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10 December 2019
Algeria jails two former prime ministers for corruption and money laundering
9 December 2019
Two jailed for running online fraud money laundering scheme from Kent corner shop
9 December 2019
Belgian lawyer found guilty in Switzerland of forgery and money laundering
9 December 2019
Syrian president’s uncle goes on trial in France for money laundering
6 December 2019
German authorities fine Deutsche Bank €15 million for AML failings
6 December 2019
Latvian authorities fine Baltic International Bank €1.56 million for AML failings
4 December 2019
Europol announces 228 arrests in global action against money laundering
3 December 2019
Dublin man jailed for seven years for laundering more than €380,000 drug proceeds
28 November 2019
Former president of the Maldives jailed for five years for money laundering
28 November 2019
Leicester man jailed for eight years for running £8.5 million money laundering
“empire” from his terraced house
26 November 2019
Westpac bank CEO resigns amid money laundering scandal
24 November 2019
Two Swiss bankers fined for failing to report suspicious transactions
21 November 2019
OneCoin lawyer Mark Scott found guilty in Manhattan of money laundering after
being paid US$50 million to move $400 million fraud proceeds
21 November 2019
European Central Bank flags AML failings at Maltese Bank of Valletta
18 November 2019
European Central Bank revokes licence of Anglo Austrian AAB Bank (formerly Meinl
Bank) over AML concerns
18 November 2019
Rene Bruelhart’s contract as head of the Vatican’s FIU is not renewed
18 November 2019
American AML expert charged in Manhattan with laundering Venezuelan drug
money
14 November 2019
Brother of missing “cryptoqueen” admits OneCoin fraud and money laundering
13 November 2019
Canning Town nightclub shut down on suspicion of fraud and money laundering
12 November 2019
Twenty-one officials of Bangladeshi co-operative company each jailed for ten years
for money laundering
11 November 2019
Hong Kong man jailed in Australia for laundering money through sham meat and
seafood exporting business
8 November 2019
Drug trafficker pleads guilty to laundering US$19 million through Bitcoin and Silk
Road
7 November 2019
Developer of “doomsday village” in Texas jailed for drug money laundering
4 November 2019
NCA recovers £8.1 million property portfolio after proceeds of crime investigation
30 October 2019
Trades in online game Counter-Strike found to be “nearly all” money laundering
30 October 2019
Kent man jailed for four years for money laundering
29 October 2019
Whistleblower sues accountancy firm EY over Dubai money laundering scandal
28 October 2019
Major accountancy firm EY implicated in drug money laundering investigation
28 October 2019
OFSI announces £146,341 penalty against network company for breaches of Syrian
sanctions
24 October 2019
US regulator FINRA fines BNP Paribas US$15 million for AML failings
24 October 2019
Money laundering targeting UK “prestige services” such as private schools and
interior designers
18 October 2019
Three London letting agents given prison sentences for money laundering following
£50,000 fraud
17 October 2019
UBS pays more than €10 million to settle Italian money laundering probe
16 October 2019
Leicester man found guilty of laundering £11 million through his small business and
legitimate bureaux de change
15 October 2019
Former Morgan Stanley banker jailed in Switzerland for Greek money laundering
14 October 2019
New Zealand money transmitter fined NZ$4 million for AML failings
11 October 2019
Online gambling operator Betfred fined £322,000 for AML failings
2 October 2019
Five Vatican employees suspended during investigation into “financial irregularities”
involving expensive properties in London
2 October 2019
Manchester court gives 6½ year jail sentence to fugitive Pakistani money launderer
2 October 2019
Yorkshireman jailed for six years for money laundering after £850,000 cash found
hidden in his van at the Channel Tunnel
1 October 2019
Newcastle fashion designer jailed for tax fraud and money laundering
1 October 2019
Swedbank executives fired during money laundering investigation
30 September 2019
Money launderers jailed for role in £1 million ‘rare earth’ metal fraud
30 September 2019
San Diego dark web vendors plead guilty to cryptocurrency money laundering
29 September 2019
Swiss auction off supercar collection of Teddy Obiang (money laundering Equatorial
Guinean PEP)
28 September 2019
Guyanese private jet pilot jailed for thirteen years for drug trafficking and money
laundering
27 September 2019
Lancashire milkman given suspended prison sentence for money laundering
26 September 2019
ABN Amro hit by Dutch money laundering investigation
25 September 2019
Former head of Danske Bank in Estonia found dead
21 September 2019
Indian Enforcement Directorate confiscates chimpanzees and marmosets in money
laundering investigation
18 September 2019
Latvian regulator fines PrivatBank €1 million for AML failings
13 September 2019
Money laundering couple ordered to pay £10 million over Reading HBOS fraud
12 September 2019
San Marino seizes €19 million from bank accounts of president of the Republic of
Congo and his close associates after money laundering investigation
12 September 2019
UK government publishes economic crime plan for the next three years
9 September 2019
VAT fraud gang members jailed for £34 million theft and money laundering
6 September 2019
Ex-Goldman Sachs banker convicted in 2013 of money laundering now ordered by
London court to pay £7.3 million
4 September 2019
London money transmitter fined £7.8 million for AML failings
3 September 2019
UK’s NCA recovers £472,740 from convicted money launderer who claimed he had
won the Pakistan lottery 123 times
3 September 2019
Fugitive London businessman Richard Baldwin sentenced to five years and eight
months for money laundering
28 August 2019
Malaysian ex-PM goes on trial again for money laundering related to 1MDB scandal
27 August 2019
Thai court upholds money laundering convictions for Dutch man (who made money
from coffee shops in the Netherlands) and Thai wife
23 August 2019
Qatari bank under investigation by UK FCA for terrorist financing links
21 August 2019
Student money mule laundered money defrauded from flood victim
20 August 2019
Rabobank decides to stop taking on professional football club clients because of
“unacceptable risks of money laundering, corruption, fraud and other abuses”
16 August 2019
TalkTalk hacker sentenced for computer miusue offences and money laundering
involving crypocurrencies
14 August 2019
UK’s NCA granted largest-ever AFOs under CFA
10 August 2019
Pope approves new statutes for Vatican Bank
5 August 2019
Tanzanian investigative journalist charged with organised crime, tax offences and
money laundering
1 August 2019
Former psychic jailed for seven years in Ireland for laundering €1.6 million proceeds
of fraud
31 July 2019
Ladbrokes Coral fined £5.9 million for social responsibility and AML failings
31 July 2019
Sussex criminal jailed for laundering proceeds from the sale of black-market
medicines
26 July 2019
UK gang jailed for laundering £1 million in cocaine and ketamine cash
25 July 2019
Georgian bank chairman and deputy resign after being charged with money
laundering
21 July 2019
Robert Morgenthau, ground-breaking white collar crime DA in New York [and my
legal hero], dies aged 99
21 July 2019
HMRC call centre worker sentenced for tax fraud and money laundering
18 July 2019
UK’s NCA obtains serious organised crime UWO for property worth £10 million
17 July 2019
US judges sentences Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo to life in prison plus thirty
years for drug offences and money laundering
15 July 2019
Texas oilman jailed for eighteen years for laundering the proceeds of investment
fraud
15 July 2019
Latvian bank fined one million euros for AML failings
12 July 2019
UK launches new Economic Crime Plan, including investment by major banks in
improving the SARs regime
10 July 2019
Pimping and money laundering network involving eleven EU countries and four
others dismantled with Eurojust’s support
9 July 2019
UK Charity Commission announces investigation into eight charities suspected of
being used for money laundering
9 July 2019
UK’s Financial Conduct Authority publishes its “AML Annual Report 2018/19”
9 July 2019
Tunisian presidential candidate charged with money laundering
7 July 2019
Maltese regulator fines Satabank €3 million for AML failings
5 July 2019
West Midlands gang of eight jailed for modern slavery offences and money
laundering
5 July 2019
Man jailed in London for online sale of counterfeit medication and money laundering
through Jewish charity accounts
5 July 2019
French anti-semitic comedian sentenced for tax evasion and money laundering
4 July 2019
Producer of “The Wolf of Wall Street” arrested on charges of money laundering
2 July 2019
Santander fined 9 million krone [about £838,000] in Norway for AML failings
2 July 2019
Ellesmere Port “gangster’s moll” sentenced for laundering proceeds of drug
trafficking
1 July 2019
Fugitive convicted in London of laundering £10 million fraud proceeds through
Jewish charities
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