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Venezuelan forex scheme leads to US money-laundering charges, forfeiture actions, guilty plea

By Robert Thomason ( August 30, 2018, 17:33 GMT | Insight) -- A US case involving an international cohort accused of laundering money embezzled from the Venezuelan government through bribery and fraud began when a banker reported extremely suspicious banking activity, court documents said. So far, there has already been a guilty plea in the case, a politically connected Venezuelan television tycoon has been implicated, and there has been a forfeiture action against a condominium unit in the high-profile Porsche Design Tower near Miami.A US case involving an international cohort accused of laundering money embezzled from the Venezuelan government through bribery and fraud began when a banker reported extremely suspicious banking activity, court documents said....

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