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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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