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Money laundering

  • Thursday, 23 October, 2025
    Former Citi banker jailed over role in Singapore money-laundering scandal

    Case resulted in city-state tightening regulations around family offices

    Wang Qiming, wearing a hooded sweatshirt, sunglasses and a face mask, arrives at the state courts in Singapore
  • Tuesday, 21 October, 2025
    UK financial regulation
    Lawyers and accountants push back against UK anti-money laundering reforms

    Bodies warn expanded powers for the FCA will increase costs and the burden of regulation

    The Financial Conduct Authority
  • Monday, 29 September, 2025
    Cryptocurrencies
    Crypto laundering mastermind pleads guilty in London court

    Woman admits £5bn investment fraud that she allegedly ran in China

    Montage featuring a photo of Zhimin Qian, a representation of bitcoin, and a Chinese flag
  • Thursday, 28 August, 2025
    Drug trafficking
    US warns China-linked groups may be laundering billions for Mexican cartels

    Treasury urges US banks to be vigilant to avoid being drawn into such schemes

    A member of the Sinaloa Cartel prepares capsules with methamphetamine in a safe house
  • Thursday, 28 August, 2025
    Brazil
    Brazil raids cartel’s alleged multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme

    Officials said the Primeiro Comando da Capital drug gang was at the root of the racket

    Police vehicles are parked outside a building at the financial centre on Faria Lima Avenue in Sao Paulo,
  • Sunday, 24 August, 2025
    HSBC’s Swiss unit culls wealthy Middle East clients amid regulator scrutiny

    Watchdog previously barred bank from taking on high-risk customers over lax anti-money laundering checks

    Two security officers stand inside the entrance of HSBC Private Bank in Geneva
  • Thursday, 7 August, 2025
    Ixart Miquel-Flores
    How a Mafia crackdown drives economic growth

    When the state breaks rackets, it creates space for honest enterprises to flourish

    María Hergueta illustration of a tractor carrying a pile of firearms in its front loader, with flowers growing behind it
  • Wednesday, 16 July, 2025
    UK financial regulation
    Barclays fined £42mn for failed money laundering checks

    Bank fine linked to criminal cases, including one that embroiled Bernie Ecclestone’s ex son-in-law

    A Barclays bank branch
  • Tuesday, 15 July, 2025
    Crypto is top money laundering threat, warns new EU watchdog

    AMLA chair says Europe’s digital currencies market will be its clear priority

    Bitcoin illustration
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    EU to remove UAE and Gibraltar from money laundering ‘grey’ list

    Gulf state had raised the issue in trade talks with Brussels

    Skyscrapers on the Dubai city skyline
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    News in-depth
    South Africa eyes removal from money laundering ‘grey list’

    Country confident of shift by global financial crime watchdog after prosecutions blitz, says central bank governor

    Lesetja Kganyago, governor of South Africa’s Reserve Bank
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    UBS and Citi among nine banks hit with $21.5mn penalty in Singapore money-laundering case

    Scandal involving island-wide seizures of gold bars and luxury cars rocked city-state’s wealth management sector

    A worker climbs over a railing in Singapore
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Standard Chartered PLC
    Standard Chartered hit with $2.7bn lawsuit over 1MDB scandal

    Liquidators still trying to recoup billions of dollars siphoned from Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund and then laundered

    Standard Chartered signage in Singapore
  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
    Bangladesh
    UK freezes £185mn of properties linked to ex-Bangladesh minister

    National Crime Agency seizes 342 properties associated with Saifuzzaman Chowdhury

    Saifuzzaman Chowdhury
  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
    White collar crime
    US accuses Russian crypto entrepreneur of money laundering and sanctions evasion

    Founder of payments group said to have operated ‘a covert pipeline for dirty money’

    The construction site of the Hanhikivi 1 nuclear power plant in Finland in 2021
  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    EU weighs adding Russia to money laundering ‘grey’ list

    Moscow’s possible inclusion has ‘huge support’ as Brussels expects to adopt new designation next week after a delay

    People outside the Kremlin, Moscow
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    National Crime Agency
    UK crime agency freezes London properties linked to former Bangladesh regime

    Move follows the ousting of former leader Sheikh Hasina amid allegations of embezzlement

    Ahmed Shayan Fazlur Rahman
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Julius Baer Gruppe AG
    Julius Baer ordered to pay $5mn over ‘serious violation’ of regulations

    Decision by Swiss regulator focuses on failure to detect or act on suspicious activity between 2009 and 2019

    The new Julius Baer headquarters in Greville street in London
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Indian politics & policy
    India’s Gandhis called to appear in court on money laundering charges

    Case could threaten once-mighty political clan at helm of opposition Congress party

    Congress leader Rahul Gandhi takes s selfie with his mother Sonia Gandhi
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Peru
    Peru’s former president sentenced to 15 years in jail for money laundering

    Ollanta Humala is the latest of the country’s leaders to be found guilty of corruption

    Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia speak to media in 2018
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Top art galleries fined for money-laundering failures

    Penalties from UK tax authority come as market prepares for sanctions compliance obligations

    The White Cube gallery in Bermondsey, London
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Cyber warfare
    Criminals use AI in ‘proxy’ attacks for hostile powers, warns Europol

    EU police agency says organised crime rings use artificial intelligence to amplify their ‘speed, reach, and sophistication’

    A woman walks by a projection prior to a media conference to present the findings of Europol’s report on the most threatening criminal networks in the European Union
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    Bangladesh
    UN to rent Bangladesh property owned by former regime associate

    Sobhan family under scrutiny amid efforts to claw back billions of dollars allegedly lost under Sheikh Hasina’s rule

    An aerial view of the Gulshan area in Bangadesh showcasing high-rise buildings and dense urban development
  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
    Socialite James Stunt cleared in UK money-laundering case

    Four other defendants found guilty after court hears of carrier bags containing ‘hundreds of thousands of pounds’

    James Stunt
  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    Cryptocurrencies
    Illegal crypto ATM operator given four-year prison sentence

    First conviction in UK as authorities crack down on what they allege is a way to launder money

    a view of Southwark Crown Court
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