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Money laundering

  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Sheikh Hasina
    Britain asked to investigate assets linked to ousted Bangladeshi regime

    Dhaka central bank probes whether allies of autocrat Sheikh Hasina diverted upwards of £13bn overseas

    3 hours ago
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Swedbank AB
    Former Swedbank chief faces prison over money-laundering scandal

    Birgitte Bonnesen becomes first banker convicted over Estonia money-laundering affair

    Swedbank’s former CEO Birgitte Bonnesen arrives at court
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    UK financial regulation
    UK regulator charges man with unlawfully running crypto ATMs

    Move by Financial Conduct Authority marks first criminal prosecution for activity widely used for money laundering

    The Financial Conduct Authority offices
  • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
    The Weekend Essay
    The kleptocrats aren’t just stealing money. They’re stealing democracy

    A shadow world of secret wealth now threatens us all. We need to shut it down, argues Anne Applebaum

  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Unexplained wealth orders
    Azeri banker’s wife forfeits £14mn Knightsbridge home and golf club

    Zamira Hajiyeva’s assets have been under investigation by UK National Crime Agency for six years

    The Mill Ride golf club near Ascot
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Financial fraud
    Chinese businessman Guo Wengui convicted of fraud in US court

    Self-exiled Communist party critic and associate of Steve Bannon fleeced his online followers, prosecutors said

    A courtroom sketch of Guo Wengui in Manhattan federal court
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Vatican
    Senior Vatican cleric accused of lying to court in London lawsuit

    Archbishop appeared as part of proceedings brought by financier found guilty of embezzlement

    Venezuelan archbishop Edgar Robinson Peña Parra in Vatican city, Rome
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    A Beautiful Chinese Launderette

    Plotting the Fentanyl money flows

  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    Citigroup Inc
    Citi was money launderers’ favourite bank, US law enforcement officials say

    Alleged drug traffickers fed $36,000 into cash machines, indictment claims

  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    Turkey
    Turkey removed from money laundering ‘grey list’

    FATF decision set to give international investors more confidence about country’s assets

    Picture of a hand counting Turkish lira notes
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    39 min
    Chinese brokers launder hundreds of millions for global crime groups | FT Film

    The FT investigates links between Chinese underground banking and global crime cartels

    FT Film: dirty money, cartels and underground banks
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    FT Investigations
    The new money laundering network fuelling the fentanyl crisis

    US officials say Chinese organised crime groups are laundering much of the cash accumulated by Mexican drugs cartels

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    HSBC Holdings PLC
    Swiss regulator finds HSBC violated money laundering rules

    Finma bans bank’s Swiss subsidiary from taking on prominent public figures as clients

    The Swiss offices of HSBC Private Bank in Geneva
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Singapore
    Singapore secures last conviction in $2bn money laundering case

    Tenth Chinese national pleads guilty in scandal that put spotlight on financial hub’s embrace of foreign wealth

    Wang Dehai
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    British-Chinese bitcoin money launderer jailed for over 6 years

    UK case centres on one of the biggest bitcoin hauls by a law enforcement agency in the world

    Jian Wen
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Labour to outline clampdown on UK ‘dirty money’

    ‘Fresh approach’ needed, party says as it announces measures to tackle kleptocracy and corruption

    Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy
  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    How to resolve the debanking debate

    Tighter rules tend to mean louder protests when those affected feel hard done by

  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Chinese fraud victims seek return of £3bn in bitcoin seized in UK

    Group calls for help from Beijing to recover funds held by London police since money laundering investigation

    A montage with pictures of the two women
  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    Swiss private banker charged with stealing dirty money from own client

    Case is latest in a series of scandals exposing the enduring legacy of secrecy in Swiss banking

    Swiss Federal Criminal Court building in Bellinzona, Switzerland
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    Sam Bankman-Fried
    FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud

    US court’s judgment caps the dramatic downfall of one of crypto’s most prominent stars

    Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX
  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
    Accused crypto laundering mastermind dreamt of being a Buddhist goddess

    Zhimin Qian’s spectre loomed over the trial of her ‘carer and assistant’ Jian Wen for money laundering

    A montage of a photo of Zhimin Qian and a bitcoin on a red and black background
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    FT Magazine
    The mystery of the Hampstead mansion and the £1.4bn bitcoin haul

    What were two Chinese women doing in a rented mansion in London with an astronomical amount of cryptocurrency?

  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
    Signa Holding
    Munich prosecutor opens money laundering probe into Signa

    Preliminary investigation initiated into Bavarian developments by collapsed luxury property group

    Hoardings with the Signa logo
  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    Bet365 Group Ltd
    Bet365 faces probe by Australia’s anti-money laundering watchdog

    UK gambling company is latest in sector to be targeted for scrutiny by financial crimes unit

    The online gambling website Bet365 displayed on a smartphone
  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    Deborah Lehr
    The US art market is a sanctions black hole

    It currently provides an untraceable funding source for blacklisted individuals and entities

    Two men in dark suits stand in front of a Russian flag
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