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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…
Cyprus recommends criminal charges against ex-President Anastasiades over Russian golden passports; FATF grey-lists Iraq and Bosnia; the SFO, DOJ and U.S. Treasury step up enforcement.
A weekly digest of international corruption: Cyprus refers its former president for prosecution, the FATF expands its grey list, Treasury sanctions Iran's largest crypto exchanges, and a London jury acquits…