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Money laundering

  • 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
  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    White collar crime
    Pandemic homeworking gave cover for insider-trading scheme, UK court told

    Prosecutors say former Janus Henderson employee was ‘at the centre’ of the scheme, although he denies charges

    Janus Henderson logo
  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
    Barclays PLC
    Barclays reveals FCA money-laundering probe and tax fight

    UK bank also provisions £90mn for potential car finance mis-selling costs

    Barclays signage on a branch of the bank
  • Sunday, 26 January, 2025
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh hires Big Four audit firms to review ‘robbed’ banks

    Central bank governor says EY, Deloitte and KPMG have already begun work after loss of estimated $17bn

    Bangladesh central bank governor Ahsan Mansur in his office in Dhaka in  August 2024
  • Friday, 17 January, 2025
    James Stunt
    No one objected to Mayfair cash deliveries, James Stunt tells money laundering trial

    Socialite has insisted he had no knowledge of alleged criminal enterprise

    James Stunt
  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2025
    James Stunt
    Socialite insists he had no knowledge of ‘criminal enterprise’ in Mayfair

    James Stunt, former son-in-law of Bernie Ecclestone, is accused of participating in £200mn ‘dirty money’ scheme

    James Stunt
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Entain PLC
    Ladbrokes owner sued over anti-money laundering breaches by Australian watchdog

    Austrac says Entain failed to identify and assess risks

    Outside a Ladbrokes betting shop in London
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Money launderer for Russian spies won deal to help defend Ukraine power plant

    Sanctioned ‘entrepreneur’ awarded sensitive state contract to provide parts for Dnipro hydroelectric station damaged by Russian missiles

    Dnieper Hydroelectric Station
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    UK uncovers criminal crypto network

    Multibillion-dollar ring connected cash-rich criminals with sanctions evaders

  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    UK uncovers vast crypto laundering scheme for gangsters and Russian spies

    Multibillion-dollar ring across London, Moscow and Dubai connected cash-rich criminals with sanctions evaders

    From left: Smart’s Ekaterina Zhdanova, TGR’s office near London’s Oxford Circus and TGR’s George Rossi and Elena Chirkinyan
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