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Former Pennsylvania coal executive shouldn't get bribery trial delay, US says
The February 2026 bribery trial of a former Pennsylvania coal sales executive should not be delayed, prosecutors said Friday, opposing his request for an adjournmen... (more story)
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Mexican businessman found guilty in mixed verdict in US bribery trial
Mexican businessman Ramon Alexandro Rovirosa Martinez was convicted in the US of paying bribes to officials of Mexico’s state-owned oil company in exchange for cont... (more story)
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Vought subordinate Levenbach at OMB tapped to head US CFPB
Stuart Levenbach, a US Office of Management and Budget energy official, has been tapped to head the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – an agency that Preside... (more story)
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The US corruption trial of Smartmatic, its co-founder and a former executive, has been rescheduled to January 2027. The judge said she would not grant further extensions of pretrial deadlines, or the trial dat... (more story)
The February 2026 bribery trial of a former Pennsylvania coal sales executive should not be delayed, prosecutors said Friday, opposing his request for an adjournment to allow for a potential second review of the case.
The US Justice Department announced it had declined to prosecute MGI International and its subsidiaries for evading tariffs after the global plastic resin distributor voluntarily disclosed its conduct, coopera... (more story)
David Kennedy, a former investment manager found guilty for his role in a £100 million fraud linked to collapsed legal financing fund Axiom, has been ordered to pay back almost £1 million.
The indictment of former Goldman Sachs banker Asante Berko was properly sealed, a US judge ruled Wednesday, denying his motion to dismiss charges stemming from an alleged bribery scheme in Ghana. Prosecutors s... (more story)
Two former bankers who fled the UK to avoid criminal trials were jailed for a total of 11 years on Wednesday over a fraud that saw millions of dollars in secret fees siphoned from Libya’s sovereign wealth fund... (more story)
Mexican businessman Ramon Alexandro Rovirosa Martinez intends to fight his bribery conviction, with his lawyer telling MLex Tuesday they aim to have the jury’s verdict vacated and potentially file an appeal ov... (more story)
A US appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of the Corporate Transparency Act, an anti-money laundering law, overturning a lower court’s decision that it was an unjustified use of Congressional power.
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The US corruption trial of Mexican businessman Ramon Alexandro Rovirosa Martinez featured no fact witnesses, which led the judge to block the government from introducing most of its evidence until their closing argument.
UK ambitions to remove juries from trials of all but the most serious cases have met sharp criticism from lawyers, but calls for judge-only trials are nothing new, and for complex fraud cases there has long be... (more story)
A bribery scandal involving one of Ukraine's major energy companies comes at a time when the war-torn nation is attempting to improve its economic-crime record and preparing to join the OECD's Working Group on... (more story)
As TD Bank cooperated with US authorities amid an investigation into suspected money laundering, the Canadian lender began to enforce its compliance program in a way that “intentionally targeted and disproport... (more story)
Comunicaciones Celulares, the Millicom subsidiary that did business as TIGO Guatemala, reached a deferred prosecution agreement with US authorities and agreed to a $118 million penalty. The agreement, unsealed... (more story)
When US authorities announced a massive illegal gambling bust in October that involved professional basketball players, officials said at a press conference that the sports betting companies that had processed... (more story)
In 2010, as JP Morgan Chase retained convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as a client, its anti-money laundering compliance team worked on a project to protect the bank from misuse by human traffickers. The ... (more story)
The targeting of an alleged Cambodian scam factory by US and UK enforcers with sanctions measures can be seen a positive step in Anglo-American relations, but it’s unclear whether the action will herald a new ... (more story)