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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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US Fed supervisors told to defer to bank’s own enforcement audits
US Federal Reserve supervisors are being told to defer to a bank’s own audits in deciding whether to terminate enforcement actions against the firm. These decisions... (more story)
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Former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng lost his attempt to overturn his US conviction and sentence over his role in multibillion-dollar fraud of Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, considered one of the larges... (more story)
Lawyers for Aliaksandr Klimenka, a Belarusian man accused by US prosecutors of controlling the BTC-e money-laundering platform, asked a federal judge in San Francisco Friday to compel the government to turn ov... (more story)
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 contracts. After a three-day trial and about six ... (more story)
Standard Chartered has settled a $1.9 billion claim brought by investors who said they lost out due to the investment bank’s complicity in bribery and sanctions busting. The bank denied any liability.
Mexican businessman Ramon Alexandro Rovirosa Martinez chose to pay bribes to a foreign official, US prosecutors said at the close of his corruption trial, while the defense countered by saying the government h... (more story)
The Federal Reserve Board is requesting public input on the impact of potential strategic changes to check services it provides — such as check collection and processing services at a fee to banks — as well as... (more story)
Mexican businessman Ramon Alexandro Rovirosa Martinez relied on third parties, including the domestic employee of his fugitive colleague, to deliver bribes to a Mexican official, a US agent testified Wednesday... (more story)
Georgia businessman Carl Zaglin was sentenced on Tuesday to 96 months in prison after he was found guilty of paying bribes to Honduran officials for contracts to supply uniforms to the country’s national polic... (more story)
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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)