Indian-origin man jailed in Singapore
Singapore, Sep 14: A 35-year-old Indian origin officer with Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower was jailed for five weeks on Thursday for having asked an ex-colleague from DBS Bank to access the salary information of his colleagues, according to a media report. Dinath Silvamany Muthaliyar, a Singapore citizen, who asked his former colleague Liong Yan Sin at DBS bank to access the profiles in the database containing information about customers, pleaded guilty to four counts under the Computer Misuse Act, Channel News Asia reported. Liong had access to the details due to his job as a collections officer, where he attended to queries by bank customers, and spoke to them about outstanding payments and payment plans. However, Liong was not supposed to disclose or access information outside of the parameters of his duties.Dinath, too, was a collections officer before joining the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), where he was a levy administration manager.In June 2018, Dinath asked Liong to help him find out the salary details of colleagues at MOM so that he could compare them with his own. (PTI)
PTI leaders to be declared absconders
Islamabad, Sep 14: The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) of Pakistan has started preparations to declare at least 16 leaders and workers of the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) as proclaimed offenders in two cases related to May 9 riots and publish their names in local newspapers across the country. Khan is currently in Attock jail on judicial remand, which was extended till September 26 during a special court hearing in the prison premises On the other hand, PTI co-chair and former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s bail has also been extended till September 26 by the special court which is hearing the cipher case against both him and Khan. According to the ATC, some of the 16 PTI leaders include Aslam Iqbal, Farrukh Habib and Zubair Niazi. (IANS)
US sanctions 150 Russian trades
Washington, Sep 14: The United States on Thursday is sanctioning more than 150 businesses and people from Russia to Turkiye, the United Arab Emirates and Georgia to try to crack down on evasion and deny the Kremlin access to technology, money and financial channels that fuel President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. The sanctions package is one of the biggest by the State and Treasury departments and is the latest to target people and companies in countries, notably NATO member Turkiye, that sell Western technology to Russia that could be used to bolster its war effort. The package also aims to hobble the development of Russia’s energy sector and future sources of cash, including Arctic natural gas projects, as well as mining and factories producing and repairing Russian weapons. “The purpose of the action is to restrict Russia’s defense production capacity and to reduce the liquidity it has to pay for its war,” James O’Brien, head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination, said. (AP)