Work Area: Terrorist financing

Two-thirds of the DOJ’s corporate criminal resolutions in the past seven months have implicated questions of national security, the senior DOJ official said.

03 May 2023

26 April 2023

In a round-up of the latest sanctions developments, two businesses have pleaded guilty to conspiring to breach US sanctions against Iran, and Canada has purportedly set its sights on the assets of a sanctioned Russian airline.

19 April 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

“National security risk should be vaulting up the corporate compliance risk chart because it's going to be more and more the subject of attention from the Department of Justice,” a senior DOJ official said.

01 March 2023

The DOJ has twice warned the Swedish multinational it had breached a $1 billion bribery settlement reached with US authorities in 2019.

12 January 2023

The families of US citizens who were killed in a series of terrorist attacks throughout Europe and the Middle East have filed suits against French cement producer LaFarge over payments it made to ISIS and affiliated groups.

12 January 2023

The DOJ declined to prosecute aerospace company Safran for bribery; a former risk director for the Ecuadorian police pension fund will spend five years in prison for taking bribes; two current Ericsson executives were accused of approving protection payments to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.

03 January 2023

15 December 2022

Australia’s financial watchdog has investigated the casino operator since June 2021 and identified “a multitude of issues” with Star Entertainment’s AML compliance.

30 November 2022