Couple Accused of Laundering $4.5B in Bitcoin Tied to 2016 Hack February 9, 2022 By Sarah N. Lynch, Raphael Satter and Luc Cohen The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it has unraveled its biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft, seizing a record-shattering $3.6 billion in...
Credit Suisse Faces Charges It Let Alleged Bulgarian Cocaine Traffickers Launder Money February 8, 2022 By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi and Silke Koltrowitz Credit Suisse faced charges in a Swiss court on Monday of allowing an alleged Bulgarian cocaine trafficking gang to launder...
Credit Suisse Faces $45.5 Million Claim in Swiss Money-Laundering Trial February 2, 2022 Swiss prosecutors are pursuing around 42.4 million Swiss francs ($45.5 million) in compensation from Credit Suisse in a money-laundering trial...
Dirty Money Worried Swedbank Compliance Officers but Bosses Kept Mum: Documents January 10, 2022 By Niclas Rolander, Aaron Eglitis and Anton Wilen In the summer of 2018, a senior anti money-laundering official at Swedbank AB appeared anxious as he read reports that...
Australia’s Westpac Bank to Pay $80.6M in Penalties, Admits Charging Dead People November 30, 2021 By Adam Haigh Westpac Banking Corp. agreed to pay A$113 million ($80.6 million) in penalties after the Australian regulator alleged the lender had...
ABN AMRO Agrees to Pay $574M Fine for Failing to Tackle Money Laundering April 20, 2021 By Mike Corder THE HAGUE, Netherlands – ABN AMRO has agreed to pay 480 million euros ($574 million) as part of a settlement...
New York CFO Pleads Guilty to Laundering Scheme Involving Diamonds April 7, 2021 A New York company’s chief financial officer acknowledged stealing nearly $776,000 to invest it partly in African diamonds, according to...
Cryptocurrency Crime Drops in 2020 but ‘Decentralized Finance’ Losses Rise: Study January 29, 2021 By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss Losses from cryptocurrency theft, hacks and fraud fell 57% last year to $1.9 billion, as market participants boosted security systems,...
New Law Forces Shell Companies to Disclose Owners, Expands Whistleblower Awards January 11, 2021 By Joshua Goodman For years as a federal prosecutor in New York, Daniel R. Alonso led teams that had to search through a...
UK Fines MT Global $32 Million for Money Laundering Breaches January 8, 2021 Britain’s tax authority has slapped a record 23.8 million pound ($32.4 million) fine on MT Global Ltd, a private money...