Topic: Asset freezing

24 May 2021

Malaysia is targeting Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan as part of a broad legal campaign to recover over $23 billion in funds allegedly misappropriated from sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.

10 May 2021

France’s central bank said the company’s use of faulty anti-money laundering software hampered its efforts to spot potentially illicit funds.

05 May 2021

US authorities have seized a ship allegedly involved in a scheme to provide North Korea with over $1.5 million worth of oil in violation of sanctions.

26 April 2021

The state of Lagos, the home of Nigeria’s financial centre, has established an investigative body to root out corruption among public officials.

20 April 2021

07 April 2021

23 March 2021

A judge at London’s High Court has ruled that Clyde & Co can ignore the court’s prior order to transfer funds in an escrow account to Saudi energy company PetroSaudi to avoid the risk of US prosecution.

26 February 2021

25 February 2021

Lawyers for energy company PetroSaudi have claimed that US prosecutors are trying to subvert UK money laundering legislation by interfering in a civil dispute with Venezuela’s state-owned energy company.

23 February 2021