Australia’s Westpac Banking Fined A$113M for Multiple Compliance Breaches April 22, 2022 An Australian court ordered Westpac Banking Corp. to pay A$113 million ($82.92 million) in penalties for multiple compliance failures across...
Cops Struggle to Keep Up With ‘Staggering’ Levels of Crypto Seizures April 13, 2022 By Ellen Milligan and David Voreacos One spring day in a village just west of London, residents saw a man being muscled into a car in...
Nigeria Accuses JPMorgan of Ignoring Red Flags for Fraud, Seeks Damages of $1.7B February 24, 2022 By Jonathan Browning Nigeria alleged JPMorgan Chase & Co. ignored “overwhelming” evidence of fraud and stark warnings from its own compliance staff as...
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...