Work Area: Offshore services

Deterring corruption through disclosure

Lincoln Caylor and Shaan Tolani, litigators at Bennet Jones in Canada, consider Canada’s proposed beneficial ownership registry and argue that while there will be significant issues to address, a registry with kinks to address is much better than no registry at all.

01 June 2021

Denmark charges three in Danske Bank-linked money laundering probe

Prosecutors in Denmark have charged three people with laundering billions of dollars in illicit funds through Danish companies that held accounts at Danske Bank’s Estonian branch.

21 May 2021

Guernsey fines Standard Chartered £140,000 for historic compliance failures

23 April 2021

Businessman convicted in Panama Papers case enters prison

16 April 2021

Moscow court sentences bankers over Moldovan laundromat roles

19 March 2021

Israel asks Switzerland for tax data on citizens and related companies

08 March 2021

California businessman sentenced to 12 years in prison over illegal lobbying efforts

19 February 2021

Saudi companies want to subpoena US law firm in $3.5bn embezzlement case

A group of Saudi Arabian companies wants Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft and two financial institutions to disclose information about their links to a former high-ranking Saudi official accused of embezzling billions from the state.

16 February 2021

Ex-SBM Offshore executive says he was unaware of bribery

A former executive of Dutch oil services company SBM Offshore, accused of taking part in an Iraqi bribery scheme, has told a London court that he was unaware of any illicit payments.

04 February 2021

US prosecutors target China-bound oil shipment

Federal prosecutors in Washington, DC, are attempting to seize a shipment of crude oil allegedly being transported to China at the direction of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards.

03 February 2021

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