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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    HSBC Holdings PLC
    Swiss regulator finds HSBC violated money laundering rules

    Finma bans bank’s Swiss subsidiary from taking on prominent public figures as clients

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  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Singapore
    Singapore secures last conviction in $2bn money laundering case

    Tenth Chinese national pleads guilty in scandal that put spotlight on financial hub’s embrace of foreign wealth

    Wang Dehai
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    British-Chinese bitcoin money launderer jailed for over 6 years

    UK case centres on one of the biggest bitcoin hauls by a law enforcement agency in the world

    Jian Wen
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Labour to outline clampdown on UK ‘dirty money’

    ‘Fresh approach’ needed, party says as it announces measures to tackle kleptocracy and corruption

    Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy
  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    How to resolve the debanking debate

    Tighter rules tend to mean louder protests when those affected feel hard done by

  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Chinese fraud victims seek return of £3bn in bitcoin seized in UK

    Group calls for help from Beijing to recover funds held by London police since money laundering investigation

    A montage with pictures of the two women
  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    Swiss private banker charged with stealing dirty money from own client

    Case is latest in a series of scandals exposing the enduring legacy of secrecy in Swiss banking

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  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    Sam Bankman-Fried
    FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud

    US court’s judgment caps the dramatic downfall of one of crypto’s most prominent stars

    Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX
  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
    Accused crypto laundering mastermind dreamt of being a Buddhist goddess

    Zhimin Qian’s spectre loomed over the trial of her ‘carer and assistant’ Jian Wen for money laundering

    A montage of a photo of Zhimin Qian and a bitcoin on a red and black background
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    FT Magazine
    The mystery of the Hampstead mansion and the £1.4bn bitcoin haul

    What were two Chinese women doing in a rented mansion in London with an astronomical amount of cryptocurrency?

  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
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    Munich prosecutor opens money laundering probe into Signa

    Preliminary investigation initiated into Bavarian developments by collapsed luxury property group

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  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    Bet365 Group Ltd
    Bet365 faces probe by Australia’s anti-money laundering watchdog

    UK gambling company is latest in sector to be targeted for scrutiny by financial crimes unit

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  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    Deborah Lehr
    The US art market is a sanctions black hole

    It currently provides an untraceable funding source for blacklisted individuals and entities

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  • Tuesday, 27 February, 2024
    Casey Michel
    In America, there is finally good news on the anti-money laundering front

    The Biden administration is making a serious and concerted effort to clamp down on the practice

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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    UAE removed from money laundering ‘grey list’

    Gulf state no longer subject to additional scrutiny by Paris-based Financial Action Task Force

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  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Deutsche Bank threatened with fines over flawed money laundering controls

    German financial watchdog rebukes lender and extends mandate of special monitor in latest setback

    CEO Christian Sewing
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
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    It is too cheap and easy to set up UK companies Premium content

    Scrutiny is a vital weapon when it comes to cracking down on opaque shell companies

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  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
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    Latvia’s ex-central bank chief sentenced to 6 years’ jail for corruption

    Ilmārs Rimšēvičs guilty of taking bribes and a fishing trip to Russia from a commercial bank

    Ilmārs Rimšēvičs
  • Monday, 18 December, 2023
    Jamie Schafer
    Gatekeepers beware: the new US corporate transparency act could be a game-changer

    Previously there were no regulations requiring lawyers and accountants to ‘know their customers’

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  • Sunday, 17 December, 2023
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    Cardinal convicted of embezzlement in landmark Vatican court case

    Giovanni Angelo Becciu was responsible for managing the Holy See’s funds

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  • Wednesday, 13 December, 2023
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    Inside the scandal plaguing the country’s former central banker, Riad Salameh

  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
    Financial fraud
    Hedge fund trader at heart of cum-ex scandal extradited to Denmark

    Briton Sanjay Shah is accused of defrauding the Scandinavian nation of $1.3bn

    Sanjay Shah
  • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
    Binance
    Binance chief resigns as crypto exchange pays $4bn in fines

    US authorities say world’s biggest cryptocurrency platform breached money laundering laws

    Changpeng Zhao
  • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
    Changes to UK supervision rules ‘risk encouraging money-laundering’

    Accounting bodies warn that most of government’s planned reforms would be counter-productive

  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    Europe Express
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    Also in this newsletter: Portugal calls a snap election as Spain moves to form a government

    Pedro Sanchez
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