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Binance founder pardoned by Trump over anti-money laundering compliance violation
President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Chanpeng Zhao, the cryptocurrency mogul who served four months in prison for an anti-money laundering compliance... (more story)
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Cryptomus exchange fined C$177 million by FINTRAC for money laundering failures
Cryptocurrency exchange Cryptomus failed to file suspicious-activity reports on more than 1,000 transactions in a single month involving funds allegedly associated ... (more story)
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Smartmatic charged in US bribery case over Philippine voting-machine contracts
Voting machine producer Smartmatic has been charged in the US over its alleged role in a scheme to bribe a former chairman of the Philippines electoral commission t... (more story)
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Tom Hayes, a UK trader whose conviction for rigging a key benchmark investment rate was overturned this summer, has sued UBS for $400 million, alleging that his former employer had framed him as the “evil mast... (more story)
US Securities and Exchange Commission crypto-regulator Mike Selig has been tapped by President Trump to chair the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The appointment was announced by White House AI & cry... (more story)
South Africa and Nigeria are among four countries that were removed from the gray list of an international body monitoring anti-money laundering adherence following improvements in their standards. Both countr... (more story)
Ukraine has said it's been invited to join the OECD Working Group on Bribery. The country was asked to join the Working Group meetings in January 2023 as a participant; a move seen as the first step on the roa... (more story)
President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Chanpeng Zhao, the cryptocurrency mogul who served four months in prison for an anti-money laundering compliance violation. The White House said Zhao was per... (more story)
A “greedy” adviser for hydrogen energy company ITM Power, who made thousands of pounds from wrongly selling stocks, has been fined just over £100,000 for insider dealing, and been banned from the UK’s financia... (more story)
President Trump's nominee to lead the US Justice Department’s Criminal Division pledged during his confirmation hearing Wednesday to follow a memo laying out priorities for enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt P... (more story)
Cryptocurrency exchange Cryptomus failed to file suspicious-activity reports on more than 1,000 transactions in a single month involving funds allegedly associated with darknet marketplaces, fraud, ransomware,... (more story)
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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)
Handing the UK’s financial markets regulator responsibility for supervising accountancy and law firms in relation to money laundering is a bold move, but questions remain as to how the new “super regulator” wi... (more story)
The US Treasury Department’s financial intelligence unit, which has been on a deregulatory tear in recent months, told banks Thursday they should file fewer reports about suspicious transactions. Financial ins... (more story)
A new rule from the US Commerce Department expands the universe of entities covered by export controls and may increase the risks of failing to comply with a trade regulation considered a priority for criminal... (more story)
Where will £5.5 billion in Bitcoin seized by UK authorities from a Chinese fraud end up? Chinese investors eyeing a slice could face an uphill battle in recouping their losses. UK civil recovery proceedings we... (more story)
Correspondence between UK law firm Carter Ruck and a former client — an alleged $4 billion fraudster dubbed the “CryptoQueen” — have thrown light on the suspected use of legal tactics to shut down scrutiny of ... (more story)
UBS's deal this week to pay just under $1 billion to end a long-running French case over allegations of money laundering and tax evasion may please the Swiss bank's management in the sense that it could have b... (more story)
Allegations of a Mexican businessman’s purported ties to a drug cartel were racist and motivated by politics, and they render a US corruption investigation against him unconstitutional, according to a recent m... (more story)