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    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Lebanon’s central bank chief in court to face money-laundering allegations

      Riad Salameh for the first time appears in front of European investigators probing the accusations

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Financial fraud
      Exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui arrested on US fraud charges

      Prosecutors allege he ‘led a complex conspiracy’ to bilk online followers out of more than $1bn

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      White collar crime
      Small UK companies set to be excluded from anti-fraud legislation

      MPs and anti-corruption campaigners criticise plans to limit scope of new ‘failure to prevent’ offence

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      Vladimir Putin
      Swiss prosecutors charge four bankers with helping to hide Putin’s millions

      Employees of Gazprombank’s subsidiary accused of helping Kremlin-connected figure open accounts

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      African economy
      South Africa and Nigeria put on anti-money laundering ‘grey list’

      Global watchdog says Africa’s two biggest economies need to do more to fight financial crime

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      Yevgeny Prigozhin
      Russian warlord passed UK money laundering checks with mother’s utility bill

      Law firm relied on gas invoice when scrutinising Wagner group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin as prospective client

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Barclays PLC
      Barclays probed by UK regulator over anti-money laundering systems

      FCA review is latest problem for lender that has struggled with compliance missteps in recent years

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      Tax evasion and avoidance
      Thousands of offshore companies miss UK property register deadline

      List set up to tackle estimated £100bn of illicit financing often channelled through British real estate

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
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      Fall of Asia’s gambling kingpin augurs change for Macau industry

      Alvin Chau’s jailing comes as Beijing cracks down on money laundering and capital flight

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      White collar crime
      UK to make ‘failure to prevent fraud’ a criminal offence

      Government will target law firms and accountants in new bill

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      Cryptocurrencies
      Crypto lender Nexo under investigation in Bulgaria

      Sofia prosecutor’s office says it is probing possible money laundering and other criminal offences

    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
      Danske Bank AS
      Danske Bank to pay $2bn penalty for defrauding US banks

      Denmark’s largest lender pleads guilty to resolve one of the biggest money-laundering scandals in years

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Santander UK PLC
      Santander UK fined £108mn for anti-money laundering failures

      Bank’s poor management created ‘prolonged and severe risk’ of financial crime, says regulator

    • Saturday, 3 December, 2022
      UK crime
      UK crime agency arrests wealthy Russian businessman at London home

      58-year-old man and two others held by NCA’s anti-kleptocracy unit

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The ECJ’s gift to oligarchs under sanctions

      A ruling that limits access to corporate registries is a blow in the fight against Putin

    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Access to EU public registers ends: ‘We are going back to era of corporate secrecy’

      Campaigners say invalidation of member states’ databases will hinder efforts to tackle abuse of ownership rules

    • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
      EU financial regulation
      European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling

      Anger among transparency campaigners as court finds access to data on corporate ownership interferes with right to privacy

    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
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      Regulators’ demands, a crackdown on money laundering and sanctions on Russia are driving growth for ComplyAdvantage

    • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
      German police raid UBS over Usmanov money laundering probe

      Russian businessman rejects allegations as bank’s Frankfurt and Munich branches are searched

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      Deutsche Bank AG
      Deutsche Bank threatened with fines as deadlines to fix controls approach

      Dispute between lender and German regulator over improving money-laundering measures escalates further

    • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
      Danske Bank AS
      Danske Bank braced for money-laundering fines of $2bn

      Shares in Denmark’s biggest bank jump 11 per cent as investors hail end of uncertainty over scandal

    • Monday, 24 October, 2022
      Credit Suisse Group AG
      Credit Suisse fined €238mn in French money laundering deal

      Settlement resolves legal case ahead of Swiss lender’s major restructuring this week

    • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
      Westminster council plans crack down on ‘dirty money’

      London local authority vows to combat ‘secret’ web of opaque property ownership and calls for tougher penalties

    • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
      Spain
      Spanish police arrest ‘one of Europe’s biggest money launderers’

      Suspect used a sham vodka brand and underground banking system to process up to €350,000 a day of dirty funds

    • Monday, 12 September, 2022
      Entain PLC
      Australian watchdog investigates Entain over anti-money laundering controls

      Owner of betting sites Ladbrokes and Coral under scrutiny

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