All news on the topic: Money laundering

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Police kill Paraguayan deputy allegedly linked to organized crime
Paraguayan police killed a parliamentarian in a violent region of the country during a shootout that erupted in an overnight raid on his house where officers and prosecutors had arrived to search for evidence of his involvement in drug trafficking and money laundering.
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Cryptocurrency money laundering is increasing in Brazil
Police in São Paulo have frozen bank accounts holding over a billion dollars in an anti-money laundering operation that highlights the growing use of cryptocurrency by Brazil’s most powerful prison gang...
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Exposing Connectum and Russian payment processor Hawex
FCA-regulated payment institution Connectum was a notorious scam facilitator and money launderer for the fraudulent Israeli broker scene. It processed payments for the cybercrime organization of the convicted Israeli Gal Barak.
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Singapore charges former bankers with aiding $2.2 billion money laundering ring
Singapore charged two bankers Thursday for their alleged role in abetting clients responsible for a US$2.2 billion money laundering ring, marking the first time that criminal charges have been laid against finance professionals since the scandal came to light.
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The UAE has suspended 32 gold refineries as part of an anti-money laundering investigation
The United Arab Emirates suspended this week operations in 32 of its gold refineries after inspections revealed that its gold sector had committed hundreds of anti-money laundering violations.
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Dirty money flows into the world’s most powerful banks
Thousands of secret suspicious activity reports offer a never-before-seen picture of corruption and complicity — and how the government lets it flourish.
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Bookmaker mafia at Putin’s court — how Umar Kremlev and Alexey Rubezhnoi monopolized the betting industry
An exploration of how the president’s bodyguard and a notorious criminal from the Moscow suburbs are amassing billions in betting money
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HSBC’s Swiss private banking arm breached money-laundering rules, regulator finds
Finma watchdog says bank failed to carry out adequate checks of two high-risk business relationships
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DoJ accuses far-right Epoch Times of being money-laundering operation
Media firm at center of scam involving about $67m, justice department alleges as it announces indictment of CFO Bill Guan
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Spain investigates Equatoguinean minister for bribery and money laundering
Spain is investigating the son of Equatorial Guinea’s ruler, Teodoro Obiang, for his alleged involvement in a money laundering and tax fraud network that has whitewashed millions of dollars from bribes paid by a Portuguese company to which he awarded a construction contract in the African country.
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The $2bn dirty-money case that rocked Singapore
A Singaporean court has begun handing out sentences in a sensational case, which saw 10 Chinese nationals charged for laundering $2.2bn (£1.8bn) earned from criminal activities abroad.
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Timur Turlov’s Freedom Finance pyramid launders billions for Nazarbayev clans and sanctioned Russian oligarchs
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, after facing his first serious test, learned an important truth: governing slowly and leisurely, without making any changes and maintaining an oath of loyalty to Nursultan Nazarbayev, won’t succeed.
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How WhiteBIT and Volodymyr Nosov turned Ukraine’s “digital future” into a crypto fraud playground for laundering Russian money
’Wall Street ’hustlers’ – what a surprise’, says the heroine of the movie ’Dump Money’, released in September 2023, which tells the true story of small investors’ struggle with the big players on the American stock market.
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AST Agroholding accuses Alliance Bank of fraud: fertilizer loan issued, goods never delivered
The agricultural holding and its management have never been linked to Viktor Medvedchuk or Oksana Marchenko, do not know them personally, and have no business or personal ties with them, UNN reports, citing TSN.
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Timur Turlov: Kazakh “billionaire” or frontman for a multibillion-dollar laundering machine?
Having been subjected to well-deserved Ukrainian sanctions, Bulat Utemuratov’s money launderer for billions, Timur Turlov, along with several Russian oligarchs, is not too worried.
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Evgeny Renge and his coal dust laundromat: phantom factories, shell firms and billions in offshore accounts
How the coal dust of Kiselevsk transforms into millions of dollars in London with the help of Evgeny Renge
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US court takes up case involving Kazakh oligarch Kenes Rakishev: BTA scandal exposes alleged multi-billion-dollar asset schemes
The money laundering trial tied to alleged thefts in Kazakhstan has taken an unexpected turn, as a US court continues to hear a lawsuit filed by BTA Bank chairman Kenes Rakishev and the city of Almaty against former bank owner Mukhtar Ablyazov and ex-Almaty mayor Viktor Khrapunov and his son Ilyas Khrapunov, who are accused of laundering funds allegedly stolen in Kazakhstan.
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Fugitive Russian oligarch Alexey Fedorychev linked to corruption and fraud operates Ukrainian grain terminal
A con artist with years of experience has settled in Ukraine, or rather, not settled personally, but has launched his usual «business» here.
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Former AMCU officials Oleksii Abasov and Vitalii Abasov linked to a scheme for siphoning millions of dollars through offshore companies
Two skilled fraudsters and embezzlers, Oleksii Abasov and his brother Vitalii Abasov, continue to profit from the impoverished people of Ukraine.