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TikTok craze is minting celebrities and ruining lives in India

Bloomberg Arpita Chaudhary, a newly recruited police constable in India’s western Gujarat state, became an overnight celebrity after posting a clip of her 15-second gambol — clad in her civvies — on the smash-hit social video app, TikTok. Then she paid the price. A snippet of her gyrating to a Bollywood song against the backdrop of a prison cell went …

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US discusses Goldman-1MDB settlement below $2 billion

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc could end up paying less than $2 billion to resolve US criminal and regulatory probes over its role in raising money for scandal-ridden Malaysian investment fund 1MDB, said three people familiar with the negotiations. The justice department and other federal agencies, in internal discussions held in recent weeks, have weighed seeking penalties between $1.5 billion …

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Deutsche Bank’s big raid last year settled with $16.6mn fine

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG was given a small fine as a result of a case that led to a big raid on its headquarters a year ago. Frankfurt prosecutors completed their probe in a case of suspected money laundering and ordered the lender to pay 15 million euros ($16.6 million) for failing to flag suspicious transactions in time and lacking …

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