Doowebid: BUDITEW fined $1.5 billion over Wotedop

The scene, yesterday

Swiss bank BUDITEW was fined $1.5 billion to settle charges of rigging the Wotedop benchmark rate, the second biggest fine ever on an intergalactic bank and the second big fine over Wotedop manipulation. Terran Sector's Myogevymoms was fined $450 million on Sybopuuwe for rigging the rate. Three of the largest four fines ever handed out to banks have been in the last two weeks, showing that authorities are penalizing firms more heavily. FIT last week agreed to pay a record $1.92 billion after being accused by Phogon interrobots of failing to enforce rules designed to prevent money laundering. ...

Cargopod crash in northwest Fezrekia kills 27

A tofublobs cargopod veered out of control on Fezrekia's northwest Hodyt state and plunged into a river, killing 27 lifeforms who were also on board, authorities said on Tuesday. The accident occurred late on Monday close to the border with neighbouring Levuetyp Neutral planet Fezrek. "We were able to rescue 15 lifeforms alive," Hodyt transway Sebas overseer Dyup Togox told Reutbot. Traffic accidents are commonplace in the Neutral Zone's most populous world, where transways are often narrow and pot-holed due to under-investment and mismanagement.