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The Moldovan government and its British counterpart agreed on Tuesday that illicit funds confiscated by the British courts from Luca Filat, the son of former Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat, will be returned to Moldova.

Turkey's capital markets watchdog imposed fines totaling 26.4 million Turkish liras ($3.25 million) on 10 foreign financial firms for unlawful short-selling transactions.

According to a Capital Markets Board (SPK) statement, Credit Suisse Securities Europe Limited was fined $960,500, Barclays Capital Securities Limited $867,600 and Merrill Lynch BofA International was fine $778,300.


Among over 150 countries around the world, Turkey is the seventh-best place for expatriates to live and work, according to a new survey. 

More than 18,000 expats living in 163 countries were surveyed on their adopted countries' cultural, political, economic conditions by HSBC bank's Expat Explorer Report, said a statement by Turkey's Communications Directorate.

Turkey ranks seventh in the world for the expats - foreign specialists who do not work in their own country. This shows data from the Expat Explorer survey, commissioned by HSBC Bank.

The survey, which is held for the 12th consecutive year, was attended by over 18,000 people from 163 countries.

Greek cement maker Titan plans to raise 250 million euros ($290.05 million) from issuing new notes to refinance debt and pay back bank and other commercial loans, the company said on Monday.

Greece has appointed Riccardo Lambiris as the new chief executive of its privatization agency, which is trying to sell assets to comply with the terms of the country's bailouts.

A convicted al-Qaeda suspect who was detained by gendarmerie on April 19 while working as a village imam in the Central Anatolian province of Çankırı has admitted to involvement in the 2003 HSBC bombing.

Google, which has seen a slew of companies withdraw ads after they appeared alongside extremist content, said on March 21 it was introducing new tools to give firms greater control.

"We know advertisers don't want their ads next to content that doesn't align with their values," Google's chief business officer Philipp Schindler said in a post on the internet giant's blog.

In a report published Monday, HSBC bank expressed its serious doubts whether the EU-Turkey agreement on the refugee crisis could operate. The report also expressed serious reservations regarding the negative impact the agreement would have on the fragile Greek economy.

Croatia's tax administration and Office for the suppression of corruption and organised crime, USKOK, has given 14 people holding the 20 largest accounts in banks in 19 EU countries ten days to state the origin of the money and confirm if it was taxed.

Around 225 million euro are deposited in the 20 accounts, on which the owners received 6.6 million euro in interest in 2014.