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Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan could face the death penalty as she and dozens of other co-accused await verdicts in one of the country's biggest fraud cases over the embezzlement of $12.5 billion. IMAGES
A Moscow court continues hearing the case of a city councillor who faces up to 10 years in jail for criticising Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. Alexei Gorinov, a 60-year-old lawyer by training, was arrested in late April for spreading "knowingly false information" about the Russian army. IMAGES
Former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker arrives at Southward Crown Court in London as he is facing a prison sentence for hiding hundreds of thousands of pounds of assets after he was declared bankrupt. The 54-year-old was convicted at Southwark Crown Court earlier this month of four charges under the Insolvency Act. IMAGES
Russian President Vladimir Putin's main political opponent, Alexei Navalny, goes on trial from inside prison, in a new fraud case that could see his jail time extended by more than a decade. A video link shows Navalny dressed in prison uniform at the makeshift court inside his penal colony, speaking to his wife, Yulia Navalnaya, while guards stand on either side of them. IMAGES
Press and spectators gather outside the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in New York as the much-anticipated sex crimes trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite charged with grooming underage girls for late financier Jeffrey Epstein, is set to begin before a packed federal courthouse. IMAGES