Topic: Money laundering

Robert Wise is the fourth associate of the sanctioned Russian oligarch charged by the DOJ since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

26 April 2023

Switzerland’s highest court has clarified the circumstances where prosecutors are entitled to view materials gathered by lawyers during internal investigations for banks.

14 April 2023

Investigations consultancy Kroll and law firm Jones Day have denied committing misconduct in an investigation of Wirecard short-seller Matthew Earl.

04 April 2023

The former general counsel of Venezuela’s state oil company admitted to accepting some $11.5 million in bribes; FinCEN is looking for a new director; and two banks successfully dismissed a Helms-Burton suit for a second time.

04 April 2023

A court in Zurich had found four bankers at the shuttered Swiss subsidiary of Russian lender Gazprombank guilty of applying inadequate due diligence to the transactions of a Russian musician accused of acting as a “straw man” for Vladimir Putin’s personal wealth.

31 March 2023

The home secretary on Thursday said the UK will focus on reducing money laundering and seizing more criminal assets, combating kleptocracy and driving down sanctions evasion, and cutting fraud.

30 March 2023

Prosecutors allege that Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, bribed Chinese government officials to unfreeze accounts.

28 March 2023

In a civil complaint, the Commodity Futures and Exchange Commission fired shots at US crypto exchange Binance’s former head of compliance for allegedly flouting anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules to maximise company profits.

28 March 2023

27 March 2023

23 March 2023