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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaSecurity raised for Champions League ties after threatPublished4 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Security is being reinforced ahead of Wednesday’s quarter-final in ParisBy Sean SeddonBBC NewsSecurity will be increased at Champions League games this week after a media outlet supporting the Islamic State group published threats against venues.A pro-IS media channel has published multiple posters calling for attacks at stadiums hosting quarter-final ties on Tuesday and Wednesday.Uefa said it was aware of the threats but said games in Madrid, Paris and London would go ahead as planned.Ministers in both France and Spain have confirmed enhanced security measures.French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said there would be “considerably reinforced” security measures in place when PSG play Barcelona in Paris on Wednesday.Mr Darmanin continued: “I will remind you that only 10 days ago, IS shared a picture of the Munich stadium and said action should be taken against sports venues that host football games – although all sports can be targeted. Given how important the Champions League is for football, we are of course talking to our partners.”Two quarter-finals are due to be held in Madrid this week. Real Madrid host Manchester City on Tuesday, while Atletico Madrid take on Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday.Pilar Alegría, Spain’s sports minister, has issued a message of “calm” ahead of the games in Madrid and said “more than 2,000 police and civil guard officers” are being deployed. A spokesman for European football’s governing body said: “Uefa is aware of alleged terrorist threats made towards this week’s Uefa Champions League matches and is closely liaising with the authorities at the respective venues.”All matches are planned to go ahead as scheduled with appropriate security arrangements in place.”Live: Champions league build-up and football latestThe pro-IS channel called for violent attacks and featured images of the Emirates Stadium in London, the Bernabeu and Metropolitano Stadiums in Madrid, as well as the Parc des Princes Stadium in Paris. Arsenal play Bayern Munich in London on Tuesday. Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan said: “We’re aware of online and media reports in relation to calls to target matches across Europe and here in London. “However, I want to reassure the public that we have a robust policing plan in place for tonight’s match and we continue to work closely alongside the club’s security team to ensure that the match passes peacefully.”Another image shared last week depicted the Allianz Arena in Munich, which is due to host Bayern Munich’s return leg against Arsenal next week.The threatening jihadist images shared this week- some of which feature an image of a masked gunman – were posted by pro-IS media groups not officially linked to the organisation itself.However, it is thought the directive to publish the threats may have come from IS itself, as its leadership recently hinted at close co-ordination between official media operatives and online supporters.Material seeking to incite attacks on channels with long-standing ties to the group have increased in the wake of last month’s Moscow concert hall attack, according to specialists at the BBC’s Monitoring service.More on this storyFour in court as Moscow attack death toll nears 140Published25 MarchTop StoriesLive. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityBusinessMarket DataEconomyYour MoneyCompaniesTechnology of BusinessCEO SecretsArtificial IntelligenceSam Bankman-Fried: Disgraced ‘Crypto King’ to be sentencedPublished1 hour agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty Images/BloombergBy Natalie ShermanBusiness reporter, New YorkSam Bankman-Fried, the former billionaire crypto boss who was convicted of fraud and money laundering last year, will return to court in New York on Thursday to be sentenced for his crimes.It is certain the 32-year-old will be going to jail; what is not known is how long for.The moment has revived debate about the extent of his crimes – and what punishment might fit. His legal team have called for leniency, but prosecutors are seeking 40 to 50 years in prison.They say such a sentence is warranted for someone who lied to investors and banks, and stole billions in deposits from customers of his now-bankrupt crypto exchange, FTX.His defence team has proposed five to 6.5 years, accusing the government of adopting “a medieval view of punishment” by insisting on a lengthy term behind bars for a non-violent, first-time criminal.The question has generated hundreds of pages of letters from former FTX customers, family, friends of his parents – even complete strangers – trying to sway Judge Lewis Kaplan, the federal justice who will decide his fate.”He has shown no remorse so why would any judge show any mercy?” said Sunil Kavuri, a British investor who had more than $2m worth of holdings on the exchange when it collapsed, and one of the people mobilising former customers to share their experience with the court. Image caption, Sunil Kavuri faces a long and uncertain wait to retrieve any of his investmentFTX’s collapse in 2022 was a stunning fall for Bankman-Fried, who had become a billionaire and business celebrity promoting the firm, a platform people could use to deposit and trade crypto.It attracted millions of customers, before rumours of financial trouble sparked a run on deposits. In November 2023, a US jury found Bankman-Fried had stolen billions in customer money from the exchange ahead of the collapse to buy property, make political donations and use for other investments.Many of those customers now appear poised to recover significant sums, under a plan being developed in the separate bankruptcy case.Under that proposal, former customers could receive money based on what their holdings were worth at the time the exchange collapsed.In court filings, the defence for Bankman-Fried, who is expected to appeal his conviction, has argued that such recovery warrants a lighter sentence. They said it proved that “money has always been available” which “would be impossible if [FTX’s] assets had disappeared into Sam’s personal pockets”. But the repayment plan has left many former customers outraged, since they will miss out on the crypto rebound that has occurred since. John Ray, the lawyer leading FTX through bankruptcy and a critic of Bankman-Fried, noted the concerns in his own letter to court.”Make no mistake; customers, non-governmental creditors, governmental creditors, and non-insider stockholders have suffered and continue to suffer,” he wrote to the court, arguing that the claims of minimal loss were a sign that Bankman-Fried continued to live “a life of delusion”. Former FTX customers interviewed by the BBC said they were offended by the blithe dismissal of their problems, and urged the judge to reject calls for leniency.”The people who are saying this are not in a position like I’m in, where you’ve lost everything,” said Arush Sehgal, a 38-year-old tech entrepreneur living in Barcelona, who, with his wife, is one of the exchange’s biggest individual creditors, with about $4m worth in savings in dollars and bitcoin at FTX when it collapsed. Image source, Arush SehgalHe is one of the customers suing over the current bankruptcy plan, which he said amounted to a “second crime” against Bankman-Fried’s customers. Angela Chang, of Vancouver, a 36-year-old who worked in software, said she had about $250,000 deposited in dollars with FTX when it collapsed. She said she feared the harm done to FTX customers was being discounted because they were in the crypto industry.”People think that crypto is criminal and so they have sympathy for this guy …. But I’m not a criminal,” she said, describing how the fall of the firm threw her into depression and left her running up credit card debt. Facing a cash crunch, she ultimately sold a portion of a claim to an investor.Columbia Law professor Daniel Richman said the scale of the crime was rarely as contested as in this case.But he said decisions are often shaped more by other issues, including a judge’s own impressions of the defendant, and what it would take to deter him from further crimes. In this case, Judge Kaplan, a veteran of the court system who has presided over a slew of high profile trials involving public figures such as Donald Trump and actor Kevin Spacey, has already proven to be sceptical of Bankman-Fried’s actions, revoking his bail last year after finding he was trying to intimidate other witnesses. “Any judge or lawyer will tell you that one of the best things the defendant can do before being sentences is really really show he’s on the right path, show some remorse and show some degree of self-knowledge as to his offence,” Prof Richman said. “Here you not only have a defendant who went to trial but you have one who really, at least the judge believed, was obstructive prior to trial,” he said, adding that it would be “really surprising” for Judge Kaplan to render a sentence anything like the defence request. FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried believed in ‘effective altruism’. What is it?Convicted ‘Crypto King’ faces decades in jailEveryone got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried’s big gambleSince the 1980s, the US has significantly increased the length of its official recommendations for jail time for white collar criminals.Though judges frequently depart from the guidelines, introducing wide variability, “the risk of harshness is greater than in most countries” – particularly for high-profile cases, Prof Richman said.In her own appeal to the judge, Barbara Fried, Bankman-Fried’s mother and a former law professor, noted the “punitive nature” of the US justice system “which makes us an extreme outlier among democracies”. “I have no illusions about the redemptive power of prisons,” she wrote. “Being consigned to prison for decades will destroy Sam as surely as would hanging him.”Related TopicsInternational BusinessCryptocurrencyMore on this storyEveryone got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried’s big gamblePublished3 November 2023Convicted ‘Crypto King’ faces decades in jailPublished3 November 2023Top StoriesDivers recover bodies in Baltimore bridge collapse watersPublished2 hours agoGirl, 10, left inoperable after surgery axed seven timesPublished7 hours agoKing sends ‘hand of friendship’ recorded messagePublished3 hours agoFeaturesThe Papers: Sewage ‘outrage’ and ‘King calls for kindness’ The families borrowing to pay for careFather of three among Baltimore bridge victimsUS guns pour into Haiti, fuelling surge in violenceLost IRA film shows planting and detonation of bombWhy some Tory MPs are stepping downI’m not ashamed of who I am any more, says LionessAfter Moscow attack, migrants from Central Asia hit by backlashWhy is sewage released into rivers and the sea?Elsewhere on the BBCNew lives, new loves and new merciless enemiesSuperman and Lois Lane face one of their biggest challenges… raising two teenage boysAttributioniPlayerThe powerful emotional impact of Pink Floyd’s musicShine On You Crazy Diamond has helped people through their hardest timesAttributionSoundsRadiohead meets Sons of Kemet in this alt-rock supergroupSee The Smile on the 6 Music Festival stageAttributioniPlayerA daughters mysterious disappearanceJoan Lawrence shares how she found out her daughter had disappeared in the run up to Mother’s DayAttributionSoundsMost Read1Gogglebox star, 40, dies after fall from height2Man seriously injured after stabbing on London train3Pupil behaviour getting worse, say teachers4King sends ‘hand of friendship’ recorded message5Girl, 10, left inoperable after surgery axed seven times6Son ‘numb’ as whole-life killer may be released7Sewage ‘outrage’ and ‘King calls for kindness’8France to sue teen over headscarf row claim9Police reassess decision on Rayner allegations10Disgraced ‘Crypto King’ Bankman-Fried to be sentenced](https://newsinsightplus.com/wp-content/uploads/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/38FE/production/_133009541_gettyimages-1258710788.jpg)
![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaDani Alves: Ex-Brazil footballer set to be released pending appealPublished2 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, ReutersImage caption, Dani Alves was first arrested in January 2023 and has been in detention since thenInternational football star Dani Alves can be conditionally released from jail after he paid bail of €1m (£853,000).Alves was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison last month, after a court found him guilty of raping a woman in a Barcelona nightclub in 2022.On Monday, the court in Spain gave the former Barcelona and Brazil footballer permission to leave jail pending his appeal, after he made the stated bail.The 40-year-old has been held in pre-trial detention since January 2023.”We hereby inform you that the deposit of Daniel Alves’ bail has been registered in the accounts of the 21st section of the Barcelona Court,” said a statement.However, a lawyer for the rape victim has called the decision to allow him to leave jail “a scandal”.Speaking last week, Ester Garcia said: “To me, it’s a scandal that they let a person who they know can get a million euros in no time walk free.”Ms Garcia told RAC1 radio she was “outraged and dissatisfied” with the ruling, adding it was “a justice [system] for the rich” and that she would lodge an appeal.The player has served about a quarter of his sentence for rape to this point – a fact highlighted by Alves’ lawyer when his conditional release was requested earlier this month. The conditions for his release include handing over both his Brazilian and Spanish passports so he is unable to leave Spain. He must also appear before the court on a weekly basis.The court additionally imposed a restraining order, preventing him from approaching the victim.The decision was not unanimous due to a dissenting vote from one of the judges.Footballer Dani Alves guilty of nightclub rapeDuring the trial in February, prosecutors said Alves and his friend had bought champagne for three young women before Alves lured one of them to a bathroom in the VIP area of the club.They argued that it was at this point he turned violent, forcing the woman to have sex despite her repeated requests to leave.Alves had maintained she could have left “if she wanted to”. However, the court found that she did not consent.Spanish law was changed recently to enshrine the importance of consent under the so-called “Only Yes is Yes” principle.In a statement, the court said there was evidence other than the victim’s testimony that proved that she had been raped.It said Alves had “abruptly grabbed the complainant” and thrown her to the ground. He had then raped her while preventing her from moving as “the complainant said no and wanted to leave”, it added.The woman said the rape had caused her “anguish and terror”, and one of her friends who was with her on the night described how the 23-year-old had cried “uncontrollably” after leaving the bathroom.Alves changed his testimony on a number of occasions.He first denied knowing his accuser, only to claim later that he had met her in the toilet but that nothing had happened between them.He then changed his version of events again, saying that they had had consensual sex. “We were both enjoying ourselves,” he alleged.Alves played more than 400 times for Barcelona, winning six league titles and three Champions Leagues across two spells with the club. He was also part of Brazil’s 2022 World Cup squad.He has won trophies playing for Sevilla, Juventus and PSG, and is among Brazil’s most capped internationals, with 126 appearances.Related TopicsSpainBarcelonaMore on this storyFootballer Dani Alves guilty of nightclub rapePublished22 FebruaryFootballer Dani Alves’s rape trial begins in SpainPublished5 FebruaryEx-defender Alves’ trial set for February 2024AttributionSportPublished20 December 2023Prosecutor seeks nine-year prison term for AlvesAttributionSportPublished23 November 2023Top StoriesProsecutors ‘correct’ to accept Nottingham killer’s pleas, review findsPublished13 minutes agoLive. Murderers can get away with murder – Nottingham victim’s motherTwo men guilty of footballer Cody Fisher’s nightclub murderPublished30 minutes agoFeaturesJewish settlers set their sights on Gaza beachfrontSay one thing, do another? 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