The leaked documents come from FinCEN, which falls under the US Treasury Department and deals with international financial crime. More than four hundred independent journalists from more than eighty countries worked on their analysis. The British BBC likened the meaning of “FinCen Files” to the so-called Panama Documents, a 2016 scandal involving the Panamanian company … Read more
Banks continue to process thousands of billions in potentially criminal proceeds, kickbacks and other ‘dirty money’. This is evident from classified American documents that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) was able to investigate. – More than 2,100 documents mention more than 2,000 billion dollars (1,700 billion euros) in suspicious transactions, according to the … Read more
The businessman Fernando Gil Évora has denied having met with the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, as an emissary from Cape Verde to discuss the arrest in the African country of the Colombian Álex Saab, accused of being a front man for the Latin American president. In a statement issued, Gil Évora alluded to a … Read more
The Court of Appeal in The Hague on Friday rejected a request for challenge from former ING CEO Ralph Hamers from Simpelveld. – The Court can now continue the personal questioning of Hamers and decide, partly on the basis of his testimony, to prosecute him for a money laundering affair. NegligenceWith his request for challenge, … Read more
Deutsche Bank repeatedly helped Donald Trump out of trouble. The US Constitutional Court is debating whether the institute has to disclose documents. Is there a bomb lying there that Trump’s opponents are hoping for? At a time when nobody was the businessman Donald Trump A bank from Germany jumped in to help him borrow money. … Read more
Thursday, April 16, 2020, 10:48 AM – – HELMOND – Textile manufacturer Vlisco in Helmond has received a fine of 205,000 euros from the Public Prosecution Service. The company has done too little against crime such as money laundering and terrorist financing by customers who pay large amounts of cash. The fine has since been … Read more
Puerto Rican José Irizarry was a leading agent of the United States Drug Control Administration (DEA) in Colombia. Today he was arrested and charged with money laundering. The Colombian newspaper Time He published a year ago that Irizarry participated in the capture of dozens of drug traffickers and money launderers and was one of the … Read more
The anonymity that characterizes many cyber currencies has a negative connotation: it offers space for money launderers, which has always been a thorn in the side of the authorities. An analytics company has now set itself the task of tracing traces of missing bitcoins. • Bitcoin loot washed for billions • Binance and Huobi accounts … Read more
Tegucigalpa, Honduras U.S asked Honduras for extradition of a Honduran accused of drug trafficking, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Central American country reported on Wednesday. The spokesman for the Honduran Supreme Court, Melvin Duarte, confirmed to journalists that the new request was sent by a federal court of the United States and was … Read more
San Pedro Sula, Honduras A couple was convicted on Wednesday for the crime of money laundering for more than 180 million lempiras. Humberto Castañeda Aragón and Marianela Larios, who underwent an abbreviated procedure, were captured in October 2019 within the framework of Operation Parentela. The specific penalty of both accused the judge will announce in … Read more