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Shvidler appeals to UK Supreme Court to overturn ‘arbitrary’ sanctions designation
Eugene Shvidler, a Russian-born businessman and friend of former Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich, today took his bid to overturn the UK sanctions desig... (more story)
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Schools ordered to pay more than GBP1 million over Axiom fraud
Timothy Schools, a convicted fraudster, was today ordered to pay 1,083,000 pounds for his part in a 100 million-pound fraud that saw him jailed for 14 years. School... (more story)
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UK government moves to further protect agencies over dirty-cash seizures
UK moves to protect prosecutors from deep-pocketed individuals in suspected dirty-money cases could see enforcers becoming braver in taking on Kleptocrats, but hist... (more story)
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Businessman and socialite James Stunt, accused of money laundering, told a UK court today, “I don’t really understand banking” in response to evidence that showed that nearly 23 million pounds was deposited as... (more story)
Block was fined $80 million by regulators from 48 states over failures in its anti-money laundering compliance program at Cash App, its digital money-transfer platform.
Eugene Shvidler, a Russian-born businessman and friend of former Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich, today took his bid to overturn the UK sanctions designation imposed on him in the wake of the inva... (more story)
Five senior Axiom Ince employees appeared at a London court today to answer fraud charges related to the UK law firm’s collapse and the loss of tens of millions of pounds of client money. Their cases were toda... (more story)
Six EU member states — Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Finland and Denmark — have suggested lifting some of the sanctions that the bloc has imposed on Syria since 2011, according to a joint written pr... (more story)
About $50 million in stolen Nigerian assets to be repatriated by the US will fund rural electrification in Nigeria, according to a joint agreement signed Friday by the two governments. The funds come from the ... (more story)
Timothy Schools, a convicted fraudster, was today ordered to pay 1,083,000 pounds for his part in a 100 million-pound fraud that saw him jailed for 14 years. Schools had duped investors into losing money via A... (more story)
An appellate court judge seems willing to reinstate the convictions of a former 21st Century Fox executive and a sports marketing company for their roles in a scheme to bribe South American soccer officials fo... (more story)
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The UK will see its Russian sanctions regime stress-tested this week as the country's top judges hear appeals from billionaire oil tycoon Eugene Shvidler and Russian businessman Sergei Naumenko. The government... (more story)
Rostin Behnam's announcement today that he will step down as US Commodities Futures Trading Commission chair marks the departure of an aggressive enforcer on cryptocurrency matters on the eve of a new administ... (more story)
The resignation of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the shutdown of Parliament will cause delays to the country’s planned overhaul of its legal framework against financial crime, lawyers told MLex. T... (more story)
UK moves to protect prosecutors from deep-pocketed individuals in suspected dirty-money cases could see enforcers becoming braver in taking on Kleptocrats, but history suggests there is unlikely to be a glut o... (more story)
After whipsaw rulings during the holidays by two separate panels of the same US appeals court, the government has asked the Supreme Court to allow it to enforce the Corporate Transparency Act. The law has been... (more story)
One of the major policy accomplishments of Jimmy Carter’s US presidency was the passage of anti-corruption legislation that continues to leave its imprint on corporate criminal law enforcement today.
After losing a motion to dismiss criminal charges of sanctions violations and money laundering, Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm is trying again, armed with an appellate decision involving the cryptocurrenc... (more story)
The Canadian government recently announced plans to bulk up its anti-money laundering enforcement amid criticism that existing measures weren’t tough enough — despite a record fine this spring on the country’s... (more story)