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An unnamed source told Bloomberg that the New York Department of Financial Services has filed a petition with a US Senate committee to collect pertinent documents that would prove Credit Suisse Group's guilt in aiding Americans to evade paying taxes.

Mothers of Srebrenica, an interest group that represented the survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, filed a civil claim against the government of the Netherlands for the failure of its Dutch battalion to protect the victims who sought their aid in the area's safe zone during the time of the attack led by General Ratko Mladic.

Assistant US attorneys have submitted a motion for presiding US District Judge Laura Taylor Swain to give her approval to the $900 million it is seeking to impose on SAC Capital Advisors LP as part of their agreement to settle insider trading charges.