any ECM (equity capital markets) deal, post bookbuild, you have consistency in messaging and processes within the syndicate," she said.
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After years of being away from home, the samurai runs into an old friend that is being stalked by the syndicate.
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Meanwhile, Alexandra Kwong, who headed the syndicate for leveraged capital markets and special situations group, Asia (ex-Japan) has left UBS.
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"There is a syndicate in this institution and the syndicate is colluding to steal the election," UPND lawyer Martha Mushipe said.
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Nine people were arrested, but other than Cai they were lower-level members of the syndicate, including couriers and a driver.
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Nonetheless, the syndicate thrives, in part because the rewards are so huge and in part because the alternatives are so sparse.
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"Investors are worried where we are in the cycle and they are not afraid to push back," the syndicate head said.
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Police uncovered the syndicate after a pharmacist in Bekasi, near Jakarta, was arrested in May for selling medicine without a license.
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The syndicate includes China Construciton Bank, ABN AMRO Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Banco Latinoamericano de Exportações and Commerzbank.
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The heist begins with the syndicate providing dozens of impoverished collaborators fake identifications to open empty bank accounts, the report said.
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The syndicate is enormously wealthy, disciplined and sophisticated - in many ways more sophisticated than any Latin American cartel, say anti-narcotics officials.
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But little was done until a police investigation earlier this year exposed the syndicate, leading to at least 18 arrests so far.
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Before leading the syndicate, Dibner was a partner at London-based venture capital firm DFJ Esprit, which he departed in March 2015.
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A flow-chart of the syndicate in a Taiwanese law enforcement document identifies Tse as the "Multinational CEO" of the Sam Gor syndicate.
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A document containing AFP profiles of the operation's top 19 syndicate targets, reviewed by Reuters, identifies Tse as the leader of the syndicate.
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The syndicate bosses in Hong Kong were irate - their other drug rings in Australia were collecting their narcotics and selling them without incident.
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Demonstrations have taken place outside the syndicate for decades, particularly in the aftermath of the 8003 uprising that deposed longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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Demonstrations have taken place outside the syndicate for decades, particularly in the aftermath of the 2011 uprising that deposed longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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When markets do turn, a call "gives the syndicate guaranteed access (to management)," said Jessica Reiss, head of leveraged loan research at Covenant Review.
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In 2013, as the patience of the syndicate leaders wore thin, they summoned the leader of the Melbourne cell to Hong Kong for talks.
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Tim Fitzgerald, a regional commander at the Australian Border Force, said the syndicate involved had used a very sophisticated technique to hide the drugs.
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The loan and bond financing that is sold to the market is expected to have leverage of 6-6.5 times, the syndicate head said.
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LONDON, July 30 (IFR) - Divyen Patel has moved from corporate debt capital markets origination desk at Citigroup to the syndicate, following Sabine Khater's departure.
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The demonstration was scheduled to begin in less than half an hour, but the police had barricaded the street in front of the syndicate.
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The antagonist would be an ex samurai that has decided to leave his life behind and start anew after a year of serving the syndicate.
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When Thailand stopped much of the meth coming directly across the border from Myanmar by truck, the syndicate re-routed deliveries through Laos and Vietnam.
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A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) alert circulated among regional government agencies this year says Tse is "believed to be" the leader of the syndicate.
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Qalash and the syndicate condemned the arrests, which sparked protests from journalists, and issued a statement two days later demanding the interior minister be sacked.
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An editor from The Times's Opinion section downloaded Mr. Antunes's cartoon from the syndicate and made the decision to publish it, according to Ms. Murphy.
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"The cost to swap Argentina risk would be prohibitive, but they have enough trade flows [with Europe] to justify keeping euros," said the syndicate manager.
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Looking closely at "The Syndicate," printed Ben-Day dots are visible, as are drips of glue and paint, recalling both Jackson Pollock and Roy Lichtenstein.
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"Under the terms of the new waiver, the syndicate lenders have now provided access to the company's full syndicate funding facilities," Fletcher said in the statement.
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The bank said it had finalised the syndicate underwriting its 22015 billion Swiss franc ($20700 billion) rights offering, adding more banks to the list of participants.
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The remaining money was allegedly siphoned off by the syndicate members and channelled through a complex series of companies and trusts for their own personal gain.
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The closest thing resembling such a document in the official police report is simply a paper issued by the syndicate on health conditions in Egyptian prisons.
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His instinct was to create an alibi: he told the interrogating officer that he had been retrieving a computer that was being repaired near the syndicate.
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The syndicate didn't come together the way I'd anticipated at the time that it was expected to be ... The company felt like it wasn't the company's fault.
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The syndicate sold fake booster vaccines for hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough to at least 14 health facilities in Jakarta and elsewhere on Java island.
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To do this JDA would only require the approval of the loan's agent, JP Morgan, and not that of other lenders in the syndicate, according to sources.
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Nils Bachmann Hansen, an associate director, will relocate to New York from Sydney and join the syndicate desk, reporting to Peter Burger, head of debt syndicate, Americas.
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Catherine Baratti-Elbaz said she would propose to the local council representatives in the syndicate to vote for ending the contract at a meeting on June 21.
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The five-year pre-export finance facility was initially launched with 10 international banks but due to strong interest, the borrower is now considering extending the syndicate.
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Mahmoud Kamel, a member of the syndicate board, said over 40 policemen raided the building but the interior ministry said its force consisted of only eight officers.
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Dozens of journalists later held a new sit-in at the syndicate to protest against the arrest but police closed off streets to the building on Monday.
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"Anchor investors still have ability to sway a deal but they don't have the same ability to sit in judgment on the market," the syndicate head said.
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A court in November found the syndicate leadership, including Qalash, guilty of harbouring criminals and sentenced them to two years in prison in relation to the incident.
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There had been an attempt to hold a second protest over the islands on April 25th, and early that afternoon I made my way toward the syndicate.
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The syndicate behind the 71 deaths included an Afghan ring leader, nine Bulgarians who ran the actual driving and a Bulgarian-Lebanese who purchased trucks, Boross said.
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Itaú BBA of Brazil led the syndicate for the Atacadão offering, with Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bradesco BBI and Santander also participating.
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Descending into the Rose's lower-level galleries, we're greeted by "The Syndicate" (1964), a large, two-panel work that shows a mirrored set of seated, suited men.
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Kentaro Kiso has moved out of the syndicate function in Japan and is now president, Barclays Securities Japan, reporting to Mark Dearlove, chief executive of Barclays Securities Japan.
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After last year's operation, the Spanish police said they followed "the money trail" and found that the syndicate had deposited its earnings at the Spanish subsidiary of ICBC.
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Other banks are likely to join the syndicate for the IPO that is expected in the current financial year ending March 31, IFR, a Thomson Reuters publication, reported.
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At the core of the syndicate are at least five triad groups that originated in Hong Kong, Macau, China and Taiwan but which have global reach, AFP officers said.
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The money the syndicate is making "means that if they lose ten tonnes and one goes through, they still make a big profit," said the Chinese counter-narcotics official.
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"Senior will be the most difficult asset class this year, versus subordinated, where at least you know where you are in the creditors' ranking order," said the syndicate official.
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A second trader described the deal's execution as "unbelievably sloppy from the syndicate side," arguing that the deal's size was increased too much from the originally planned US$500m.
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It said that the syndicate was based in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, and that it had cheated mainland Chinese in nine provinces out of millions of renminbi, the Chinese currency.
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Few people in America knew just how far-reaching was the spread of what was known then as the Mob and the Syndicate, corrupting every area of the country.
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This year's fair, which from now on will be held annually (the syndicate is working on a new title), featured just four jewelry dealers, 21.6 fewer than in 219.
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"We have heard that trucks full of tomatoes are still leaving the country, especially to Iraq," Mohammad Mir-Razavi, head of the Syndicate of Canning Industry, said by telephone.
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They say the gang dominates a prime smuggling route that starts in Bolivia, then heads southeast to Brazil via Paraguay, where the syndicate is overwhelming that nation's weak institutions.
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Lebanese daily Al-Nahar cited al-Brax saying the union was suspending its strike to hold talks with authorities and added the syndicate would have a meeting on Monday.
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Jack Wolf and his wife Laurie, who run the syndicate Starlight Racing, jumped at the opportunity to buy into Audible and Justify because they usually invest in unproven yearlings.
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Still, when we saw Farrah at the Syndicate L.A. party at Jimmy Goldstein's home on Monday night ... she seemed excited about the possibility of throwing down at some point.
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The energy-rich Gulf state announced plans to pull-out of the syndicate on Monday, just days before a meeting between the influential cartel and its allies in Vienna, Austria.
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As they came and went, Stan's deal with the syndicate stayed the same: he got paid for the strip, and had to pay the artists out of his own pocket.
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Reuters spoke to militia leaders in Myanmar's Shan State, the heart of Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle, where the syndicate is suspected of mass producing drugs in so-called super-labs.
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They revealed that "about 22,200 pangolins were killed and [1,839 pounds] of pangolin scales sourced throughout the state and supplied to the syndicate over 13 months," reported the Associated Press.
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"While deals will go much better with anchors clamoring for tickets, a medium sized deal can now get done without any of those investors taking part," the syndicate head said.
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Members of the syndicate also trafficked guns illegally, used a skimmer to steal credit card numbers and profited from the sales of $3 million worth of illegal cigarettes, prosecutors said.
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He added that the syndicate teams responsible for the tap were only made aware of S&P's rating cut the following day, a few hours before it was made public.
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After managing an unsuccessful challenge for the 1992 America's Cup, he was the syndicate head in 1995 when Team New Zealand won yachting's most prestigious trophy for the first time.
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The SBI did not provide any details of the amounts involved with Orbital ATK Inc, but said the firm met all compliance procedures laid out by the syndicate of lenders.
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The response from the journalist profession was swift and severe — drawing almost universal condemnation, with even state-owned newspapers publishing strongly worded editorials denouncing the Interior Ministry's move against the syndicate.
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President Joko Widodo urged calm as public uproar intensified over revelations that health officials knew about the syndicate producing the fake vaccines for several years but did little to stop it.
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Homeland Security Investigations had already been looking at the syndicate they called the "Fraud Doc Ring" before the arrest, said Kevin Sonoff, spokesman for the United States Attorney's Office in Portland.
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Police first claimed that the syndicate raid hadn't in fact happened, and the prosecutor general then issued a gag order on reporting the case, which was roundly ignored by local press.
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Reciprocity is where one bank informally expects to be on an issue led by a competitor, if the rival was included in the syndicate of an issue led by the first bank.
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A gang member belonging to the syndicate told local press [link in Chinese] that he had bought raw materials online and mixed them to mimic the products, in another factory in Henan.
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The focus of the syndicate is on two-sided marketplaces and transportation startups like Lime and Cargo, which partnered with Uber last week to enable drivers to sell passengers goods during rides.
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This, together with the identification of suitable businesses, pro-bono legal support and the syndicate administrator operating at cost, makes the deals cheaper than usual for investments of this size, she added.
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" The syndicate banker said: "The back and forth between the countries is going to continue happening, but investors have been in the region for a while and know that it will settle.
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As the victims are not resident in the country where the syndicate is based and from where the scam is conducted, the police in the third country are usually reluctant to collaborate.
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One of his college teachers, who was freelancing at the Universal Press Syndicate (now called Andrews McMeel Syndication), recommended him for a job at the syndicate as an assistant editor in 20133.
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I pinpointed their home derby against city rivals AIK – better known as the 'Tvillingderbyt' or 'twin derby' – as the game to watch, recruiting one of my friends from the syndicate to tag along.
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On one occasion, he stayed at a resort in Thailand for a month, hosting visitors poolside in shorts and a T-shirt, according to a member of the task force investigating the syndicate.
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Under Sisi, dozens of journalists and bloggers have been imprisoned, but most of them have been young people who are not members of the syndicate, or who lack the backing of registered publications.
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Initial investigations showed that from March to October last year, about 220,200 domestic helpers borrowed money from the syndicate that is thought to have been run by a Hong Kong couple, according to police.
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"Based on docs, leverage and pricing you would think you are about to do a US$2bn solid, liquid loan but in reality it is a tiny, illiquid European deal," the syndicate head said.
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"We are still investigating, but we believe the syndicate involved has links with syndicates in Myanmar," Subromaniam said, adding that officials also seized a small amount of heroin and about 1 million contraband cigarettes.
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Since the initial announcement of the round earlier this month, Urban Us, the early-stage fund focused on companies transforming city life, has joined the syndicate comprised of Tech Square Labs and Knoll Ventures. Cove.
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The five other banks in the syndicate were Slovenia's Abanka and Gorenjska banka, Nova KBM, which is owned by U.S. investment firm Apollo Global Management, and local subsidiaries of Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo and Russia's Sberbank .
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Their assignment is to retrieve three highly dangerous plutonium cores from a man code-named John Lark, who is working with anarchist terror-network The Syndicate (yes, them again) to bring down the free world.
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The syndicate of banks underwriting the 5bn capital raise were due to meet on Monday to discuss whether the result could knock the cash call, expected to start on December 7 or 8, off course.
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The interior ministry denied officers had stormed the press labor union building but confirmed it had arrested journalists Mahmoud El Sakka and Amr Badr who work for the opposition website Bawabet Yanayer inside the syndicate.
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As more underground papers joined the syndicate and start-ups proliferated — Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book" listed 22010 affiliates in North America and Europe in 21980 — free counterculture news, criticism and cartoons became widely available.
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"We are deeply grateful to the syndicate of international banks that a mutually acceptable decision on restructuring this loan was found after several years of intensive negotiations," Mechel Chief Executive Oleg Korzhov said in the statement.
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It was then picked up by CartoonArts International, a syndicate for cartoons from around the world... An editor from The Times's Opinion section downloaded Mr. Antunes's cartoon from the syndicate and made the decision to publish it.
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Chan said initial investigations showed the syndicate was controlled by a Hong Kong couple aged 49 and 50 who recruited their own helper and other Filipino domestic helpers as assistants to find borrowers and expand the business.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - London Olympics bronze medalist Simon Van Velthooven has been training with Team New Zealand's for this year's America's Cup regatta as the syndicate turned to pedal power for their challenge, local media reported on Wednesday.
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Macau's Judicial Police said the syndicate was formed in 2016 and relied on point-of-sale machines -- the devices used by shops to conduct transactions with credit cards or debit cards -- which were smuggled in from China.
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As part of the same standard, the FMSB is also looking at how to manage the potential conflict of interest when a secondary trading desk assumes responsibility for bonds that have just been issued from the syndicate desk.
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"If something goes wrong and senior lenders form a committee to work out what demands to place on the equity, they will be sitting around the table with the equity, which may cause some concern," the syndicate head said.
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The syndicate is suspected to be the major player in both the meth and heroin markets, producing the drugs as well as the hallucinogen ketamine in super-labs in Myanmar's northeast, where ethnic armed groups control swathes of territory.
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Kidnapping gang Glenn Dumlao, who heads the PNP's anti-kidnapping unit, said the syndicate -- which is believed to be responsible for at least two other kidnappings -- operated in teams of four, who would patrol casino floors looking for victims.
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"Commissioner Colvin was clear to me that Michael Cranston was not suspected, and is still not suspected, of being involved in the syndicate and its activities of defrauding the Commonwealth," Jordan told a Senate budget estimates hearing in Canberra.
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In doing so, Burling usurped New Zealand's nemesis, Oracle Team USA skipper Jimmy Spithill, who won the cup in 2010 aged 30 and was hoping for a third successive victory for the syndicate bankrolled by Oracle founder Larry Ellison.
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A block from the syndicate, a dozen or so men were loitering on the street, and I struck up a conversation with Hossam Khalil, a twenty-seven-year-old journalist who writes for a Web site called Alhayat News.
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Reciprocity - where one bank informally expects to be on an issue led by a competitor, if the rival was included in the syndicate of an issue led by the first bank - was one of the practices that came under close consideration.
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On May 1, Egyptian state security forces entered the Journalists Syndicate headquarters and arrested the two journalists — an unprecedented move in the 75-year tenure of the syndicate — accusing them of being involved in inciting illegal protests against the state.
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According to the South China Morning Post, police in southern Guangdong province said late this week that they had nabbed "six major suspects of the syndicate," seizing about five million yuan ($748,000) and an additional 20173 million yuan ($1,495,000) in crypto.
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Instead, the syndicate hired a young artist named Olivia Jaimes (a pseudonym) and gave her the freedom not just to update Nancy for 2018 but to figure out what Bushmiller's playful style might look like if pulled forward into the present.
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For at least two months prior to his arrest, Cai allegedly traveled around Myanmar cobbling together a huge meth deal for the syndicate, according to a PowerPoint presentation by the Drug Enforcement Division of the Myanmar police outlining its investigation.
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The bank has hired ANZ, HSBC, Mizuho Bank and Standard Chartered to act as lead arrangers and bookrunners, who will seek lenders to take part in the syndicate from next week, IFR, a Thomson Reuters publication, said without citing sources.
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According to interviews with regional law enforcers from eight countries, as well as a review of law enforcement documents, the syndicate produces vast quantities of high-grade methamphetamine in Myanmar and trafficks the drug to countries stretching from Japan to New Zealand.
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"What is worrying is lenders structuring deals as if there isn't a downturn on the horizon, particularly if you are underwriting a cyclical deal with 5.0-6.0 times leverage, which then jumps to 10 times if things go wrong," the syndicate head said.
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"The ministry affirms that it did not raid the syndicate or use any kind of force in arresting the two journalists who handed themselves in as soon as they were told there was an arrest warrant," the interior ministry said in a statement.
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Sources also told Reuters in March that some of the syndicate banks and Hapag Lloyd also wanted a commitment that UASC's top shareholder Qatar would remain committed to the deal in the long term and not lower its stake in the combined group.
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Immediately after the emergency meeting, the syndicate issued a series of demands to the government, including an official apology from the presidency, the dismissal of Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar, protection from attacks against the press, and the release of detained journalists.
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Furthermore, critics say, there is a distinction between an order from a lead bank's treasury or trading operation reflecting genuine investor demand and one from the syndicate desk, which in essence is an underwriting position and therefore should not be included in the book.
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By the time top police brass gathered in 1 Police Plaza to announce the arrests last week, the case had been assigned a code name: Operation Zap, because it was the name of the former vice detective accused of running the syndicate, spelled backward.
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"Europe seems very healthy versus the US as it use to be cheaper to issue in dollars and swap to euros but in the past month that is no longer the case, so we could expect to see more transatlantic volume," the syndicate head said.
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Nonetheless, the Originator inspired John Prine's rockingest vocal, tickled the shit out of one-hit wonders the Syndicate of Sound, and brought out the very best from such unexpected-to-whodat artists as John Hammond, Ian Gomm, the Remains, the Count Bishops, Dwight Yoakam, and Helene Dixon.
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"So far we are still finding some liquidity to manage some transactions but the cash is being squeezed so we are worried about the longer-term," said Hani Bohsali, general manager of Bohsali Foods, president of the Syndicate of Importers of Foodstuffs, Consumer Products and Drinks.
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"On the biggest deals it is hard to ignore the appetite and sentiment of the biggest beasts but there is no reason why smaller deals couldn't be consumed by the more peripheral players that sometimes have to live off of the scraps," the syndicate head said.
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Hani Bohsali, general manager of Bohsali Foods and president of the Syndicate of Importers of Foodstuffs, Consumer Products and Drinks, which represents around 50 importers, said he was among businessmen who had warned of more trouble at a meeting with Central Bank governor Riad Salameh and other top bankers.
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The New York Times said on Wednesday that the editor who had chosen to publish an anti-Semitic cartoon in its international edition would be disciplined and that it had canceled the contract with the syndicate that provided the cartoon, after the newspaper drew widespread condemnation for its use of the drawing.
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Although Oracle's owner, the American billionaire Larry Ellison, is no longer as willing to invest vast sums to try to make the Cup a mainstream sporting event, he has been willing to fully finance his team and remains a strong backer, in particular of Spithill, who has faced some resistance from others inside the syndicate.
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Dubbed 'The Collective,' the syndicate includes money from Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal — Flipkart, of course, sold a majority stake to Walmart for $1003 billion last year — and VCs Salil Deshpande of Bain Capital Ventures, Matrix India trio Avnish Bajaj, Tarun Davda and Vikram Vaidyanathan, Navroz Udwadia from Falcon Edge Capital and Rahul Mehta of DST Global.
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Authorities claimed that the syndicate operated on the dark web, the portion of the internet that can only be accessed via special software or configuration settings, and involved hundreds of thousands of users as well as a small army of digital pit bosses:The gambling platform ran on the so-called dark web, which isn't indexed by traditional search engines, and only accepted cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin, according to Guangdong police.
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