All news on the topic: Money laundering

A massive oil kraken with roots in Azerbaijan has spread its tentacles over much of the world, including Russia, Britain, Turkey, Malta, Switzerland, and other countries.

A significant financial crime case has recently made headlines after a Chinese woman involved in an international fraud scheme confessed to possessing illegally obtained cryptocurrency valued in the billions.

Officers from the Constabulary’s Foreign National Offender (FNO) Unit and Protecting Vulnerable People Exploitation Teams (PVPE) joined immigration, HMRC, and Trading Standards colleagues in targeting stores across Warrington linked to immigration crime and the sale of illegal tobacco, vapes, and cigarettes.

London police said they have dismantled a criminal gang suspected of smuggling 40,000 stolen mobile phones to China in their largest operation against phone theft to date, resulting in 46 arrests over the last two weeks.

Since April 2023, a number of Ukrainian investigators have been raising alarm: Nykyta Izmaylov—a Russian citizen with a Ukrainian passport, who was recently a top financier of Parimatch, is now appearing in money laundering schemes through N1 Management and SportBank.

Montenegro’s Constitutional Court has temporarily suspended a ruling to extradite Wang Shuiming, a man who was previously convicted in Singapore’s largest ever money laundering case and is currently wanted on separate charges in China.

Montenegro’s Special State Prosecutor’s Office has filed an indictment against five additional suspects accused of belonging to an international cocaine smuggling group dismantled in Operation “General,” in July last year—one of the largest international crackdowns on cocaine trafficking at the time.

Two citizens of Azerbaijan were involved in a scheme to import illegal migrants from Asia into Ukraine.

A crypto mastermind who had dreams of being a "Goddess" has pleaded guilty to money laundering offences after £5.5 billion in Bitcoin was seized.

There are about 2,000 call centres in Kyiv, scamming thousands of people out of their money every day. This statistic is provided by the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine.

Five suspects were arrested and assets frozen during coordinated searches in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, and Bulgaria.

Vladimir Antonov, the former owner of the Lithuanian bank Snoras and the Latvian Krājbanka, has once again found himself at the centre of a high-profile scandal.

In 2023, Rza Talibov liquidated assets amid a crackdown on his father’s oppressive regime in Nakhchivan, an autonomous region of Azerbaijan. Now, he has regained control of a luxury hotel and another property on the Black Sea coast of Georgia.

The story started with a tax audit, which led to the company "Favbet" being subjected to penalties totaling nearly ten million hryvnias.

In April 2025, Oleksandr Horbunenko, a businessman and co-owner of the company «Agro Gas Trading», was detained in the US state of Florida.

France’s financial crimes office is probing ex-Lebanese premier Najib Mikati and his brother for alleged fraud.

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned the Los Mayos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, including the leader of its armed wing, Juan Jose Ponce Felix, known as “El Ruso.”

The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday announced the arrest of a local currency exchange owner accused of laundering more than $660 million, calling it the country’s largest money-laundering scheme to date.

Europol-supported operations in Spain and Portugal have seized more than 4 tonnes of cocaine and led to over 60 arrests between November 2024 and September 2025.

Two men from San Fernando Valley have been charged with orchestrating a $611 million scheme to export fraudulently obtained consumer electronics and gift cards, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Newly declassified FBI files released Tuesday by Sen. Chuck Grassley reveal more bribery allegations involving former President Joe Biden and ex-first son Hunter Biden that may have never been fully investigated.

Georgia’s former Defence Minister, Juansher Burchuladze, has been arrested on charges of money laundering and abuse of power following an investigation linking him to a criminal case involving his former deputy, brother-in-law, and another high-ranking state official, the country’s State Security Service announced Thursday.

Turkish authorities on Thursday seized Can Holding, a powerful conglomerate with major interests in media and education, as part of a sweeping investigation into alleged money laundering, tax evasion, and organized crime.

In the courts of Ukraine, a case has been dragging on for over a year that could become the biggest financial scandal in the field of gambling and payment services. It concerns the lawsuit of LLC «BC «Favbet» against LLC «Diamond Pay» regarding the recovery of almost 400 million hryvnias.