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Global corruption investigations, kleptocracy, and illicit finance tracking
ICIJ's China Capital leak exposes ICBC's dealings with sanctioned oligarchs; Ukraine's prosecutor general is dismissed; Europol hits the 'Dubai Bank'; OFAC and FinCEN target scam-center finance.
This week: Martin Romualdez arrested in a $118M Philippine plunder case, a former Swiss Bankers Association chief convicted of foreign bribery, FinCEN flags $12.7B in scam-center laundering, and Ukraine's Midas…
Treasury proposes cutting Banque Misr UAE off from U.S. correspondent banking over alleged Iranian shadow banking flows; AUSTRAC investigates Western Union; Ukraine’s laundering probe reaches the presidential office; FinCEN sets…
Ukraine’s “Operation Forest Gump” reaches the Presidential Office, FinCEN fines UBS a record $125 million, Lebanon indicts ex-central bank chief Riad Salameh a third time, and DOJ sentences a “concierge…
Kazakhstan presses a $10.7 billion corruption claim against the Kashagan consortium, Daniel Kinahan faces a Dublin court after extradition from Dubai, Treasury ends beneficial ownership reporting for U.S. companies, and…
The first week of August delivered one of the most consequential stretches of financial-crime enforcement this year. The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network imposed the largest anti-money laundering penalty…
A sweeping expansion of U.S. sanctions on an Iranian shadow-shipping network leads this week's survey of international corruption enforcement, alongside a new OCCRP shell-company investigation, the year's first FCPA settlement,…
A weekly digest of international corruption: Indonesia charges a former deputy attorney general in a $278M coal-and-blackout scandal, Interpol and Europol tout major asset seizures, Treasury sanctions cartel and PCC…
This week: a Russian shadow-payment industry that advertises sanctions evasion, a Gabonese first family's Dubai property empire, U.S. Treasury actions on Sudan and Congo, FATF grey-list changes, and a shifting…
A former Cypriot president is referred for prosecution over Russian golden passports, the FATF reshuffles its grey list and hands the presidency to the UK, and Belgian prosecutors probe Wise…