PIRRO: To launder information to get back to the FBI.
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HSBC had repeatedly been penalized for helping clients launder money.
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Sleep in them a few nights, launder them, and repeat.
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They then allegedly used illicit money exchanges to launder the money.
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That bankers launder more money than José Treviño ever could have.
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Conservationists have expressed concerns that domestic buyers could launder illicit supplies.
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Officials have said cryptocurrencies are used by criminals to launder money.
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Another way Hanson discovered he could launder cash was through casinos.
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On the contrary, it makes it easier to launder illegal goods.
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A Dark Web market has popped up to help launder bitcoin.
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Manafort was charged with bank fraud and conspiring to launder money.
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They're incredibly easy to lose, or accidentally launder with your clothes.
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The defendants had used Bitcoin exchanges to launder their ransomware profits.
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Next, launder the stained items as usual, again in cold water.
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These companies help drug traffickers launder profits and hide dirty money.
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Ms. Gomez-Irizarry, 36, was charged with conspiracy to launder money.
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Philrem has denied charges that it was used to launder the money.
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Launder and heat-dry your swimsuits after wearing them in the ocean.
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"You go to Cyprus because that's where Russians launder money," said Rep.
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The crop is also used to launder money, said Sava governor Sabotsy.
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Other companies try to launder their political contributions through trade-association dues.
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Last year, Leissner pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder money from 1MDB.
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A car-loan business was also used to launder money, police said.
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You are trying to launder drug money, not make more of it.
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As one might imagine, different threat groups launder money in different ways.
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In practical terms, it's one of the easiest ways to launder money.
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She asked me, with apologies, to launder some of her personal items.
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How did he launder the money he received, according to the indictment?
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These identities were also used to launder payments through PayPal and cryptocurrency accounts.
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The operation brought Sylvestri some serious cash, which he too had to launder.
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Deutsche Bank was fined $425m in 2017 for helping launder $10bn from Russia.
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He just wanted to launder some money in the deep woods of Missouri.
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Cipriani says he did not know he was being used to launder money.
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Many used his apartments and casinos to launder untold millions in dirty money.
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If you steal money, you need somewhere to launder it; otherwise it's useless.
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Yet this may also have allowed time for crooks to launder their money.
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The former employees are accused of helping to launder $230 million from Russia.
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The fix is easy: Launder with 2 cups white vinegar and dry thoroughly.
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Chenier recalled using shampoo to launder his jersey and shorts in hotel bathtubs.
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Ferrer said he also conspired to launder Backpage's funds with other executives, officials announced.
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The group used cryptocurrency exchanges like CoinBase and Kraken to launder money as well.
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MANY Nigerians may see building a hotel as an easy way to launder money.
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Most people visit the Swiss Alps to ski or hike, maybe to launder money.
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Ukraine's current government believes American firms helped Yanukovich and others launder stolen government funds.
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The loggers use vanilla to launder their profits, propelling demand ever higher, he said.
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Gambling of all kinds has long been a way to launder ill-gotten cash.
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He is accused of purchasing more than 20 houses to help him launder money.
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Charges include conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, and false statements.
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You don't use the former prosecutors to launder information coming in from the FBI.
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De Leon worked with those men to then launder the bribe money, prosecutors said.
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Leave it overnight, then brush away the salt and launder the garment as usual.
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Families are instructed to launder sheets and blankets and to bag unwashable stuffed animals.
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As these dangerous businesses have grown there have been ever larger profits to launder.
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If he is, I think it's vital that victory does not launder his sins.
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She learned to launder, sew and cook, a skill that would later become indispensable.
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Prosecutors alleged that Prevezon helped launder the proceeds from the scam involving Browder's companies.
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It's a relatively attractive country to launder money in, but not to commit crimes in.
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Two defendants, not including the cardinal, are charged with using the project to launder cash.
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Le Roux is also accused of mail and wire fraud, and conspiracy to launder money.
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Leissner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money and violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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It estimates that criminal groups launder $140bn by match-fixing and illegal betting each year.
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According to The Independent, the game's currency has been used to launder money by criminals.
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Prosecutors claimed the companies were used to launder money stolen by corrupt Russian tax officials.
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There's more than enough here to suggest that Launder could construct a fascinating full-length.
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Putin said virtual currencies could be used to launder money, evade taxes and finance terrorism.
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Regulators are also putting the screws on ICOs, which can be used to launder money.
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Schiff speculates that the White House was attempting to "launder" intelligence through the House committee.
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Did the Russian government try to court Trump and launder money through The Trump Organization?
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The indictment charged 12 Venezuelans with crimes including money laundering and conspiracy to launder money.
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The dealer uses a money broker to launder the drug proceeds into the U.S. banking system.
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Bout used a series of anonymous U.S. shell companies to launder money and facilitate his smuggling.
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It makes it easier to launder illegal products and sustains the demand that fuels the trade.
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Manafort, one of the firm's owners, has been indicted for using the company to launder money.
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House Democrats might unearth documents suggesting that the Trump Organisation was used to launder Russian money.
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It also said eight defendants, including offshore bank Loyal Bank Ltd, schemed to launder fraud proceeds.
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It is well known that terrorist groups use criminal networks to obtain resources and launder money.
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In 17, a Japanese acquaintance asked him to help launder 224 protected radiated tortoises from Madagascar.
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"It could offer criminal syndicates new avenues to launder poached ivory, undermining law enforcement," she said.
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As Cudlip sees it, Launder offered everyone the opportunity to branch out for a little while.
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Put the laces in a small mesh washing bag and launder them along with the sneakers.
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He now faces seven counts in Washington, including illegal foreign lobbying and conspiracy to launder money.
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Gates has pleaded guilty to helping Manafort launder millions of dollars through bank accounts in Cyprus.
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Even more disturbingly, Trump used his foundation to launder money to support friends and attack opponents.
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But FIFA didn't serve this purpose; the individual (alleged) criminals had to launder the money themselves.
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Who better to launder money than a country that has specialized in that business for decades?
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The wealthy launder their privilege by allowing select others to earn their way into its orbit.
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There is nothing new about Mr. Manafort's use of shell companies to hide and launder money.
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Mr. Leissner recently pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder money and violate U.S. anti-bribery laws.
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Watchdogs are particularly concerned about Libra's possible use by criminals to launder money and finance terrorism.
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Gates is still accused of launder the same amount as in the original indictment, $3 million.
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So he's claiming that reporters create fictional anonymous sources and launder anti-Trump lies through them.
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Theoretically by charging CONSPIRACY to money launder, the minimum sentence could go even higher -- way higher.
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PC: "The Cleaner (or how to launder money and disappear)" is a show without the business.
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Leissner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Essentially: Cutler is helping the brothers launder the church money, and get away without reporting the earnings.
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In other words, Mr. Trump's casino helped launder money and no one was charged with a crime.
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Hiding the source of the funds would be a good start, but how do you launder Bitcoin?
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All of this comes in addition to allegations that Kazakhstani oligarchs used Trump properties to launder money.
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Mega Financial chairman Shiu defended the bank's conduct, saying it did not help customers launder money overseas.
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"There is a range of ways that people launder money," Mr. Palmer said by telephone from London.
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Defendants based in the U.S. would help to liquidate and launder the money scammed from the victims.
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Manafort faces seven charges in the Washington trial, including illegal foreign lobbying and conspiracy to launder money.
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The company was used by the Sharif's family to launder money, evade tax and hide offshore assets.
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It said bank accounts used by the network to launder more than 300,000 euros had been blocked.
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The confluence of interests enables Qanon conspiracists to launder ideas into the mainstream in potentially dangerous ways.
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According to the police, this suggested a possible conspiracy to launder the proceeds of the art sales.
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The scammers are skilled manipulators who are frequently able to dupe victims into helping them launder money.
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His customers—the actual thieves—hire spammers to distribute the malware and money mules to launder the funds.
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He pleaded guilty in January 2016 to conspiring to import and distribute cocaine and conspiring to launder money.
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Sweden's Swedbank in March dismissed its CEO over allegations that its Baltic accounts were used to launder money.
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But perhaps we underestimated laundry detergent when we never considered using it for anything other than to launder.
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Instead, Low is accused of paying bribes to officials and attempting to launder billions stolen from the fund.
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The two unsolved cases also highlight how thieves could launder proceeds through existing money laundering networks in Asia.
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"It was created to launder the reputation of Yanukovych in Europe and the United States," Leschenko told CNN.
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Environmental activists have long asserted that Hong Kong's legal ivory market has enabled traders to launder illegal products.
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It was a neat and easy way for Hanson to launder cash, and apparently it all went smoothly.
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Fujimori's daughter, opposition leader Keiko Fujimori, was jailed in October pending trial over money launder allegations she denies.
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Criminals then are able to launder their ill-gotten gains through networks available on those same dark markets.
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Manafort is charged with conspiring to launder money and acting as an unregistered foreign agent, among other charges.
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The Justice Department's indictment has 12 counts against the former Trump campaign official, including conspiracy to launder money.
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Literally awash in money, many Mexican cartels struggled to launder and spend all the money they were making.
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Chinese organized crime networks also rely on financial secrecy to launder profits from the deadly trade of fentanyl.
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The government has charged another former Goldman banker, Roger Ng, with conspiring to launder money and pay bribes.
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They began to speculate in art, often as a way to launder cash obtained in sanctions-evading schemes.
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Trammell: Looks like the plan is to steal cryptocurrency and pass it through a tumbler to launder it.
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Mexico cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman allegedly used a Delaware-based tequila business to launder drug money.
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Yet Lustgarten continued to launder drug proceeds through banks in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Switzerland, according to the feds.
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There are many methods criminals use to launder Bitcoin and eventually convert it into a more useful fiat currency.
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According to Chainalysis and Neutrino's research, the WannaCry hackers are using a service called ShapeShift to launder their Bitcoins.
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A conviction on conspiracy to launder money alone could carry a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
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Other times, they offer practical advice, like how to correctly launder a long-sleeve shirt to prevent wrinkled sleeves.
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Corrupt African leaders, of whom there is still an abundance, can always find foreign enablers to launder the loot.
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In October, Manafort pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy against the United States.
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Washio is here: It'll take your dirty clothes, launder and fold them, and bring them right back to you.
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A third defendant, Mark Scott, stands accused of helping the two launder more than $400 million in illicit proceeds.
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Treasury said Ebrahimi and his employees used a Lebanon-based network to transfer funds, launder money, and conduct business.
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Under the agreement, Banamex USA admitted criminally failing to maintain an effective anti-money launder program, the DOJ said.
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All of the defendants received conspiracy charges, and some were charged with identity theft and conspiracy to launder money.
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Regulators are also worried that cryptocurrencies may be used by people to evade tax, launder money or finance terrorism.
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Then, treat with a small amount of dish soap, liquid laundry detergent or a stain pretreatment product and launder.
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In expensive cities like New York and Miami, L.L.C.s have helped foreign investors launder money through luxury condo purchases.
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Among them is whether it could be used to launder money or finance terrorism, a problem with other cryptocurrencies.
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Industry insiders say this informal trade helps launder money for politically connected cartels, which ship heroin the other way.
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The US government charged the pair with conspiracy to launder money and for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.
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He had also pleaded guilty to charges that included racketeering conspiracy and conspiracies to launder money and obstruct justice.
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It's certainly true that criminals find the cards to be a convenient method to transfer and launder illicit funds.
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Steve Madden, founder of the shoe company, said alcohol and drugs led him to launder money and commit fraud.
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Author's note: From a separate email, also taken from Colo's Facebook page: THE CLEANER—TODAY's REPORT: We launder $35,000,051!
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U.S. prosecutors charge that the executive of Turkey's state-owned Halkbank, Mehmet Hakan Atilla, helped Iran launder the money.
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Senior IS leaders are highly educated and will launder illicit assets through outside individuals with legal, compliance, and accounting backgrounds.
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With vast amounts of money circulating on an unregulated art market, it has become the perfect place to launder money.
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He pleaded guilty in January 2016 to charges of conspiring to import and distribute cocaine, and conspiring to launder money.
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He pleaded guilty in January 2016 to charges of conspiring to import and distribute cocaine and conspiring to launder money.
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Those condos were later seized by the government, which claimed they were used to launder money for the Russian mob.
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Favorable corporate laws The laws established in the 1920s were refined to make Panama an easy place to launder money.
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They were accused of a series of charges including fundraising for terrorism, fraud and conspiracy to launder proceeds of crime.
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Ditsworth, who is now married with two children, apparently used a reputation management firm to launder his identity, Sutton said.
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This month, the nation's top banks endorsed the legislation to ensure that they are not misused to launder illicit proceeds.
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The FSTB says it is concerned that the system may be used by criminals to conceal and launder illicit proceeds.
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Clients may want to keep money away from soon-to-be ex-wives, dodge sanctions, launder money or evade taxes.
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He was indicted on 12 counts, including conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, false statements and more.
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The lawyers representing his administration had "failed in their attempts to launder the Proclamation of its discriminatory taint," Sotomayor wrote.
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On Friday she upheld prosecutors' ability to charge Manafort with conspiracy to launder money earned through his foreign lobbying work.
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He said that the firm has never helped clients evade taxes or launder money, nor has it destroyed any documents.
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The legislation would also require more transparency from shell companies, which often are used to launder foreign money into elections.
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That trial, in DC federal court, tackles allegations that Manafort broke foreign lobbying laws and conspired to launder his proceeds.
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The Russians are being charged with conspiracy, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to launder money.
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Prosecutors say Low, Ng, and Leissner conspired to launder the proceeds of fraud involving 1MDB through the U.S. financial system.
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Manafort, who has pleaded not guilty, is facing multiple criminal charges, including conspiracy to launder money and making false statements.
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Apply the paste, allow it to penetrate the stain for 30 minutes, rinse with cold water, then launder as usual.
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From Africa to Europe, North Korean diplomats exploit their consular posts to launder money at the expense of international comity.
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But he is also on a U.S. Treasury list of people suspected of helping to launder money for drug cartels.
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But I have to say, I was surprised by how easy it was to get REO Speedwagon to launder money.
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Because large deposits went unreported, the machines were used to launder money from crimes like drug dealing, the case says.
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The Russians are being charged with conspiracy, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to launder money.
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Opponents counter that a legal trade could tempt poachers who kill rhinos to launder their "blood" horns with clean supplies.
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The scammers use them to launder money by having them deposit checks, wire cash, or forward packages to other addresses.
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Gates had been potentially facing decades in prison on much more serious charges, including bank fraud and conspiracy to launder money.
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The American Legislative Exchange Council was founded in the 1970s to launder corporate and radical ideas into supposedly people-driven laws.
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The purpose was to persuade the government to pay its debt to a company used by the gang to launder money.
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But for decades it let Italian citizens hold accounts, which law enforcement officials said helped them launder money and evade taxes.
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Illegal gold mining in Colombia, for example, is now considered the easiest way to launder money from the country's drug trade.
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The law was originally introduced amid concerns that wealthy people could invest in bogus startups as a way to launder money.
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Federal prosecutors indicted her on three counts of money laundering, one of conspiracy to money launder, and one of bank fraud.
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The transcript detailed Simpson's suspicions about Trump's ties to Russian efforts to launder money through real estate purchases and other businesses.
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Mueller also charges Manafort with conspiracy to launder money, acting as an unregistered foreign agent and lying to authorities against Manafort.
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Phillips underscores this point in a Data & Society report on the ways extremists and manipulators launder toxic messaging through mainstream journalism.
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Many of the documents were released through WikiLeaks and other outlets in an effort to launder the source of the data.
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EU-based criminal organisations, such as Italian mafias, launder most of their illegal proceeds in the largest EU states, estimates show.
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Such accounts are a favored tool to evade taxes, launder money or pay bribes, though they have legitimate uses as well.
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Estonian police also warned that more attempts to launder funds could be expected with further Russian bank closures likely this year.
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They say he created a fake non-profit, charitable foundation which served as a front to launder the payments from parents.
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Italian investigators have traced criminal proceeds to companies set up in Malta to launder money by the southern Italian mafia groups.
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Meanwhile, Trump's luxury properties have long catered to the kinds of foreign buyers known to launder cash through real estate acquisitions.
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He now faces seven additional charges in D.C., including conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign lobbyist.
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Guzmán's Sinaloa cartel is believed to have used imports of footwear and clothing, brought through Los Angeles, to launder drug money.
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Mazur further elaborated that current telecom industry structure actually makes it even easier than ever to launder large sums relatively unchecked.
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These lawmakers expressed concerns about how the network would protect users' privacy and prevent criminals from using it to launder money.
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As we saw with the WannaCry ransomware, Bitcoin ransom can be quickly moved and there are numerous ways to launder it.
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For years, bitcoin critics have warned us about how the cryptocurrency provides way too much opportunity for criminals to launder money.
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One of them, Tim Leissner, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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The move reflects growing concern among international law enforcement agencies that cryptocurrencies are being used to launder the proceeds of crime.
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Nielsen should not be permitted to launder her reputation through a fellowship at Harvard, like Corey Lewandowski or Sean Spicer did.
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Márquez, 39, is on a United States Treasury Department blacklist of people it says have helped launder money for drug cartels.
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All 80 of the named defendants were charged with aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit fraud, and conspiracy to launder money.
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" — STEPHEN COLBERT "Manafort's been charged with 12 counts, including conspiracy to launder money, tax fraud and conspiracy against the United States.
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Mr. Valdez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import cocaine, conspiracy to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to launder money in January 2016.
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FBI agents determined that they used an Israeli attorney to try to launder more than $2 million, according to court documents.
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He faces seven separate charges in Washington, D.C., including conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign lobbyist.
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EU-based criminal organizations, such as Italian mafias, launder most of their illegal proceeds in the largest EU states, estimates show.
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A self-styled "disruptive technologist" was arrested after speaking at a conference in Pyongyang on using digital currencies to launder money.
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They must not be allowed to launder money into U.S. real estate and to own houses and apartments through anonymous companies.
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Over his seven days of testimony in Manhattan federal court, Zarrab said Turkish officials took bribes and helped Iran launder money.
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Security services also are investigating him after an AP report containing allegations he asked a Latvian bank to launder money from Russia.
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Two Deutsche Bank staff members are suspected of helping clients set up off-shore businesses to launder money gained from criminal deeds.
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Why is it all right to launder the money of Saudi princes, or of African kleptocrats, but not that of Kremlin cronies?
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Two Deutsche Bank staff members are suspected of helping clients set up off-shore businesses to launder money gained from criminal activity.
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Nor had it ever destroyed any documents or helped anyone evade taxes or launder money, he added in an interview with Reuters.
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He admitted in August that while working there, he helped launder money from narcotics trafficking through beef sales to the United States.
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Criminal organizations also became very powerful during the post-Soviet chaos, and Putin helped them launder money and set up front companies.
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Critics worry the freeport system can be used to dodge taxation or launder money, since precise inventories and transactions are not tracked.
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Brazilian prosecutors in January said Mossack Fonseca helped members of the Workers' Party launder money through the purchase of beach-side apartments.
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The latter resulted in more than 80 banks, used by vested interests to launder money and pocket bank operations, being shut down.
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You won't find much online about John Cudlip, the Californian singer-songwriter and guitarist who makes hazy, driving shoegaze music as Launder.
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America's Justice Department began proceedings to seize assets involved in "an international conspiracy to launder funds" from 1MDB, Malaysia's state investment fund.
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The complaint alleges a group of people, including Jurg Widmer Probst, conspired to launder money through a restaurant location in Doral, Fla.
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That, many worry, leaves plenty of room for people to launder money or finance terrorism activities and engage in other fraudulent behaviors.
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Animal welfare organizations say a legal trade could encourage more poaching by criminal gangs seeking to launder "dirty" horns in clean markets.
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An indictment charges Potts and Corbitt with wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money while running a scheme from 2004 to 2012.
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Colombia had imposed the high tariffs because it said the goods were imported at artificially low prices in order to launder money.
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HSBC agreed in 2012 to pay $1.92 billion in fines, mainly for allowing itself to be used to launder Mexican drug money.
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The inquiry concluded that it was fairly easy for foreigners to hide their identities and launder their funds through the United States.
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New York City and Miami are two prominent examples where all-cash purchase of property are a common way to launder money.
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Mueller indicted Gates and Manafort together last year, accusing them of working together over the years to launder money, among other crimes.
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They were charged last Tuesday in a superseding indictment with conspiring to launder bribes and other payments through Singer's charity, prosecutors said.
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Beyond providing the convenience of having someone else make your bed and launder your towels, can a hotel room improve your mood?
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Valdez noted that it has become increasingly common for women to traffic arms and drugs, launder money, and commit or order assassinations.
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The Laundromat looks into the Panamanian law firm that allowed wealthy individuals and corporations to launder money in tax havens around the world.
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Keep reading to find out which pieces are missing from your lingerie wardrobe (then maybe read up on how to properly launder them).
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If he is, he may be hard to get back, since Chinese state firms may have been used to launder money from 1MDB.
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Silverstein first discovered Mossack Fonseca while researching another story, digging into how criminals were buying up Miami real estate to launder their money.
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Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn have said a former Goldman Sachs employee has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money.
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But the community immediately questioned the Robin Hood scheme, suggesting that even if true it could be an attempt to launder the money.
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The illicit money would be sent to an entity known as Blue Apple Services that would launder the cash through banks, Porcell said.
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"Sticking £10,000 down your underpants and flying to Zurich is still quite a common and easy way to launder money," says Mr McGuire.
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Europol says the group would then use prepaid cards linked to cryptocurrency wallets to launder the money and buy luxury cars and houses.
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The foundation was allegedly used to launder money and funnel it from wealthy parents to college coaches, administrators, and others, including Singer himself.
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Conservationists fear the legal market from South African captive-raised lions could provide incentives for poachers to "launder" bones taken from wild lions.
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And second, the US would place sanctions on multiple Chinese companies and possibly banks, since many of them help launder North Korean money.
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The Key Worldwide Foundation was nothing more than a front to launder money from parents, which Singer doled out to administrators as bribes.
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Among Rinse's current services are: launder and press, wash and fold, dry cleaning, hang dry, leather cleaning and some other garment repair services.
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Israeli Police said that Steinmetz and four others were being held for allegedly drawing up false contracts and property deals to launder money.
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He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to facilitate prostitution and launder money, surrendered Backpage and its assets, and promised to cooperate with federal authorities.
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AS) agreed to pay 775 million euros ($900 million) this month after admitting criminals had been able to launder money through its accounts.
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Prosecutors said the Rosenthals used their businesses to engineer a scheme to launder drug trafficking and foreign bribery proceeds through U.S. bank accounts.
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Asian crime groups also take advantage of the region's poorly governed but well connected financial systems to launder money into the legitimate economy.
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He faces charges of conspiracy to launder money and receive stolen goods, as well as taking over land unlawfully to build meditation centers.
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First, digital currency is the easiest, quickest, and most private way to launder money globally, in large part due to anonymous "privacy coins".
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He faces seven charges, including illegal foreign lobbying on behalf of a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine and conspiracy to launder money.
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" Zarrab's witness testimony and documents displayed at trial "would show that this conspiracy to launder money for Iran was not a rogue operation.
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Reuters reported that an Israeli court found Michael Kadar, 19, guilty on charges of extortion, disseminating hoaxes to spread panic and money launder.
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"It takes away the ability of people to launder money or evade taxes, because you have a ledger of everyone's activity," he said.
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As offshore accounts have multiplied during the past several decades, they have increasingly been used to launder money, evade taxes or finance terrorism.
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But you don't want it to become too profitable or there will be no room in the margins for you to launder money.
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The use of Bitcoin to launder payments related to the operation landed the Russian defendants a charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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Leissner, a former partner for Goldman Sachs in Asia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money and violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Prosecutors said he and other conference attendees had discussed how cryptocurrency technology could be used by Pyongyang to launder money and evade sanctions.
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In most cases they accepted Bitcoin as payment, then attempted to launder that money through undercover agents who exchanged the coins for cash.
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Beyond core concerns of trust, they are worried Libra could be used to launder money, finance terrorism or destabilize central bank fiat currencies.
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Prosecutors said he and other conference attendees had discussed how cryptocurrency technology could be used by Pyongyang to launder money and evade sanctions.
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The former Goldman managing director is charged with conspiracy to launder billions of dollars embezzled from 1Malaysia Development Berhad, Malaysia's state investment fund.
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Zarrab is cooperating with U.S. prosecutors in the criminal trial of a Turkish bank executive accused of helping to launder money for Iran.
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Guzman pleaded not guilty to 10 counts, including conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds and international distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs.
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It is not easy or straightforward for enforcement to ensure that a legally-certified scheme does not serve to launder illegally-hunted animals.
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In 2018, for example, the Mayfair-based dealer Matthew Green was charged with helping to launder money through a $9.2 million Picasso painting.
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There, he and other attendees discussed how cryptocurrency technology could be used by Pyongyang to launder money and evade sanctions, the prosecutors said.
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But the politicians and business people who launder maize grown illegally in the forest into legal supply chains remain free, local prosecutors say.
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The charges against him include conspiring to launder money, failing to register as a foreign agent, bank fraud and filing false tax returns.
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Danske Bank in Denmark has been embroiled in a scandal stemming from accusations that its Estonian unit helped Russian clients launder enormous sums.
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Much of its business came from criminals seeking to launder proceeds from Ponzi schemes, credit card trafficking, identity thefts and computer hacking, prosecutors said.
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Of the 12 defendants, 11 are charged with conspiracy to commit computer crimes, eight counts of aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to launder money.
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Three European central bankers have claimed oversight over Libra to ensure it would not jeopardize the financial system or be used to launder money.
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In July, the German police detained his mother, Gilda Margarita Austin, after the Mexican judiciary accused her of helping to launder money from Pemex.
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Tim Leissner, a former partner for Goldman Sachs in Asia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money and violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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The Spanish court said Tuesday that the defendants sought to launder more than $33 million earned from their forgery scheme, using different bank accounts.
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There, he must find a way to launder millions in cartel cash, working against a formidable deadline while keeping the suspicious feds at bay.
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Replacing cash with digital currency, under the control of the central bank, would make it tougher to launder money, dodge taxes or sell drugs.
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They also found he made frequent visits to Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, which mobsters routinely used to launder huge sums of money.
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That means figuring out where the gangs keep their money, how they launder it and which authorities are being paid off to protect them.
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Phra Dhammachayo faces charges of conspiracy to launder money and receive stolen goods, as well as taking over land unlawfully to build meditation centers.
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PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - The attorney general of the island nation of Mauritius stepped down on Wednesday after allegations he had helped launder gambling money.
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The indictment said the five Venezuelans then used various companies and bank accounts in Switzerland, Curaçao and elsewhere to launder the money they received.
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Those charges include conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign principal and false statements.
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Manafort has been charged in several indictments with acting as an unregistered foreign agent, lying to investigators and conspiracy to launder money, among others.
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For example, North Korea makes money via hacking, and cryptocurrencies help North Korea launder that money and put it to work for other uses.
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I take them home and launder them when they've been used (one must be aware of the "cootie factor"), and they are always used.
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The Estonian police also warned more attempts to launder funds via could be expected as more bank closures are expected in Russia in 2018.
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Opponents of opening up the trade argue it could lead to more poaching by criminal gangs seeking to launder "dirty" horns in clean markets.
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Phra Dhammachayo faces charges of conspiracy to launder money and receive stolen goods, as well as taking over land unlawfully to build meditation centres.
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The authority has succeeded in protecting NGOs based in Doha "from the risk of being exploited to launder money and finance terrorism," it said.
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Your goal is to operate at a slight loss, not enough to be obvious, but enough to launder in your real source of income.
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Leissner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and has agreed to forfeit $43.7 million.
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Three European central bankers have claimed oversight over Libra to ensure it would not jeopardise the financial system or be used to launder money.
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Epstein, it's easy to surmise, hoped to launder his reputation by association with all this—to purchase secular indulgences from these intellectual high priests.
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He gave a talk at a conference in Pyongyang about how to use cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to launder money, according to federal investigators.
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Washington and Beijing worked to bring down a Chinese company that was helping North Korea to launder money and evade sanctions just last year.
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In D.C., Manafort is charged with conspiracy to launder money, witness tampering, lying to the Justice Department and acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
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Last week, Ng was extradited to the United States where he pleaded not guilty to conspiring to launder money and bribe foreign government officials.
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The lawsuits, filed in Los Angeles, seek to seize assets "involved in and traceable to an international conspiracy to launder money misappropriated from 1MDB".
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Reza Zarrab is cooperating with U.S. prosecutors in the criminal trial of a Turkish bank executive accused of helping to launder money for Iran.
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In total, the indictment charges 11 spies with conspiracy to commit computer crimes, eight counts of aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to launder money.
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Prosecutors said they engaged in a multi-year scheme to launder proceeds of narcotics trafficking and bribery offenses through accounts located in the United States.
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Now her online account is getting fat she is worried again, but now about how to launder the money in her mother's and brother's eyes.
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Guzmán, whose nickname means "Shorty," was found guilty of 10 charges, including conspiracy to launder proceeds from narcotic proceeds and engaging in a criminal enterprise.
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The former abbot faces charges of conspiracy to launder money and receive stolen goods, as well as taking over land unlawfully to build meditation centres.
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Its name comes from a gas station in Brasilia, where a currency exchange and money transfer service was used to launder outrageous sums of money.
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To launder their money, they invest in ranching and agriculture, two businesses notorious for bulldozing and burning forests to make way for livestock and crops.
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Especially since some of the queue-jumpers are crooks or tax-dodgers, who want a new home in which to hide or launder their loot.
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The reports also said Crown knowingly allowed gamblers to launder money at its casinos and pressured immigration officials to fast-track visas for high rollers.
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The police source would not say more on how the scheme worked, but some media said contracts involving Russian players were used to launder money.
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Manafort and Gates were indicted on 12 counts , including conspiracy against the United States and conspiracy to launder money, the special counsel's office announced Monday.
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The government touts UWOs as evidence that it is taking on foreigners who launder ill-gotten gains through property purchases, often hiding behind shell companies.
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In recent years, U.S. prosecutors have examined the role Puerto Rico's offshore banks have played in efforts to launder Venezuelan funds through the United States.
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The charges include conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy against the United States and failing to register as foreign agents of Ukraine's former pro-Russian government.
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Russian financial authorities initially treated any sort of money issued by non-state approved institutions as illegal, saying they could be used to launder money.
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According to a DOJ press release, the site was also used to launder hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from sales made on AlphaBay.
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Indeed, Manafort was also charged in October with conspiracy to launder money, and in February he was charged with additional counts of bank fraud conspiracy.
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Carstens agreed, adding that "individuals who massively evade taxes or launder money are the ones who are willing to live with cryptocurrencies' extreme price volatility".
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They had argued unsealing the report could provide a "road map" for criminals seeking to launder money and discourage people from cooperating with the monitor.
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One recent case involved a Turkish-Iranian gold trader that may have allowed Iran to launder as much as $1 billion between 2012 and 2016.
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That, many worry, leaves plenty of room for people to launder money or engage in other fraudulent behaviors — especially in countries where corruption is rampant.
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A Long Island, N.Y., woman was accused on Thursday of using the global cryptocurrency bitcoin to launder money to ISIS, according to the Justice Department.
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In 2015, the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said BPA had helped organized crime groups from Venezuela to China launder billions of dollars.
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It asserts conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, and failure to register as an agent of a foreign principal, among other charges.
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Manafort faces a separate trial in D.C. on charges of conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent in late September.
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Danish authorities convicted the owners of several exchange agencies in Copenhagen in 2016 for having helped criminal networks launder million of dollars in suspicious funds.
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Infiltrating the cartel, he systematically works his way up the ladder and connects the organization with international bankers who agree to launder the cartel's wealth.
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Those existing charges include conspiracy to launder money, failing to file foreign bank account reports, acting as an unregistered foreign agent and making false statements.
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However, several United Nations reports on the effect of Iranian sanction do indicate that a single person could help Iran launder huge amounts of money.
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Only one has proved that it's a safe space to launder a threatened nomination, under the shield of a "fair and balanced" straight-news interview.
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In January, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay $630 million in fines over the scheme, which could have been used to launder money out of Russia.
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A disproportionate amount of illicit bitcoin transactions are funnelled through Europe, with criminals taking advantage of cryptocurrency gambling and mixing sites to launder their money.
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The policies of the post-Cold War Washington consensus have enriched the 1 percent and offered new ways to shelter and launder money across borders.
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He was accused of running a sham charity to launder money for his consulting business to admit the children of wealthy people into elite schools.
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Law enforcement officials have also tracked their efforts to launder money through the drug trade in Colombia and Venezuela, as well as certain African countries.
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He said authorities should act to protect consumers and ensure that cryptocurrencies could not be used to evade tax, launder money or finance criminal activities.
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The former abbot faces charges of conspiracy to launder money and receive stolen goods, as well as taking over land unlawfully to build meditation centers.
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The charges included conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy against the United States and failing to register as foreign agents of Ukraine's former pro-Russian government.
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It enlisted organized crime groups to launder money and commit other crimes, and used its control of energy supplies to spread corruption, the report said.
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He ran a legitimate flower business, they say, because it was the perfect cover for the 'Ndrangheta to expand overseas, smuggle drugs and launder illicit profits.
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The money laundering scandal has spread to Sweden where Swedbank in March dismissed its chief executive over allegations its Baltic accounts were used to launder money.
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HSBC agreed in 2012 to pay $1.92 billion in U.S. fines, mainly for allowing itself to be used to launder drug money flowing out of Mexico.
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Former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business partner, Richard Gates, have been charged with conspiracy against the US, conspiracy to launder money, and other charges.
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Sources familiar with the indictment said Pinedo was named as helping Russian conspirators launder money as well as purchase Facebook ads and pay for rally supplies.
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Thailand's attorney general said in November it would charge the temple's abbot, Phra Dhammachayo, and four others with conspiracy to launder money and receive stolen goods.
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The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles, said it seeks to seize assets "involved in and traceable to an international conspiracy to launder money misappropriated from 1MDB".
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The property market may well be attracting foreign criminals and corrupt officials seeking to launder dirty money, notes David Eby, the attorney-general of British Columbia.
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In a statement, HSBC said initiatives taken since 2008 have been aimed at curbing client use of the bank's accounts to launder money and evade taxes.
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José, a "self-described" bricklayer from Dallas, was accused of helping his brother, a notorious Los Zetas kingpin, launder drug money through American quarter-horse racing.
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Russian organized crime, Middle Eastern dictators such as Muammar Ghaddafi's entourage, and senior Putin Administration officials have used Moldovan banks to launder up to $85033 billion.
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Using a complex scheme involving shell companies, fraudulent checks and bank slips, the three arrested individuals helped launder nearly 1 billion reais ($249 million), prosecutors said.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Danish lender Danske has already lost its chief executive on news that one of its Estonian branches was used to launder Russian money.
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Specifically, those rules would require advisory firms to develop a written program to deter bad actors from using advisors to launder money to finance illicit activities.
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In January, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay $630 million in fines for organizing the scheme that could have been used to launder money out of Russia.
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At the time, Russian mobsters were beginning to invest in high-end real estate, which offered an ideal vehicle to launder money from their criminal enterprises.
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He had deep business relationships in China and used a network of shell companies to launder the millions of dollars he made, the prosecution memo said.
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The US government alleges Low played a central role in a scheme to launder billions of dollars from the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad.
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On Wednesday, Zarrab testified that he paid Caglayan more than 31 million Euros ($36.7 million) in bribes to help Iran launder money and dodge international sanctions.
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Russian military stole information of 500,000 voters Eleven of the Russians are charged with identity theft, conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to commit computer crimes.
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Season 3, Episode 11: "Abiquiu"It's worth knowing that Skyler suggests that they launder Walt's money through a car wash instead of a laser tag facility.
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"The anonymous nature of virtual currencies leads to the possibility that they may be used to launder money, finance crime, and so forth," Baudot-Trajenberg said.
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Professional money launderers working for global threat organizations launder funds in ways that superficially appear entirely legitimate, failing to raise red flags through conventional detection strategies.
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Manafort will be tried on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money in federal court in D.C. in September.
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Larger ranchers, truckers and traders have set up elaborate schemes to "launder" cattle raised on illegally deforested land on the legitimate market, said analysts and officials.
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Walter Sr. ends up using the website as a way to launder the money he makes from selling meth by making consistent, anonymous donations to himself.
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He originally faced seven charges brought by the special counsel, including obstruction of justice, failure to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money.
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They face charges including conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy against the United States and failing to register as foreign agents of Ukraine's former pro-Russian government.
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A judge misconstrued a reference to "smurfs," a term of art for people who launder tiny amounts of money, in a report by a government investigator.
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That Facebook would try to launder uncritical praise of its election security efforts ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election as actual news is no surprise.
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Those financial positions enabled Mr. DiMura, 0003, to steal $190,000 from campaigns, then use a charity he operated to launder the money, according to an indictment.
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The bank has also faced accusations that it colluded with other banks to manipulate benchmark interest rates and that it helped wealthy Russians launder $10 billion.
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Manafort faces seven counts in his second trial on charges brought by Mueller's team, including conspiracy to launder money, witness tampering and lying to the government.
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The lawsuit alleges Goldman played a "central role" in implicating IPIC in a scheme to launder money from Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
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The former abbot, 72, faces charges of conspiracy to launder money and receive stolen goods, as well as taking over land unlawfully to build meditation centers.
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The more lucrative or sophisticated the crime, the more necessary it is to recruit locals who can readily launder money through legitimate businesses or corrupt officials.
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Manafort is charged in the second trial with failing to register as a foreign lobbyist, conspiracy to launder money and tampering with witnesses after his indictment.
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Other counts in the indictment include conspiracy to launder money, false statements and seven counts of failing to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.
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"Sometimes spending money on precious rugs is a way to launder money; sometimes it is a way to spend the money you have laundered," Hays said.
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Indeed, Manafort and Gates were also charged in October with conspiracy to launder money, and in February were charged with additional counts of bank fraud conspiracy.
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The indictment accuses Manafort and Gates of orchestrating a nearly decade-long conspiracy to covertly work for Ukrainian interests and launder millions of dollars through offshore accounts.
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Manafort also faces charges in a Washington, D.C., court of conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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Black jeans that aren't so black means you've had to launder them a dozen times or more, which means a dozen cycles' worth of escapades and romps.
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The intent, he gradually realized, was to launder timber that had already been illegally cut elsewhere—places like national parks, indigenous community lands, and other protected areas.
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The corruption watchdog NGO Global Witness sends an investigator with a false foreign identity to see if United States lawyers will help launder money of questionable provenance.
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Casinos are a classic way to launder money, as individuals can withdraw significant amounts for chips, gamble very little, and then cash out to move the remainder.
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VENEZUELA CONNECTIONS In recent years, U.S. prosecutors have examined the role Puerto Rico's offshore banks have played in efforts to launder Venezuelan funds through the United States.
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U.S. prosecutors sued last week to seize more than $1 billion in assets they said were tied to a scheme to launder money stolen from the fund.
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That might mean tracking a drugs syndicate from Latin America to Europe, or working out how criminal gangs launder their money, or following paedophiles on the web.
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The company was formed to lead the court-appointed oversight of HSBC, which in 2012 admitted to allowing drug cartels to launder hundreds of millions of dollars.
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The four men engaged in bribery and a multi-year conspiracy to launder the proceeds of narcotics trafficking through accounts located in the United States, prosecutors said.
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The lawsuits seek to seize more than $1 billion of assets allegedly siphoned from the fund, saying they were part of "an international conspiracy to launder money".
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Sall helped launder tens of millions of dollars from the gambling enterprise, prosecutors said when they announced that all three condo owners pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
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Church leaders, including two of Jeffs' brothers, are among 22 FLDS members charged in a two-count indictment alleging food-stamp fraud and conspiracy to launder money.
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Shahnaz is accused of obtaining credit cards and a loan using false information and using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to launder the money on behalf of ISIS.
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A leader of the Cachiros gang had testified during a 2017 trial in New York that Tony Hernandez had taken a bribe to help launder drug funds.
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Most troubling is the fact that terrorists, arms dealers, drug traffickers and other criminals use anonymous companies to finance their activities and conceal and launder their profits.
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All of them face charges of conspiracy to commit fraud, conspiracy to launder money, and aggravated identity theft, and some may face fraud ad money laundering charges.
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All of them face charges of conspiracy to commit fraud, conspiracy to launder money, and aggravated identity theft, and some may face fraud and money laundering charges.
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Reporting based on the documents has suggested that the firm helped form companies used to launder money and worked with clients who were subject to international sanctions.
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It often uses its contacts in the area to launder money or smuggle drugs and cigarettes, but not at a large enough scale to generate significant revenue.
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By Mr. Vásquez's telling, Mr. Ramírez said that during Ms. Fujimori's 2011 campaign for president, "la china" as she is known, gave him $15 million to launder.
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An option for the United States is instead to go after individual companies, including those in China, that are essentially helping North Koreans "launder money," Kazianis said.
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Court records and law enforcement documents show that several individuals with questionable backgrounds have used the program to launder money and gain entry to the United States.
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U.S. authorities said Boyle made off with approximately $500,000 during his latest crime spree and used his aerial photography business to launder a portion of the proceeds.
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Mr. Manafort pleaded not guilty to those charges and additional charges related to his alleged failure to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money.
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While FSKN agents cracked down on low-level drug use, the agency's leaders were allegedly helping one of Russia's most notorious gangs smuggle cocaine and launder money.
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Officials were concerned that Mr. Deripaska might try to come to the United States to launder illicit profits through real estate, a former law enforcement official said.
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This structure means that the virtual currency continues to be an easy target for people who want to manipulate its price or use it to launder money.
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Indeed, organized criminal groups in Mexico launder money in a range of businesses in the United States, as illustrated in a blacklist compiled by the U.S. Treasury.
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The former campaign chairman, 68, was hit with five additional criminal counts on Friday, including lying, conspiracy to launder money and acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
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Criminals and corrupt government officials and businesses use anonymous companies – usually registered in Western, developed countries – to move and hide assets, launder money, and evade law enforcement.
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A 2008 investigation by Vietnamese officials and the Wildlife Conservation Society found that about half of 78 wildlife farms surveyed regularly launder animals caught in the wild.
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"When companies launder advertising by paying an influencer to pretend that their endorsement or review is untainted by a financial relationship, this is illegal payola," Chopra writes.
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Immigration hawks have concluded that the sponsor system essentially amounts to a way for parents to bring their children to the US illegally and launder their status.
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The other counts accuse Mr. Guzmán of making, importing and distributing drugs; using firearms to further his operation; and conspiring to launder the profits of his empire.
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Last month, U.S. prosecutors charged Low and two former Goldman Sachs bankers with conspiracy to launder 1MDB money and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Until the mid-2000s, the gentlemen's agreement among the embezzlers held that they keep a modest appearance at home and launder their money in Dubai and Toronto.
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A dual national of Iran and Turkey, Zarrab is cooperating with U.S. prosecutors in the trial of a Turkish bank executive accused of helping Iran launder money.
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Leissner, a former partner for Goldman Sachs in Asia, pleaded guilty in the United States to conspiring to launder money and violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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The charges against him in the Washington case include conspiring to launder money, conspiring to defraud the United States and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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The charges against Manafort include conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent working on behalf of Yanukovych's government, which lost power in 2014.
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Investigators are looking into the activities of two unnamed Deutsche Bank employees alleged to have helped clients set up offshore firms to launder money, the prosecutor's office said.
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"Handschumacher confessed to his involvement in the crime post Miranda and admitted to using his cell phone to launder cryptocurrency in amounts greater than $100,000," the complain concludes.
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Manafort and Gates pleaded not guilty to the indictment, which included charges that they conspired to launder money and hide their work on behalf of the Ukrainian government.
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The element of surprise is disruptive but without it, there would be time for black-money holders to launder their funds by purchasing gold, foreign currency or property.
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Corbally introduced Kroll operatives to French Resistance and intelligence veterans in Paris, and explained how the Vatican Bank was used by the mafia to launder money in Italy.
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You claimed just now, as you do in the book, that the Russian mafia has been using Trump-branded real estate to launder money for over three decades.
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Manafort and Gates were charged with conspiracy to launder money, failing to report overseas bank accounts, failing to register as agents for foreign entities, and making false statements.
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Piles of ill-gotten income have long been easy to launder into gold or property, where using notes for at least part of a purchase is the norm.
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The comfort for the poor was that the greedy, tax-dodging rich would suffer more, as they struggled to launder their suitcases full of cash by year-end.
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Prosecutors said the targets were businessman Adir Assad and lawyer Rodrigo Tacla Duran, who were accused of helping to launder money for the homebuilders involved in the scheme.
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The U.S. alleges that Meng, Huawei and a Hong Kong-based subsidiary Skycom Technologies, committed wire fraud, obscured justice, conspired to launder money and broke sanctions against Iran.
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The EU ministers also want to regulate globally the so-called crypto assets like bitcoin, to make sure they cannot be used to finance terrorism or launder money.
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According to federal prosecutors, Tony pledged to help Rivera get government agencies to pay money owed to Rivera's front-companies, entities the drug lord used to launder money.
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Brokers say applicants go through a rigorous three-stage process designed to weed out those on an international watch list, or looking to duck sanctions or launder money.
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Traffickers illegally launder illicit gains, take advantage of informal banking systems and benefit when investors unknowingly back companies that profit from slavery in their supply chains, organizers said.
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In 2012 HSBC agreed to a $1.9 billion settlement with U.S. authorities after admitting that its poor controls had allowed drug cartels to launder at least $881 million.
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Prosecutors have said that the men engaged in a multi-year scheme to launder proceeds of narcotics trafficking and bribery offenses through accounts located in the United States.
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Manafort and business associate Rick Gates, another campaign aide, pleaded not guilty in November to federal charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller including conspiracy to launder money.
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He is scheduled to go on trial later this month in Washington, D.C., on charges of conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign lobbyist.
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Cryptocurrencies provide a means for terrorist organizations and criminal syndicates to launder and relocate wealth across the globe quickly, easily, and privately, potentially even replacing bulk-cash smuggling.
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Jackson last week refused to dismiss the charges, which include conspiring to launder money, conspiring to defraud the United States and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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The Supercundi supermarket chain was kept in the name of three brothers to hide assets and launder money but is owned by the FARC, the top prosecutor said.
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Dutch police have arrested 10 men suspected of using bitcoin to launder up to $22 million for drug dealers selling their product through anonymous online markets, Reuters reported.
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In the D.C. trial set to start in September, Manafort is facing seven separate charges, including conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign lobbyist.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Chinese authorities say they have busted an underground money-smuggling ring used to launder more than $4.4 billion through the Asian gambling hub of Macau.
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The documents reveal a network of secret offshore deals and loans allegedly used by a circle of close associates of President Vladimir Putin to launder billions of dollars.
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That time Bridges got a cooperating witness to teach him how to launder bitcoins Curtis Green didn't find out who had done him wrong until much, much later.
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The parents are accused of paying off Rick Singer ... the alleged ringleader who created a fake nonprofit, charitable foundation that served as a front to launder the payments.
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This would include levying hefty fines on the Chinese banks that, unwittingly or otherwise, launder money for Pyongyang and facilitate dollar transactions on behalf of North Korean entities.
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In a court filing, AUSTRAC says many of the payments were made by people convicted of drug dealing, using CBA to launder drug money by sending it offshore.
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"The operation was a failure," said Ms. Kodama, who recently published a memoir detailing how she helped launder money for years and the indignities she endured in prison.
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Mr. Nunes's recusal on Thursday was welcomed by Democrats, who had questioned whether White House officials had used the congressman essentially to launder the information about incidental surveillance.
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Julius Baer itself has been scrutinized by American prosecutors, who may have considered charging the bank for its role in helping to launder bribe money to soccer officials.
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While preschool teachers used to launder nap mats and blankets at home every week, Morgan and her classmates now handle that as part of their life skills class.
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Deutsche Bank has also had to deal with accusations that it colluded with other banks to manipulate benchmark interest rates and helped wealthy Russians to launder $10 billion.
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The question I had to ask myself is, 'Am I going to use this money to launder contributions on Facebook, to pay 70 dollars for every dollar contribution?
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Shrewdly leading with identity, the DTP coalition acted on Haacke's systemic critique, wielding the woke museum as a PR tool to target Kanders's reputation rather than launder it.
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But the rise of bitcoin, which is unregulated in many countries, has stoked concerns it can be used as a vehicle to launder money and finance extremist groups.
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He started some 278,2126 shell corporations in Delaware for high-net-worth Russians and opened Citibank accounts for them, allowing them to launder funds through the American bank.
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In November, the AFP said there had been three separate investigations since October 2018 into Chinese nationals creating shell companies in Australia to launder money and evade tax.
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So he got into doing a lot of strange operations in Africa, partly just to launder money, like timber operations and black market gold, that sort of thing.
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They accused U.S.-born Browder, 54, of setting up companies to launder millions of dollars and said they suspected he may have poisoned four former colleagues, including Magnitsky.
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Buying a home in the US or Canada has been an effective way for foreign residents to launder some money and get their wealth out of harm's way.
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October 30, 2017 - Manafort and Trump campaign official Rick Gates are indicted on 12 charges including conspiracy to launder money, making false statements and conspiracy against the United States.
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Marty's massive casino boat, which will likely be the setting for much of season 3, will now be able to launder millions of dollars for the Mexican drug cartel.
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Prosecutors have said that the four men engaged in a multi-year scheme to launder proceeds of narcotics trafficking and bribery offenses through accounts located in the United States.
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Zarrab and his co-defendants are accused of using the U.S. financial system to launder hundreds of millions of dollars from gold trading through a series of shell companies.
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He was also charged with conspiring to launder money, acting as an unregistered agent and making misleading statements about his work abroad, and attempting to interfere with potential witnesses.
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Prohibitionists worry that any attempt to lower prices would both bring in more customers, leaving incentives to poach unchanged, and make it far easier to launder illegal, poached horn.
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It also called for greater controls on banks and other businesses that helped launder money, and moves to ban secret companies that hide the identities of their real owners.
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Deutsche Bank was already under federal investigation for helping wealthy Russians launder money when it struck a deal last year to sell a property it co-owned in California.
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A 2017 BuzzFeed News exposé detailed, via obtained emails, how Breitbart actively courted the right-wing online fringes and helped to launder white nationalist talking points into the mainstream.
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Someone that&aposs willing to break the law, work for a hostile foreign government, and then launder the money so that didn&apost have to pay taxes on it.
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But it often leaks chemicals into rocks, soil and rivers, working conditions can be appalling and the gold such mining yields is often smuggled or used to launder money.
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The wiretap transcripts document ICBC managers in at least 30 conversations with six leaders of Chinese networks in Spain, who police believe were seeking new avenues to launder money.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Three European central bankers are claiming oversight over Facebook's planned virtual currency to ensure it will not jeopardize the financial system or be used to launder money.
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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reckons that every year crooks launder between $800bn and $2trn that they have made from trafficking, prostitution, corruption and other misdeeds.
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A leader of the Cachiros gang had testified during a trial in March 2017 in New York that "Tony" Hernandez had taken a bribe to help launder drug funds.
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Around 1,000 miles (1,600 km) further south in the resort of Sochi, Putin told reporters that crypto-currencies could be used to launder money, evade taxes and finance terrorism.
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The company was shuttered in May 2013 amid U.S. efforts to crack down on the use of digital currencies including bitcoin to evade law enforcement and launder illicit proceeds.
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Bongo and his father, Omar, Gabon's former president, were subjects of a U.S. Senate investigation into foreign government officials who allegedly used the American financial system to launder assets.
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HSBC has been sued by the families of U.S. citizens murdered by drug gangs in Mexico, claiming the bank let cartels launder billions of dollars to operate their business.
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"Panthongtae Shinawatra will be prosecuted...on charges of money laundering and conspiring to launder money of the amount of 10 million baht," the Attorney General said in a statement.
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The bad news is they may not pay the loan back (not even with interest), because the company would prefer they act as a front and launder some money.
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The clinic would have been an ideal way to launder some of the cash Hanson was making in the country, and perhaps a successful business in its own right.
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One source close to Hanson told me that Cipriani was paid a percentage of the principle to launder the money in the casino—that it was all arranged beforehand.
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The EVE Online community—a space faring MMO—has long been worried that the game's digital currency could easily be manipulated and used to launder money for criminal organizations.
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Details: The superseding indictment contains five counts: conspiracy against the U.S., conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, and false statements.
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Hence co-ordinated global efforts are required to crack down on corporate anonymity and to stop the middlemen who make it so easy for crooks to launder their loot.
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Investigators are looking into the activities of two unnamed Deutsche Bank employees alleged to have helped clients set up offshore firms to launder money, the prosecutor's office has said.
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While the practice is common, dollar-clearing can be risky for banks since it can be used by criminals and militant groups planning attacks to launder and move money.
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You can be sure that the Caracas cartel will try to use the petro to launder the remaining bits of Venezuela's national treasury and productive economy that they steal.
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The former Trump associate is facing seven separate counts in D.C., including failing to register as a lobbyist for a foreign country and bank fraud, conspiracy to launder money.
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Five executives convicted of money laundering and fraud in the case had been accused of using a web of Swiss bank accounts to launder cash linked to the deal.
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And the U.N. has long provided a global stage for dictators and theocrats to justify and launder their crimes: Iran's Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin, Cuba's Fidel Castro. Etc.
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On the other hand, the domestic money laundering statute does require the Government to prove that the money the defendants conspired to launder was the proceeds of a crime.
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At this point, though, the papers have not established the degree to which these strategies are being used, as some suspect, to manipulate markets, evade taxes or launder money.
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It is almost impossible for our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to investigate who benefits from American incorporation to launder illicit proceeds or exert malign influence within our economy.
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While offshore bank accounts or companies can be used to avoid tax or launder money, they can also be used for legitimate purposes, in full accordance with the law.
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Gold bars fraudulently stamped with the logos of major refineries are being inserted into the global market to launder smuggled or illegal gold, refining and banking executives tell Reuters.
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The couple had left Honduras after losing their jobs when authorities raided the used-clothing chain where they worked, alleging the owners used the business to launder drug money.
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Mr. Moreno and the middleman, Leonardo Luis Pinilla Gómez, were charged in the United States with one count of conspiracy to launder money in order to promote foreign bribery.
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This point could be crucial as prosecutors build their case that Manafort hid his foreign lobbying work for Ukrainian politicians and conspired to launder the proceeds from the work.
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"If that funneling could launder the emolument, the clause would become a dead letter," said Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law expert at Harvard who's also part of the lawsuit.
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In response, he forges an alliance with a shadowy exile turned Israeli citizen, played by the ever-reliable David Strathairn, who wants to launder $100 million through his fund.
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That, many worry, leaves plenty of room for people to launder money or finance terrorism activities and engage in other fraudulent behaviors — especially in countries where corruption is rampant.
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Earlier this month, ING agreed to pay 775 million euros ($910.20 million) in penalties for failing to stop several companies to allegedly launder money over a six-year period.
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The two former aides have been charged with conspiracy to launder money and failure to register as foreign agents in connection with work for a pro-Russia Ukrainian party.
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Dutch bank ING this month admitted criminals had been able to launder money through its accounts and agreed to pay 775 million euros ($900 million) to settle the case.
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The big idea this time out is to filter all those ill-gotten gains through a casino, seemingly the perfect machine to launder money, and maybe even multiply it.
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Some of the territories have also allowed companies to conceal their true owners, and lacked criminal penalties for lawyers or accountants that help criminals launder money, the commission said.
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Regulators around the world require banks to vet customers so that criminals cannot mask their identity through complex company and ownership structures to launder money or sidestep international sanctions.
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Investigators are looking at the activities of unidentified Deutsche Bank employees alleged to have helped clients to set up offshore firms to launder money, the Frankfurt prosecutor's office said.
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But Assange would have another, unexpected second act in 22011, when Russian agents would exploit WikiLeaks to launder documents stolen from the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign.
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The purpose, they said, was to trade with the bank and other North Korean entities, as well as to launder money and import prohibited materials used in weapons making.
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India fears that if it agrees to Nepal's demand to allow Nepalis to exchange unlimited amounts, a large number of Indians may launder their ill-gotten old notes through Nepal.
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Manafort has pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiring to launder money, bank and tax fraud and failing to register as a foreign agent for the pro-Russia Ukraine government.
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After the victims transferred money to the callers, a network of U.S.-based runners moved expeditiously to liquidate and launder fraud proceeds through the use of anonymous stored value cards.
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But in fact, Sylvestri admitted in 2014 that Bioscan was just a shell company that helped a wide-ranging fraud ring launder more than $2.8 million in fraudulent Medicare reimbursements.
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The plot focuses on Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) who moves to Missouri with his family (including his wife Wendy, played by Laura Linney) to launder money for a drug cartel.
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The charges filed earlier this year include conspiring against the United States, conspiring to launder money, failing to register as an agent of a foreign principal and providing false statements.
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Of particular interest to investigators could be Penn's revelations that the drug lord discussed "a host of corrupt major corporations" that helped Guzman launder money from his vast criminal enterprise.
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The complaint alleges that the company made nearly $2 million in purchases through hacked accounts and their associated credit cards, using purchases as a way to launder the resulting cash.
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In the first case, Yassin M. Aref and Mohammed M. Hossain were convicted in 2006 on suspicion of trying to launder money from the sale of shoulder-to-air missiles.
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Manafort is charged with conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent working on behalf of the government of Ukraine's former pro-Russia President Viktor Yanukovych.
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"Anyone who would be tempted to use an account in an institution to launder money, the last place he would want to come to is IOR," Franssu told Vatican Radio.
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Princess Cristina was on the board of Nóos, and she and her husband owned a real estate company, Aizoon, that prosecutors say was used to launder illegal revenue from Nóos.
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Related: Bitcoin value drops after hackers steal $65 million worth of it Reddit users quickly raised questions about the giveaway, suggesting it was a ploy to launder the stolen money.
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Ma, her company Dandong Hongxiang Industrial Development (DHID), and the three others were charged with buying front companies to launder money made through transactions with Korea Kwangson Banking Corporation (KKBC).
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PARIS, Feb 21.1 (Reuters) - A French court will rule on Wednesday whether UBS, Switzerland's largest bank, helped wealthy French clients evade taxes between 21 and 20.8851 and launder the proceeds.
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The government has alleged Low and other conspired to launder billions of dollars embezzled from 1MDB, using part of the money to influence the U.S. investigation of the bank scandal.
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Last year, the former head of Ukraine's security service, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, accused Ihor Kononenko, a close ally of the Ukrainian president, of using the BVI-registered firm to launder money.
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Nevertheless, Shalev cannot fathom the stupidity of art market upselling and instead infers that Salvator Mundi's high price was a cover to launder $300 million to Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev.
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Goldman Sachs (GS) played a "central role" in implicating IPIC in the scheme to launder money from Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad, the fund said in a statement.
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As part of the deal, Manafort had agreed to plead guilty to two felony charges — conspiracy against the U.S. and conspiracy to launder money — and fully cooperate with Mueller's probe.
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Manafort, who was convicted on eight counts of bank and tax fraud earlier this month, faces charges including conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent.
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Days before his second trial in a DC federal court was set to begin, Manafort flipped — admitting he masterminded an illegal scheme to lobby for Ukrainians and launder the revenue.
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There are more nefarious reasons to use LLCs, including to illegally hide assets, shield profits from taxation and launder drug money or funds embezzled from a foreign company or government.
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As revealed through their indictments, they knew how to launder money through a variety of schemes, all of which evaded government scrutiny until the special counsel's investigation focused on them.
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Bank accounts used to launder illicit proceeds may be set up for personal or business use, but are most often used to cleanse funds on behalf of a threat organization.
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Manafort and Gates were indicted last week on 12 counts, including includes charges of conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money and unregistered agent of a foreign principal.
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The malware allowed them to steal login credentials and gain unauthorized access to victims' online bank accounts, steal the money and then launder it through U.S. and foreign bank accounts.
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In the United States, Congress should increase transparency through better financial disclosure laws making it harder for oligarchs to launder their money and engage in destabilizing activities in the country.
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Greek police earlier said the suspect, who was picked up on a U.S. warrant, was thought to have used bitcoin to launder 'at least' $4 billion earned through illicit activities.
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The United States Justice Department has said American financial institutions were used to launder at least $4.5 billion siphoned from 1MDB and used by Mr. Najib, his family and associates.
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When Marty makes their deadline on the $8 million, the cartel ships another $50 million to him immediately — the first part of the $500 million Marty has promised to launder.
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The special counsel's office unsealed an indictment charging Paul Manafort with conspiring to launder money, conspiracy against the US, and failing to register as a foreign agent, among other crimes.
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Just days later, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators charged President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and another aide, Rick Gates, with conspiring to launder money and other charges.
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The German police raided the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt on Thursday as part of an investigation into whether the bank helped criminals launder money through offshore tax havens.
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In 2012, HSBC agreed to pay $1.9 billion and to submit to years of heightened scrutiny after the authorities found that the bank had helped Mexican drug cartels launder money.
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The only way to spend the cash you have received without attracting scrutiny is piecemeal, through small purchases, or to launder it like Walter White through a cash-heavy business.
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When employees cooked up schemes to launder money, violate sanctions, manipulate markets, avoid taxes or mislead customers, there were few internal checks and balances to detect or stop such behavior.
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Pinedo was not involved with the Trump campaign, but in February 2018 pleaded guilty to identity fraud for helping Russian conspirators launder money, purchase Facebook ads and pay for supplies.
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Organised crime then uses techniques developed over decades to launder the money, giving the alliance much higher rewards than a hold-up or bank vault robbery, with much less risk.
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Guzmán, 61, faces 10 counts, including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds, international distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs, and use of firearms.
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The revelations about Epstein's donations — and the way he apparently used his relationships with scientists to launder his public image — raise new questions about sexual assault cases and their aftermath.
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Aierken Saimaiti said his part in the racket had been to launder the proceeds, overseeing the removal from Kyrgyzstan of at least $700m in dirty money between 2011 and 2016.
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"Singer's foundation purported to be a charitable organization, but was actually a front Singer used to launder the money that parents paid him," said Lelling, the federal prosecutor in Boston.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his intimates have erected their power base upon similar offshore networks—and may well remain reliant on American anonymity to help launder their dirty billions.
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In 2012 HSBC agreed to pay a $1.92 billion in fines to U.S. authorities for allowing itself to be used to launder drug money out of Mexico and other compliance lapses.
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And so they tend to use quite elaborate methods to move money...I mean, if you can think of a way to launder money, the Russians are pretty good at it.
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Financial Action Task Force (FATF), set up 30 years ago to tackle money laundering, told countries to tighten oversight of cryptocurrency exchanges to stop digital coins being used to launder cash.
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The gang has grown rapidly in recent years, and investigators say it has come to control cocaine and gun shipments into Brazil, while also developing increasingly sophisticated methods to launder money.
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Manafort has pleaded not guilty to charges that include conspiring to launder money, bank and tax fraud and failing to register as a foreign agent for the pro-Russia Ukraine government.
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A former Credit Suisse banker pleaded guilty last month to a U.S. charge that she helped launder money from a kickback scheme involving the loans to state-owned companies in Mozambique.
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The Danish authorities convicted the owners of several exchange agencies in Copenhagen in 2016 for having helped criminal networks launder million of dollars of suspicious funds by using 500-euro banknotes.
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Manafort is charged in DC with failing to report his work as an agent for Ukraine to the US government, conspiracy to launder money, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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Browder, who leads a campaign against Russian officials he blames for the 2009 death of his Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky while investigating fraud, claims Danske Bank helped Russian citizens launder money.
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The Justice Department prosecutors charged Mr. Katsyv's firm in 2013 with using real estate purchases in New York to launder a portion of the profits from a tax scheme in Russia.
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The DEA has a long-standing arrest warrant against Philippe and lists him as one of its Most Wanted Fugitives, accusing him of conspiracy to import cocaine and launder monetary instruments.
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"This would mean that there is a real danger of losing one's assets when attempting to launder money through the Estonian financial system," Finance Minister Toomas Toniste said in a statement.
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Property transactions provide ways to launder such money, such as declaring a purchase at the lowest plausible value, and then reselling it to a friendly party at the highest plausible price.
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Last November America's Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that a former senior partner at Goldman, Tim Leissner, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money and to violate foreign bribery laws.
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Cybercriminals are turning to new technologies to launder their ill-gotten gains, including recruiting fake Uber drivers, shady Airbnb hosts and crypto conversion specialists via the underground dark web, experts say.
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Interestingly enough, BTC-e was apparently used by two corrupt U.S. federal agents, which used BTC-e "to launder their criminal proceeds" to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars each.
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According to federal prosecutors in San Francisco in 2009, Kiritchenko helped Lazarenko launder millions of dollars obtained through extortion by purchasing luxury real estate in the United States and other countries.
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Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice moved to seize more than $1 billion of assets it said was tied to an international conspiracy to launder funds funnelled away from 1MDB.
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The short version (my story from December tells the more detailed version) is that Hanson gave Cipriani $2.5 million to launder and Cipriani lost it at the blackjack tables, possibly intentionally.
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At the very least, with his constant need for new infusions of cash and his well-documented troubles with creditors, Trump made an easy "mark" for anyone looking to launder money.
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The data also showed that the world's top cryptocurrency exchanges from countries with weak anti-money laundering regulations (AML) have been used to launder $903 billion worth of bitcoins since 2009.
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Reza Zarrab, who is cooperating with U.S. prosecutors in the criminal trial of a Turkish Halkbank executive accused of helping to launder money for Iran, has already implicated President Tayyip Erdogan.
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"Cryptocurrencies are great if you're trying to launder money or hide money, so we have to be very conscious of that," Powell said in testimony before the House Financial Services Committee.
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We have learned, in exposé after exposé, about how many layers of protection Harvey Weinstein had: lawyers, talent agents, investors, journalists, an entire "complicity machine" set up to launder his abuses.
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Russia President Vladimir Putin's close friend and godfather to his child, concert cellist Sergei Roldugin, agreed to be a front for the Russian president to launder $2 billion to offshore accounts.
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It's also an attempt to launder his legacy, by claiming undue credit for the state of the economy and implicitly justifying the Republican Party's submission—especially his own—to Donald Trump.
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One of the reasons why law enforcement has difficulty making cases against drug traffickers is that criminals are easily able to launder their money through anonymous shell companies, the report stated.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's financial watchdog is looking into a report that dozens of Swiss banks may have helped launder more than $600 million from Russia in a global scheme dubbed "Laundromat".
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News reports based on millions of leaked Mossack Fonseca spurred global criticism that the firm was helping the rich and powerful to use offshore companies to evade taxes and launder money.
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That 170-page argument represents Ulbricht's last hope of escaping a life sentence after being convicted of running a conspiracy to traffic in drugs, launder money, and sell computer hacking tools.
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He turned the black bow tie into a black snap-on shirt collar that would be as easy to launder as a sweatband (especially since that's how it ends up functioning).
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Then they start running low on cloth, so they have to find ways to launder and sterilize the soiled rags and reuse them even though they have almost no clean water.
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Between the two cases, he faces a slew of charges ranging from bank and tax fraud, to conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent for Ukraine.
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Mr. Manafort, 69, is in the meantime facing another trial next month on seven charges, including obstruction of justice, failure to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money.
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Hezbollah is considered a terrorist organization by the United States, and American officials say the group has long had a presence in South America, where it has helped launder drug money.
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Danske Bank has admitted that its Estonian subsidiary helped thousands of customers, most of whom were not residents of Estonia, to launder tens of billions of euros from 2007 to 2015.
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But rancor over the extent to which Epstein used his association with Harvard to launder his reputation has reached one of the university's crown jewels, the prestigious Kennedy School of Government.
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" FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra recently said, "When companies launder advertising by paying an influencer to pretend that their endorsement or review is untainted by a financial relationship, this is illegal payola.
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Doom programmer and game industry legend John Carmack recently went on Joe Rogan's podcast, a show downloaded by millions each month and a favored space for men to launder bad ideas.
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For months, Representative Adam Schiff has been trying to persuade people to pay more attention to the possibility that Donald Trump helped launder money for Russians when he was a businessman.
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SYDNEY — The chief executive of one of Australia's biggest banks will resign next year, as the lender struggles with accusations that criminals used its cash machines to launder nearly $35 million.
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Brazilian prosecutors have accused Rodrigo Tacla Duran of helping to launder money for homebuilders in a scheme between building firms and executives at Brazil's Petrobas, a police statement in November said.
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Lawmakers in the U.S. and elsewhere have argued that Libra poses a risk to the global financial system because its payments network could be used to launder money or finance terrorism.
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Browder on March 4 filed a criminal complaint with Swedish authorities that Swedbank accounts had allegedly be used to launder money to the tune of $176 million between 2006 and 2012.
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It is unseemly, at the very least, for a former director of the FBI to launder potentially classified material through a law professor in order to get it to the media.
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They and Bagrou also face a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $500,000 fine on the charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments.
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Guzman, 61, faces 10 federal counts, including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds, international distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs, and use of firearms.
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In November, German prosecutors and police officers raided Deutsche Bank's headquarters in Frankfurt as part of an investigation into whether some bank employees helped criminals launder money in offshore tax havens.
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Facebook's project raised privacy concerns among U.S. lawmakers and prompted European central bankers to claim oversight to ensure it would not jeopardise the financial system or be used to launder money.
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It's only a matter of time before criminals start using Whoppercoins to launder ill-gotten earnings, said Professor Emin Gun Sirer of Cornell University, director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts.
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The company was shuttered in May 2013 as Budovsky was arrested amid U.S. efforts to crack down on the use of digital currencies including bitcoin to evade law enforcement and launder money.
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On the money laundering front, Manafort and Gates are both charged with a broader "conspiracy to launder money" and separate specific charges on their failure to report foreign bank and financial accounts.
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Guzman was found guilty of 10 federal criminal counts, including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds to international distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and use of firearms.
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They have also linked 143 politicians, including 12 world leaders, their families and close associates to the use of tax havens to stash their cash, launder money, duck sanctions and evade taxes.
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I'm trying to interfere as little as possible with ordinary uses while making it as hard as possible to hide and launder money, which is why the $100 bill is so popular.
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Someone looking to launder money through art can use financial tools like trusts and freeports to "make a paper trail so difficult to follow" that investigators can't begin to look into it.
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It doesn't hold back from its unconventional premise: Five manicurists run a salon in the trashy city of Palmetto, Florida, that's actually a front to launder money for the local drug lord.
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But national ones have moved towards the American model, by soliciting donations from private and corporate donors—"a way for the rich to launder their souls", as one director cynically puts it.
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Nearly six years later, an Ohio man was arrested Thursday on charges of trying to launder more than $19 million worth of bitcoin he allegedly earned via drug deals on Silk Road.
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The "Panama papers", leaked in 2016, revealed that some of the firms housed in Panama City's gleaming office blocks are dedicated to helping people across the globe launder money and dodge taxes.
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The U.S. accused 242-year-old Ng last year of conspiring to launder money and bribe government officials in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi through bond offerings that Goldman Sachs Group Inc handled.
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Liberty Reserve operated a widely used digital currency, processing more than $8 billion in transactions while helping launder proceeds from Ponzi schemes, credit card trafficking, identity thefts and computer hacking, prosecutors said.
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For years, Italians with good contacts in the papal administration were able to use its bank, the Institute for the Works of Religion, to dodge tax, launder cash and illegally export currency.
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The most recent high-profile sweep saw Diego Salazar, a relative of former oil czar Rafael Ramirez, detained on Friday on charges of helping launder some around 1.35 billion euros to Andorra.
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For Mr. Obermayer and a colleague at Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frederik Obermaier, the fact that anonymous companies created by Mossack Fonseca were being used to evade taxes and launder illicit money justified publication.
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The bank agreed in 21625 to pay $2900 billion to settle charges that it helped Mexican drug cartels, as well as nations like Iran and Libya, skirt economic sanctions and launder funds.
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Two former Goldman Sachs executives allegedly bribed foreign officials and helped launder money through the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad, the US Justice Department alleged in indictments a month ago.
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Prosecutors charged Tencha with one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, one count of conspiracy to harbor aliens, three counts of money laundering and one count of conspiracy to money launder.
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Last month, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced a civil action seeking the recovery of more than $1 billion worth of assets linked to a conspiracy to launder funds taken from 1MDB.
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Zarrab recalled how he paired up with a jeweler in 2012 to devise a scheme in which they would trade gold for cash in order to launder billions of dollars for Iran.
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Prosecutors said Mr. Reader had teamed up with Mr. Noye to help launder $40 million in stolen gold after a theft at Heathrow Airport in 1983, known as the Brinks-Mat robbery.
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Drug traffickers set up shop in the region, grabbing up land and tearing down trees to build landing strips for airplanes, or to set up farms, which they use to launder money.
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Leissner, a former partner for Goldman Sachs in Asia, pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder money and violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, while Low has denied wrongdoing and remains at large.
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Police and U.N. officials are urging countries to offer economic incentives and alternative work opportunities to low-level environmental criminals, while disrupting the tax havens wealthy crooks use to launder their loot.
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All of this made it much harder for any criminals to launder money through exchanges based in the U.S. But just like anything, criminals will find the weakest link in the chain.
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The Washington one charges him with conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy against the United States, making false statements, and charges in connection with failing to register as a foreign agent for Ukraine.
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There are many perfectly legitimate reasons for why someone would want to create a shell company, but the arrangement can also be used to skirt economic sanctions, evade taxes, and launder money.
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Facebook's project has raised privacy concerns among U.S. lawmakers and prompted European central bankers to claim oversight to ensure it would not jeopardize the financial system or be used to launder money.
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It seems the owner Oly Brennan has some ideas of her own, ideas that might offer another way to launder money and who knows, get their name on a prize-winning horse.
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The bank agreed in 2013 to pay $1.9 billion to settle charges that it helped Mexican drug cartels, as well as nations like Iran and Libya, skirt economic sanctions and launder funds.
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AMSTERDAM/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - When Dutch prosecutors trawled through ING's books they found a "women's underwear trader" had been able to launder 150 million euros through the bank's accounts without ringing alarm bells.
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To repair his criminal reputation after pleading guilty to procuring a girl under 22003 for prostitution, Epstein needed to launder his influence through successful academics, which mostly meant courting men in science.
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Guzmán, 61, was convicted of 10 counts, including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds, international distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs, and use of firearms.
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Germany's largest lender, Deutsche Bank, agreed to pay $425 million to New York State's main financial regulator to settle charges that it helped Russian investors to launder as much as $10 billion.
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Guzmán, 61, faces 10 counts, including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to launder the proceeds from narcotics, international distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs, and use of firearms.
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Singer disguised bribe payments as charitable contributions to the Key Worldwide Foundation -- a purported nonprofit that was actually "a front Singer used to launder the money that parents paid him," Lelling said.
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A Russian man was charged with overseeing a black market Bitcoin exchange that helped launder billions of dollars and stood at the nexus of several criminal enterprises, according to a federal indictment.
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Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), part of the Department of Homeland Security, however, has set up a dedicated task force for tracking down those who launder their proceeds with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
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Here, he offers his advice on how: REDUCE CONTACT WITH GERMS Bedspreads are notorious for holding germs, which is why many hotels use duvets with removable covers that are easy to launder.
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On the money laundering front, Manafort and Gates were both charged with a broader "conspiracy to launder money" and separate specific charges on their failure to report foreign bank and financial accounts.
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U.S. prosecutors sued on Wednesday to seize more than $1 billion in assets they said were tied to an international scheme to launder money stolen from the Malaysian state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad.
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You are going to traverse the country in your new home—a semi-trailer—recruiting smurfs, gophers, and coyotes while setting up shell companies and buying cash-heavy businesses to launder your money.
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That payment — also for $200,000 — was wired the following year to the bank account of a Seattle-based construction firm owned by a friend of Trujillo's, an apparent attempt to launder the money.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch bank ING Groep NV admitted criminals had been able to launder money through its accounts on Tuesday and agreed to pay 775 million euros ($900 million) to settle the case.
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The moment, said a top aide to Modi, was an eye-opener for the government, which had not realized just how much shell companies were being used to hide assets and launder money.
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VATICAN CITY, May 12 (Reuters) - A drive to tighten financial governance at the Vatican bank after years of alleged wrongdoing has made it "impossible to launder money" there, its chairman said on Thursday.
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LIMA (Reuters) - A judge on Wednesday ordered Peru's opposition leader, Keiko Fujimori, returned to jail pending a trial over allegations she used her conservative party to launder money for Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
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Yani Rosenthal, a former Honduran legislator who twice ran for president, pleaded guilty to helping the Cachiros launder money through beef sales and was sentenced to three years in prison on Dec. 15.
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In 1984, federal prosecutors charged a Russian native living in Brooklyn with taking part in a massive gasoline bootlegging operation and buying five Trump Tower condos for $4.9 million to launder the proceeds.
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Prosecutors will attempt to convince jurors that the three men used their positions to solicit and receive bribes and kickbacks, and subsequently exploited the US financial system to launder those ill-gotten gains.
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None of this necessarily means that Rybolovlev is using any part of his art collection, including Salvator Mundi, to launder money; it may just mean he has a lot of money to blow.
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As we reported, El Chapo was found guilty for engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds, international distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs and use of firearms.
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As ICBC staff were moving into their new branch, suspected Chinese criminal groups in Spain were looking for new avenues to launder money, according to the wiretap transcripts and Spanish financial security officials.
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The effort could begin at home with legislation to make it harder to launder money through shell companies and cash property deals, and with beefing up instruments like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Cesar Rincon also admitted that he conspired with Roberto Rincon and Shiera to launder the bribes through transactions including wire transfers to accounts in the United States and Switzerland in other people's names.
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The United States accused 423-year-old Ng last year of conspiring to launder money and bribe government officials in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi through bond offerings that Goldman Sachs Group Inc handled.
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In January 2017, Deutsche was fined $630 million by regulators in New York and London for allowing clients of its Moscow office to launder $10 billion out of Russia through questionable stock trades.
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The flow of Russian money in real estate -- and concerns that some buyers were making the purchases to illegally launder money -- had also drawn some attention by US authorities to the Trump business.
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Zarrab, a Turkish and Iranian national, has pleaded guilty and testified against Atilla, saying he used fraudulent food and gold transactions to launder money for Iran with the help of Atilla and others.
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They also said Bandfield's activity enabled his corrupt clients to evade taxes and disclosures required by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, and launder illegal proceeds with unverifiable debit cards and attorney escrow accounts.
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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) this weekend went public with its findings that the firm had, wittingly or unwittingly, helped clients evade or avoid tax, launder money or mask its origins.
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Kleptocrat operates on the premise that the Player is a bad guy trying to launder ill-gotten riches while evading the Investigator, a relentless exemplar of all the anti-corruption killjoys out there.
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Federal prosecutors said last month they were investigating whether OAS used the apartments to pay bribes and to launder money for Workers' Party members, but did not say if they were investigating Lula.
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Why it's important to watch: Walt is on top of the world, raking in millions — too much money to launder even, and Skyler reveals a giant pile of money in a storage unit.
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The two were charged in October -- in a related case in Washington, D.C. -- with conspiracy against the U.S., conspiracy to launder money, false and misleading Foreign Agent Registration (FARA) statements and other counts.
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The agency said Thursday that Tim Leissner, former Southeast Asia chairman, conspired to launder money and violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by paying bribes to government officials in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi.
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Last year ING, the Netherlands' largest financial services provider, admitted criminals had been able to launder money through its accounts and agreed to pay 775 million euros ($900 million) to settle the case.
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Sam Dermody (Kevin L. Johnson): Through this dimwitted realtor and mama's boy, Wendy has gotten a foot into the real estate business, where she can pitch in and launder money by flipping properties.
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Leissner, a former partner at Goldman Sachs in Asia, pleaded guilty last August to conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and agreed to forfeit $43.7 million.
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According to court documents, some gangs were involved in schemes to launder imported cargoes of scrap mobile phones and computers by shipping them from Hong Kong to the North Korean port of Nampo.
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The government said it would overhaul the program, which has been widely criticized as allowing foreigners with ill-gotten gains to buy their way into the country and launder their money in Britain.
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The investigation, based on information that the German authorities gleaned from leaked documents known as the Panama Papers, focuses on allegations that Deutsche Bank helped hundreds of clients launder money from criminal activities.
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Tim Leissner, a former partner for Goldman Sachs in Asia, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and agreed to forfeit $43.7 million.
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That's because, according to the company, the large majority of those trades and sales were being carried out by criminals seeking to launder money through those keys, using them as an unregulated currency.
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When police entered the home of Süleyman Aslan—the C.E.O. of Halk Bank, which Zarrab used to launder money—they found shoeboxes stuffed with four and a half million dollars' worth of cash.
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To launder the money and integrate it into the legitimate economy, couriers carried large amounts of cash over borders, and smugglers ran their proceeds through car dealerships, grocery stores, restaurants or transport companies.
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U.S. prosecutors in 2012 said that in February 2008, Mexican authorities told the CEO of HSBC's Mexico unit that a local drug lord referred to the bank as the "place to launder money".
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He also said an official at the conference had urged him to talk about using digital currencies to launder money because "such topics were likely to resonate" with the audience, the complaint said.
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"It has been claimed that the UK, particularly the London property market, is becoming a destination of choice to launder the proceeds of overseas crime and corruption – so-called 'dirty money,'" she added.
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Created as a means of convenience, they made laundry both easier and cheaper for businessmen who were required to wear a suit every day but weren't paid enough to regularly launder their shirts.
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That contract was signed in mid-February, shortly after a jury found him guilty of 10 counts of criminal charges ranging from running a continuing criminal enterprise to conspiring to launder narcotics proceedings.
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Hansen also admitted to having advised the DIA case officer how to record and transmit the documents without detection, and how to hide and launder any funds received as payment for those secrets.
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Yet the team's longtime star, Rafael Marquez, has been placed on a United States Treasury Department blacklist of people suspected of helping to launder money for drug cartels, which he has vehemently denied.
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In January 2017 — the same month Trump became president — Deutsche was fined $630 million by regulators in New York and London over its role in schemes to launder $10 billion out of Russia.
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The U.S. Department of Justice accused 21-year-old Ng last year of conspiring to launder money and bribe government officials in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi through bond offerings that Goldman Sachs handled.
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Both were accused of working as foreign agents and failing to report that status to the federal government, using shell corporations to launder income and obstruction of justice by lying to the federal government.
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February 12, 2019 - Guzmán is convicted of 10 counts, including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds, international distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs, and use of firearms.
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Launched in March 2014, the operation initially focused on agents known as doleiros (black-market money dealers), who used small businesses, such as petrol stations and car washes, to launder the profits of crime.
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The charges against Manafort include conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent working on behalf of former pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's government, who was ousted in 2014.
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WATCH: JUDGE REVOKES MANAFORT&aposS BAIL, SENDS HIM TO JAIL The onetime Trump campaign manager was indicted in October on charges that included conspiring to launder money and working as an unregistered foreign agent.
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That doesn't merely mean resisting the temptation of sexual favours offered by the unfree; it can also mean steering clear of car-washes and beauty parlours which traffickers may be using to launder money.
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Prosecutors allege Fujimori led a criminal organization that sought to use her 2011 presidential campaign to launder illegal funds for Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction group at the center of the region's biggest graft scandal.
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Forests help capture and store planet-heating carbon dioxide; when they are destroyed by traffickers or by the businesses the traffickers launder their money through, they release that planet-heating gas into the atmosphere.
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In Washington, he had initially faced a second round of charges for allegedly failing to register as an agent of a foreign government, making false statements, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to launder money.
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Critics say the amnesty allows holders of assets gained through graft to launder funds they stashed abroad at a time when prosecutors are investigating Brazil's largest ever corruption scandal involving bribes and political kickbacks.
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Tim Leissner, a former partner of Goldman Sachs in Asia, pleaded guilty last August to conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and agreed to forfeit $43.7 million.
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With such a large shadow economy, some of the money going onto mining rigs is likely to stem from people keen to launder dubious profits - in Kosovo, even apartments can be bought for bitcoin.
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Some revelations of particular interest include: Putin's close friend and godfather to his child, concert cellist Sergei Roldugin, agreed to be a front for the Russian president to launder $26 billion to offshore accounts.
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Charging "conspiracy to launder money," the indictment states the arrangement allowed the hackers to "avoid direct relationships with traditional financial institutions, allowing them to evade greater scrutiny of their identities and sources of funds."
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The charges against Manafort include conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent working on behalf of former pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's government, who was ousted in 23.
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The U.S. Department of Justice is separately investigating Deutsche for trades that authorities said were used to launder $10 billion out of Russia, which has led to the bank being fined nearly $700 million.
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HSBC, which also had wealth management operations in Switzerland, agreed in 2012 to pay $1.92 billion in U.S. fines, mainly for allowing itself to be used to launder drug money flowing out of Mexico.
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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that include conspiracy against the United States and conspiracy to launder money.
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" As a result, the Justice Department is charging the seven Russian officers with "[conspiring] to launder money through a web of transactions structured to capitalize on the perceived anonymity of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.
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The FIAU has ten days to comply with the requirements, which include enhancing its monitoring of and sanction proceedings against banks, gaming companies and other sectors that could be used to launder dirty money.
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In addition to facilitating the sale of stolen information, the network also provided an escrow account people could use to launder their proceeds using digital currencies including bitcoin, Liberty Reserve, Perfect Money and WebMoney.
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The Department of Justice on Monday unveiled indictments of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his former longtime business partner Rick Gates, alleging the pair hid overseas payments and conspired to launder money.
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Manafort is accused of using bank accounts based in Cyprus to launder around $30 million he and a business associate made lobbying for pro-Russia political groups in Ukraine prior to the 2016 election.
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Manafort was hardly the only well-coiffed, silver-tongued devil taking his talents to the most brutal regimes across the world, promising to launder their images in return for some of their looted treasure.
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These accusations come immediately following Zarrab's explosive testimony in US federal court Thursday, when he claimed that Erdogan played a role in helping Iran launder funds from oil and gas sales through Turkish banks.
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Gezer also offered to sell the agents large amounts of U.S. currency at a fraction of its value in the belief that it could be used to launder money for the traffickers, prosecutors said.
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The two surrendered October 30 to Justice Department authorities following a 12-count indictment that includes charges of conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money and unregistered agent of a foreign principal.
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A federal judge in DC already told the prosecutors they could use this material for the Washington trial, in which Manafort faces charges of conspiracy to launder money, foreign lobbying violations and witness tampering.
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Edgar Valdez-Villareal, better known as "La Barbie," a leader in the Beltran-Leyva Cartel, pleaded guilty in January 210 to conspiracy to import cocaine, conspiracy to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to launder money.
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The warrants in the so-called "Operation Carwash" probe involve the suspected use of offshore companies and real estate transactions to launder money from bribery, graft and other offenses, police said in a statement.
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Tim Leissner, a former partner of Goldman Sachs in Asia, pleaded guilty last August to conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and agreed to forfeit $43.7 million.
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The move sought to deter huge numbers of people queuing to swap cash repeatedly, some of whom are suspected to be acting on behalf of racketeers trying to launder "black cash" before a Dec.
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Prosecutors said the conspiracy charge covered efforts to launder money, commit tax fraud, lie to federal officials and avoid the reporting of foreign bank accounts or registration as a lobbyist for a foreign country.
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The latest incident to rock Australia's highly profitable "Big Four" banks is potentially the worst, with CBA accused last month by the nation's financial intelligence agency of allowing criminals to launder millions of dollars.
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The latest scandal to rock Australia's highly profitable "Big Four" banks is potentially the worst, with Commonwealth Bank of Australia accused by the financial intelligence agency of allowing criminals to launder millions of dollars.
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They used their technical skills and a number of criminal services to recruit accomplices, perform phishing attacks, encrypt the malware to make it harder to detect by anti-virus tools and launder the money.
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Manafort faces charges in two federal courts that include conspiracy to launder money, failure to register as a foreign agent when he lobbied for the pro-Russia Ukraine government, bank fraud and tax fraud.
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"The purchase of prime property in London is a tactic used to launder money, and we will use all the powers available to us to target those who try to do this," he said.
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It is a federal crime to lie to federal authorities, obstruct justice, launder money, fail to register as a foreign agent and conspire with a foreign power to influence the outcome of an election.
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Yes, the arguments against it — namely, that it is a largely unregulated and unethical dumping ground through which the most corrupt among the very wealthy can launder their money and reputations — are perhaps valid.
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In the indictment released on Monday, prosecutors said the Cachiros had paid Mr. Hernández $50,000 to ensure that Honduran government agencies would make payments owed to front companies they operated to launder drug money.
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Manafort was arrested and indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington District Court in late 2017 on charges of making false statements, acting as an unregistered foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money.
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This month, the U.S. Justice Department filed civil lawsuits seeking to seize more than $1 billion of assets allegedly siphoned off from 1MDB, saying they were part of "an international conspiracy to launder money".
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For example, Mueller already has charged various conspiracies, including conspiracy to commit computer theft ("hacking"), conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to obstruct justice and conspiracy to obstruct the lawful function of the United States.
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Typically we think of such entities as those that supply funds, launder money or refine oil, but the law should also apply to entities that provide services, resources and platforms for communications, including Twitter.
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The U.S. Treasury Department blacklisted two of Rafael Ortega's companies that it said he used to launder money for and finance the Ortega government, as well as a third company controlled by the family.
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Charges against him include conspiring to launder money, failing to register as a foreign agent in connection with his lobbying for the previously pro-Russia Ukrainian government, bank fraud and filing false tax returns.
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The retrospective coincides with Colo's ongoing performance, "The Cleaner (or how to launder money and disappear)," which took place every Saturday, from May through July 228, in Chelsea at 23rd Street and 10th Avenue.
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As we reported ... a Federal Grand Jury indicted Lori and Mossimo with an additional crime of "conspiring to launder the bribes" on top of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.
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In January 2017, the bank was fined $630 million by regulators in New York and London for allowing clients of its Moscow office to launder $10 billion out of Russia through questionable stock trades.
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SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - The Dominican Republic's top prosecutor said on Tuesday that the Caribbean nation's largest drug trafficking gang has been dismantled, a group that allegedly used two former professional baseball players to launder assets.
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Mazur said as an undercover operative, he was working with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, a Luxembourg-based bank with branches in more than 70 countries, in order to launder the cartel's money.
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Their tactics included trafficking in stolen and counterfeit merchandise in order to raise and launder funds, and conspiring to export weapons for use by the group in places like Syria, according to the Justice Department.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Countries from Britain to Afghanistan pledged on Thursday to set up public registers of company ownership in a collective effort to make it harder to launder the proceeds of corruption around the globe.
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Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates are facing charges including conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent working on behalf of former pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's government.
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A shady developer could build a wallet that just cleans out a user's account or funnels their coins to the wrong recipient, mines their purchase history for marketing data or uses them to launder money.
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US authorities say Karner relies on a sophisticated international network of shell companies to launder his illicit steroid earnings, and he has reportedly made more than $50 million by trafficking illegal steroids throughout the world.
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Rosenthal also received money from a drug trafficker in the form of an investment in a soccer club he controlled, C.D. Marathón, and tried to launder drug proceeds through U.S. real estate transactions, prosecutors said.
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In December 2017, the Clinton Campaign's Hillary Victory Fund was alleged along with the DNC to use state chapters of the committee to circumvent contribution limits and launder the money back to her war chest.
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The warrants in the so-called "Operation Car Wash" probe involve the suspected use of offshore companies and real estate transactions to launder money from bribery, graft and other offenses, police said in a statement.
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Faced with the risk of legal and financial penalties from regulators, and the possibility of damage to their reputation, many banks are beefing up safeguards to prevent clients from using their services to launder money.
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In "Trump's Russian Laundromat," veteran journalist Craig Unger details how the Russian mafia has used the president's properties—including Trump Tower and the Trump Taj Majal—as a way to launder money and hide assets.
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Last month, Jack Dorsey appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience, a clearinghouse where fringe conspiracy theorists and far-right hate mongers can launder their views without the threat of critical thinking or a proper interrogator.
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That indictment charged him with offenses including conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent in connection with his lobbying for the Ukrainian government under pro-Russian former President Viktor Yanukovych.
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U.S. prosecutors earlier this year brought charges against two Brazilians for conspiring to launder money linked to the fraud, leading to the discovery of at least $17 million under a mattress in a Massachusetts apartment.
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His administration on Friday issued the Customer Due Diligence rule in the works since 2012 and proposed legislation meant to stop prevent criminals from using shell companies to evade taxes, launder money, and finance terror.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two men were sentenced to lengthy U.S. prison terms on Monday for conspiring to launder $250 million earned by manipulating shares of over 40 companies, including little-known Cynk Technology Corp (CYNK.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence) - The recent trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has reignited U.S. law enforcement officials' concerns about the use of prepaid cards to launder proceeds of crime.
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Ansari and his co-defendant, Mehrdad Foomanie, who remains a fugitive, were charged in June 28503 with conspiracy to violate the Iranian Transactions Regulations (ITR), conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
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The indictment includes accusations of conspiracy against the United States, failure to report foreign bank accounts to the U.S. government and conspiracy to launder money, a count that carries a 20-year maximum prison sentence.
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Police officers, prosecutors, tax authorities and other agents descended on Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt on Thursday, as part of an investigation into whether the bank helped clients launder money in an offshore tax haven.
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The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a coalition of countries from the United States to China, told countries to tighten oversight of cryptocurrency exchanges to stop digital coins being used to launder cash.
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In the past few years, United States and European authorities have punished Deutsche Bank for helping clients, including wealthy Russians, launder funds and for moving money into countries like Iran in violation of American sanctions.
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Manafort and Gates face charges including conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and failure to register as foreign agents in connection with their political work for a pro-Russia Ukrainian party.
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They bought 100 dresses at Bloomingdale's with their own savings, hoping to find out whether women would actually rent dresses, what brands they wanted and how their company could recollect, launder and redistribute the rentals.
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The US has become the world's greatest offshore haven, allowing the crooked and the criminal to launder and stash their ill-gotten gains across the country — money ransacked from national treasuries and prone populations abroad.
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The Democratic investigation did not reveal the kind of expansive scheme by Russia to launder millions into the U.S. election campaign through the gun lobby, as McClatchy had reported was being explored by federal investigators.
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" Ms. Wiener, 61, who has pleaded not guilty, is accused of using her business "to buy, smuggle, launder and sell millions of dollars worth of antiquities stolen from Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, India, Pakistan and Thailand.
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Scarano, who had close connections to the Vatican's scandal-plagued bank, is also still on trial in Salerno, his home town in southern Italy, on separate charges of using that bank to launder millions of euros.
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Last year, police authorities in several countries smashed 20 criminal groups that had created a "service-based economy" for the rest of the criminal market, such as providing ways to launder money or sell drugs online.
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The third strand of the argument covers those who want passports or residency rights for less pure motives: to dodge taxes or the police, to launder ill-gotten money or, at worst, to engage in terrorism.
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"They quietly dominated the cocaine trade in Europe and have pushed the profits into the rest of Europe to launder and gain influence while also expanding their operations all over Europe, Australia and Canada," he said.
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The bank paid $1.9 billion in fines to U.S. authorities in 2012 and agreed to install an independent monitor to improve its anti-money laundering controls, after it was used to launder Mexican cartel drug money.
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In 1983, after six armed men in balaclavas targeted a warehouse at Heathrow Airport and stole gold, cash and jewelry, prosecutors said Mr. Reader had helped a Kent crime boss launder around $40 million in gold.
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The three were indicted in March 2010 in the US District Court of Massachusetts on charges of conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, and conspiracy to import controlled substances into the United States.
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Browder, an investor who campaigns to expose corruption, has taken criminal complaints against Swedbank to Swedish, Estonian and Latvian authorities, alleging that accounts at the bank were used to launder $176 million between 2006 to 2012.
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According to the government, "several thousand drug dealers" used Silk Road to sell drugs and other illegal products to over 100,000 anonymous buyers and to launder hundreds of millions of dollars earned from those illegal sales.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former member of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez' cabinet pleaded guilty in a New York federal court on Tuesday to attempting to launder drug money from the Central American country, prosecutors said.
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It is believed to have controlled illegal activities at airports in Mexico, Monterrey, Cancun, and Acapulco, as well as hotels, restaurants, and resorts in places like Acapulco, Cancun, and Cozumel, which were used to launder money.
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While crooks may have an array of systems in place to launder the funds they steal, researchers have noticed that so-called business email compromise scammers are leaning more and more on the humble gift card.
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U.S. prosecutors also announced a guilty plea by Gabriel Jimenez, a Venezuelan citizen who admitted to conspiring with Gorrin and others to acquire Dominican Republic-based Banco Peravia and use it to help launder bribe money.
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Critics say he owes a more thorough explanation of this and his alleged connection with another offshore company, Kagemusha SA, registered in Panama, given that such firms are often used to launder money and evade taxes.
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Cudlip grew up listening to his dad's classic rock records and graduated to Harry Nilsson and The Zombies before settling into the more airy music that would inform Launder: John Phillips, Pavement, the Brian Jonestown Massacre.
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Shortly after McCarthy's interview, authorities unsealed the indictments and said Manafort and Gates had surrendered to face 12 conspiracy counts, including conspiracy to launder millions of dollars in payments from a pro-Russian party in Ukraine.
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The administration has used unilateral and secondary penalties on Chinese and Russian firms that help North Korean banks launder money, allow North Korean workers to go abroad, and enable North Koreans to access international financial markets.
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They launder perfectly too and are the right kind of warmth without feeling like your feet are stuck in a hot box, or on a slippery (no pun intended) surface like some of the satin ones.
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"This de-listing demonstrates that Treasury sanctions to combat drug cartels can effectively disrupt their ingrained financial investments and hinder their long-term plans to launder money through the sports industry," she said in a statement.
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The charges against Manafort in Washington include conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to defraud the United States and failing to register as a foreign agent for the pro-Russia Ukrainian government under former President Viktor Yanukovych.
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Last year, Brazilian officials said $16 million in undeclared cash and luxury watches that were seized from a delegation he led may have been part of an effort to launder money embezzled from the country's government.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian police launched an operation on Thursday to arrest 17 people suspected of involvement in a scheme to launder money and siphon off funds at state-controlled Banco do Brasil SA, authorities said.
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"They picked us to launder this money because our system is full of loopholes," Sergio R. Osmeña III, a Philippine senator who leads a committee on banks and financial institutions, said in an interview on Wednesday.
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But one of the suspected SEA members seemingly ditched that ideology, and started hacking and extorting several companies for tens of thousands of euros, and another hacker in Germany helped launder the proceeds back into Syria.
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The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a coalition of countries from the United States to China, will tell countries to tighten oversight of cryptocurrency exchanges to stop digital coins being used to launder cash.
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It said Mr. El Aissami oversaw or partly owned narcotics shipments weighing more than a ton, managed an international network of businesses to help launder profits and forged an alliance with Mr. Makled, the drug trafficker.
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The documents shed light on the often illicit methods used by the wealthy and powerful to launder money, hide income and evade taxes through the use of offshore bank accounts and shell companies in island havens.
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Manafort also pleaded not guilty last week in Washington to related charges, including conspiracy to launder money, and failing to register as a foreign agent for the pro-Russia Ukrainian government of former President Viktor Yanukovich.
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Mr. Manafort faces a second criminal trial next month in Washington on seven other charges brought by the special counsel, including obstruction of justice, failure to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money.
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Prosecutors have alleged that two of Manafort's New York companies were part of a scheme to take tens of millions of dollars earned overseas and launder it in the United States, including through real estate investments.
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Guy Philippe, 053, faces a three-count indictment including conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, conspiring to launder money, and engaging in monetary transactions stemming from unlawful activity, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a Russian national was indicted for allegedly using the digital currency exchange he ran to launder billions of dollars for others and facilitate drug trafficking, identity theft and hacking.
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"Treasury is targeting Rafael (Ortega) and the companies he owns and uses to launder money to prop up the Ortega regime at the expense of the Nicaraguan people," said U.S. Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a statement.
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We would have long talks about how I should launder my money, and he would take on that commanding tone when you're getting dad advice, making it clear he had forgotten the nature of the topic.
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Mr. Manafort also faces a second criminal trial next month in Washington on other charges brought by the special counsel, including obstruction of justice, failure to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money.
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Roger Ng is accused of helping his boss at Goldman launder money and bribe officials from two countries as part of the bank's work for a Malaysian state-owned development fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad, or 1MDB.
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They face charges including conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to defraud the United States and failure to file as foreign agents for lobbying work they did on behalf of the pro-Russian Ukrainian Party of Regions.
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While stealing bitcoins might seem like a good idea on paper given crypto's high value, getting away with it could be slightly difficult given recent crackdowns on sketchy exchanges that enable users to launder ill-earned coins.
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Manafort is facing separate indictments in Washington and Virginia, with charges ranging from conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent for the former pro-Russia Ukrainian government, to bank and tax fraud.
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Manafort is also facing charges in a separate federal court case in Washington, including conspiring against the United States, conspiring to launder money, failing to register as an agent of a foreign principal and providing false statements.
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He was helped by Gorrin, owner of television station Globovision, who has been charged with paying bribes to Andrade and others as well as helping to launder the payments, according to U.S. court documents unsealed in November.
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The cases are part of a broad effort by U.S. prosecutors to crack down on the use of the American financial system to launder proceeds from corruption in the crisis-stricken country that is suffering from hyperinflation.
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Singapore has banned Leissner, the bank's former Southeast Asia chairman, from its securities industry for life after he plead guilty in the United States for conspiring to launder 1MDB money and violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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No one knows how much dirty money is rinsed through London, but Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) reckons British banks and their subsidiaries (including those in overseas territories) launder "many hundreds of billions of pounds" each year.
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TORONTO, May 9 (Reuters) - British Columbia's housing market was the primary vehicle used to launder C$7.4 billion ($5.5 billion) through the Canadian province in 2018, according to report commissioned by the provincial government released on Thursday.
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Browder, once the biggest foreign money manager in Russia, had already taken the complaint against Swedbank to Swedish and Estonian authorities, alleging that the Swedish bank's accounts were used to launder $176 million from 2006 to 2012.
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In 2014, Mansur helped transfer hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dinars to Islamic State in Mosul, and then helped launder and transfer money for the group and sold oil it extracted from Iraq and Syria, Treasury said.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden has rejected an appeal from campaigning investor Bill Browder which had urged authorities to pursue a complaint alleging accounts at Swedbank were used to launder money, the Economic Crime Authority (EBM) said on Wednesday.
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Scourfield had pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy to corrupt, conspiracy to launder the proceeds of crime and four counts of fraudulent trading, while the others said they were not guilty of the charges brought against them.
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Scourfield had pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy to corrupt, conspiracy to launder the proceeds of crime and four counts of fraudulent trading, while the others said they were not guilty of the charges brought against them.
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He is also facing charges in a separate federal court case in Washington, including conspiring against the United States, conspiring to launder money, failing to register as an agent of a foreign principal and providing false statements.
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PIRRO: Well, not only volunteers but I mean, when you think about it, Ohr, Tammy was wanted to back channel or launder information from Christopher Steele after the FBI let him go, you know, to the DOJ.
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But they also underscore how tax havens are used by covert agencies and other shadowy players to launder dirty money, a practice that has a long history in which Panama, in particular, has played a notable part.
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After 6 days of deliberations, the jury returned guilty verdicts against Chapo for engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds, international distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs and use of firearms.
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But he is charged with bank fraud, filing false tax returns, conspiring against the United States by plotting to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent when he lobbied for the former Ukraine government.
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"A group of malicious actors with a complex automated system [are] utilizing free-to-play apps, third party game and resource resale websites, and Facebook to launder money from stolen credit cards," says a report by Kromtech.
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Not that they didn't try, as the indictment shows: The Defendants conspired to launder the equivalent of more than $95,000 through a web of transactions structured to capitalize on the perceived anonymity of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.
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But she could equally have been writing about the Americans taking obscene amounts of money in order to help tyrants abroad launder their image—and then turning around to help run major prongs of American political campaigns.
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"Our investigation points toward a suspected Russian organized crime group using London's futures market to launder millions of dollars worth of criminal revenue," said Detective Inspector Craig Mullish from the City of London Police's Money Laundering Unit.
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The wealthy media owner is often presented as either a philanthropist stepping in to save a legacy brand from oblivion, or as an opportunist trying to launder their reputation and influence the political conversation in their favor.
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NEW YORK, June 163 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Deutsche Bank AG of concealing major deficiencies in its anti-money laundering controls, including for "mirror trades" to launder money out of Russia.
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Mueller's office indicted Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates in October on charges including conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy against the United States and failing to register as foreign agents of Ukraine's former pro-Russian government.
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German law enforcement authorities targeted offices of the Deutsche Bank management board Friday as they spent a second day gathering evidence in an investigation into whether the bank helped clients launder money in an offshore tax haven.
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The firm, which ultimately settled the case for about $6 million without admitting fault, was accused of using real estate purchases to launder a portion of the profits from the tax fraud that Mr. Magnitsky had uncovered.
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At the same time, the inability or unwillingness of governments to effectively control the rapidly growing casino industry provides criminal groups with a convenient way to launder ever increasing volumes of illicit money into the formal economy.
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The official was not identified by name in court papers but was described as a Venezuelan who served as general manager at PDVSA's procurement unit, Bariven, and who had already pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder money.
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" The report notes, "While Epstein made charitable donations before his 2008 conviction, after that conviction he may have had a second motive for his donations: to launder his reputation by associating himself with reputable individuals and institutions.
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The German banking giant, which has suffered through a series of scandals over its role in helping launder vast amounts of Russian money and other embarrassments, cozied up to Trump and became his most important financial connection.
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Browder, once the biggest foreign money manager in Russia, had previously taken the complaint against Swedbank to Swedish and Estonian authorities, alleging that the Swedish bank's accounts were used to launder $176 million from 2006 to 2012.
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The thousands of pages of court papers, reviewed by Reuters, were filed in Andorra, the European principality where prosecutors allege Venezuelans involved in the project sought to launder kickbacks paid to them for helping secure the contract.
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It has been widely used to launder money, provide financial support for terrorist entities and countries such as Iran, help them evade sanctions and conduct state-level drug trafficking activities while guzzling the nation's precious natural resource.
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The blacklist lumped Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam and the United States Virgin Islands with the likes of North Korea, Libya and Yemen as havens where drug dealers, terrorists and corrupt dictators can launder ill-gotten gains.
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In January 2017, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay U.S. and UK regulators $630 million in fines over artificial trades between Moscow, London and New York that authorities said were used to launder $10 billion out of Russia.
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"Cambodia's banks have lax internal controls and policies around anti-money laundering and know-your-client compliance, making them wide open to serve as vehicles to launder cash from criminals and corrupt government officials," Mr. McLeod said.
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The indictment lays out 12 counts including conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, acting as an unregistered foreign agent, making false statements and several charges related to failing to report foreign bank and financial accounts.
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According to a source familiar with the indictments, Pinedo is the person cited in the document as helping the Russian conspirators launder money, as well as purchase Facebook ads and pay for rally supplies, through PayPal Holdings Inc.
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Sources close to the investigation allege the hit was ordered by broker Jonathan Chévez who they say helped launder the kickbacks received by the president and vice president through the purchase of land, houses, cars, boats, and planes.
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"I would like to say that Cohen will have no troubles in prison, but my gut feeling tells me that he will," Ronald Coleman, who's doing 262 months for conspiracy to traffic weed and launder money, told VICE.
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Perhaps he saw what happened when one of the world's largest banks, HSBC, helped launder billions of dollars in drug proceeds for the Sinaloa cartel, for a financier for Al Qaeda and for others over nearly a decade.
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First, the international community must move to strengthen the environmental rule of law -- improving legislation and effectively penalizing law-breakers -- if it is to succeed in disrupting overseas tax havens used by environmental criminals to launder illicit profits.
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In the latest twist, scammers coax victims into taking explicit photos and videos of themselves and then threaten to distribute them to their Facebook or Skype contacts if they don't pay them money or help them launder money.
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His cousin Yankel Rosenthal, a former minister of investment, pleaded guilty to attempting to launder drug money through a real estate purchase in Florida and was sentenced to two years and five months in prison on Jan. 19.
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On the same day, prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn said Leissner had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and had agreed to forfeit $43.7 million.
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SAO PAULO, May 9 (Reuters) - Brazilian police launched an operation on Thursday to arrest 17 people suspected of involvement in a scheme to launder money and siphon off funds at state-controlled Banco do Brasil SA, authorities said.
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No matter how scrupulously the AI designers launder the phony "human" touches out of their wares, we can expect a flourishing of shortcuts, workarounds and tolerated distortions of the actual "comprehension" of both the systems and their operators.
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Sinibaldi created a series of shell companies to launder money he collected in bribes to authorized state building companies, and some of that money also was intended to finance Perez Molina's right-wing Patriot Party, the CICIG said.
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Prosecutors said Asmar claimed to be an attorney who boasted that his connections at European and Middle Eastern banks enabled him to launder money, and that he could use his Hezbollah connections to provide security for drug shipments.
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"Qatar is confident that the review and analysis will confirm that Qatar has significant measures in place to prevent and detect efforts to launder funds and/or to use its financial systems to finance terrorist organizations," he said.
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Pinedo was not involved with the Trump campaign but in February he pleaded guilty to identity fraud in a case related to the Mueller investigation for helping Russian conspirators launder money, purchase Facebook ads and pay for supplies.
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Large global banks have been reluctant to do business with companies that handle bitcoin and other digital coins because of concerns they are used by criminals to launder money and that regulators will soon crack down on them.
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Gates was originally charged alongside Manafort but flipped on his longtime business partner and pleaded guilty earlier this year to participating in a wide-ranging conspiracy with Manafort to launder millions of dollars and deceive the US government.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A Brazilian whose arrest led U.S. authorities to discover $2.23 million hidden under a mattress pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges that he tried to launder funds tied to one of the largest pyramid schemes ever.
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A federal judge in DC already told the prosecutors they could use evidence from both searches for Manafort's Washington trial in September, in which he faces charges of conspiracy to launder money, foreign lobbying violations and witness tampering.
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One of them, according to court filings, involved a network of offshore companies that government investigators and independent journalists in Ukraine have said was used to launder public money and assets purportedly stolen by cronies of the government.
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"We see Hezbollah hijacking the Lebanese banking system to launder money, we see Hezbollah hijacking Lebanese ports in order to smuggle drugs, we see Hezbollah engaging in terrorist activities and interfering in Syria, Bahrain and Yemen," he said.
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The most prominent -- at least publicly -- is the case of the Zhao Wei, a gambling magnate accused by the US government of using his casino in Laos to help the UWSA launder proceeds from the sale of meth.
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"Mexican cartels are present in many countries, but being present is different from controlling," says Grillo, explaining that cartels dispatch operatives to countries like Peru and Honduras in order to buy raw ingredients, cook meth, or launder money.
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From there, the Byrdes are given just a few days to liquidate $8 million in assets, leave Chicago and set up shop in Missouri — where, under threat of execution, they have three months to launder all that cash.
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ING, the Netherlands' largest financial services provider, admitted in 2018 that criminals had been able to launder money through its accounts and agreed to pay 775 million euros ($865 million) to settle the case in its home country.
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A backdoor for organized crime The rapidly growing and unregulated casino industry in Southeast Asia has, in essence, emerged as a backdoor for organized crime to launder their growing supply of dirty money into the global financial system.
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The hockey Oles share a locker room on campus with the football team, launder their own uniforms, and drive three miles to practices and games at an aging municipal ice rink with one set of restrooms for everyone.
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In a civil forfeiture case in New York, the Justice Department alleged that Prevezon had helped launder money linked to the $230 million corruption scheme exposed by Mr. Magnitsky by putting it in real estate and bank accounts.
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In January, the unidentified man had written on his blog that Lee Hee-ho, widow of late former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, was to wed Dr. Dre in order to launder the late Kim's slush funds.
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Museum boards are crowded with the worst of the moneyed elite, permitting them to launder their reputations for plunder and pelf as they impress their rivals with lavish tax-deductible donations, reap prestige, and celebrate themselves with galas.
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In one particularly extreme example, federal prosecutors say the bank's anti-money laundering watchdogs looked the other way as a customer named Scott Tucker used several accounts to launder ill-gotten proceeds of a fraudulent payday lending scheme.
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Previous notable cases include the UK prisoners who had drugs snuck to them in homemade paintings, and the Connecticut art broker who attempted to launder drug money through the sale of paintings by Amedeo Modigliani and Edgar Degas.
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Pinedo was not involved with the Trump campaign but in February 2018 pleaded guilty to identity fraud in a case related to the Mueller investigation for helping Russian conspirators launder money, purchase Facebook ads and pay for supplies.
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Manafort and Gates face charges that include failing to register as foreign agents for political work they did for a pro-Russia Ukrainian political party, as well as conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy against the United States.
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Pinedo was not involved with the Trump campaign, but in February he pleaded guilty to identity fraud in a case related to the Mueller probe for helping Russian conspirators launder money, purchase Facebook ads and pay for supplies.
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Pinedo was not involved with the Trump campaign, but in February 2018 pleaded guilty to identity fraud in a case related to the Mueller investigation for helping Russian conspirators launder money, purchase Facebook ads and pay for supplies.
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Pinedo was not involved with the Trump campaign, but in February he pleaded guilty to identity fraud in a case related to the Mueller investigation for helping Russian conspirators launder money, purchase Facebook ads and pay for supplies.
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October 30, 2017 - In connection with Mueller's Russia probe, Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his associate, Rick Gates are indicted on 12 counts including conspiracy to launder money, making false statements and conspiracy against the United States.
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Guzmán' was found guilty in February on all 10 federal criminal counts against him, including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds, international distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs, and use of firearms.
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The move by FATF, which groups countries from the United States to China and bodies such as the European Commission, reflects growing concern among international law enforcement agencies that cryptocurrencies are being used to launder the proceeds of crime.
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U.S. prosecutors accused Philippe of conspiring from 1997 to March 2001 to import more than five kilograms (11 lbs) of cocaine into the United States, and from June 1999 to April 2003 to launder money to conceal illegal activity.
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A federal grand jury indicted President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his former business associate Rick Gates on 12 counts , including conspiracy against the United States and conspiracy to launder money, the special counsel's office announced Monday.
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U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrea Simonton deferred to a federal judge in Houston on whether Abraham Jose Shiera Bastidas, who has been charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and conspiring to launder money, should be released on bail.
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Magistrates in both the Vatican and Italy found that the bank, which is supposed to serve Vatican employees, Church officials and religious orders of priests and nuns, had been used by outsiders to either launder money or evade taxes.
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Along with the prison sentence, he was required to forfeit a Rolls Royce, a Ferrari and five other vehicles, one boat, four homes, multiple guns and an Italian ice stand allegedly used to launder cash, according to the newspaper.
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But Mark Micallef from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, a watchdog, says Italy may have fuelled instability in Sabratha and elsewhere by providing the militias with fresh ways to make money, and opportunities to launder their reputations.
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Mushrooming poorly regulated casinos in Southeast Asia offer criminals an easy way to launder illicit earnings, the agency said, and such funds can go through the formal banking system in wealthy Singapore and the financial hub of Hong Kong.
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The committee maintained in a complaint filed with the FEC that her presidential campaign, along with the Democratic National Committee (DNC), used state chapters as strawmen to circumvent campaign donation limits and launder the money back to her campaign.
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"We will not allow the U.S. financial system to be used to launder the proceeds of crimes committed anywhere -- here in the U.S., in Russia, or anywhere else," acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon H. Kim said in a statement.
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The cases are part of a broad effort by U.S. federal prosecutors to crack down on the use of the U.S. financial system to launder proceeds from rampant corruption in the crisis-stricken country that is suffering from hyperinflation.
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Whether Trump knew it or not, Russian mobsters and corrupt oligarchs used his properties not only to launder vast sums of money from extortion, drugs, gambling, and racketeering, but even as a base of operations for their criminal activities.
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LaVar said the league will be funded entirely by Big Baller Brand, a clothing line that few people outside the Ball family have ever been seen wearing, yet could theoretically function quite well as a means to launder crypto.
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He signed biennial statements as the authorized person for two of Manafort's New York companies, which prosecutors allege were part of a scheme to take tens of millions of dollars earned overseas and launder it in the United States.
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Earlier this month, the Justice Department announced that he had pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder money and conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act through the payment of bribes to government officials in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi.
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U.S. prosecutors accused Philippe of conspiring from 1997 to March 2001 to import more than 5 kg (11 pounds) of cocaine into the United States, and to launder money to conceal illegal activity from June 1999 to April 2003.
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Manafort and former Trump campaign official Rick Gates surrendered Monday to Justice Department authorities following a 12-count indictment that includes charges of conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money and unregistered agent of a foreign principal.
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The judge, Sergio Moro, in a 234-page decision, said Mr. Odebrecht had paid about $35 million in bribes to officials at Petrobras and had used overseas accounts to launder the money and make many of the illicit payments.
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Drug cartels looking to launder money and diversify their operations control or extort some of the production and packing of certain export crops from Mexico (the largest exporter of produce to the United States), including avocados, mangoes and limes.
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WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors cited the involvement of a onetime top fund-raiser to President Trump on Friday in a scheme to launder millions of dollars into the country to help a flamboyant Malaysian financier end a Justice Department investigation.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Ten men suspected of using the digital currency Bitcoin to launder up to 20 million euros ($22 million) of criminal money made from online drug deals have been arrested in the Netherlands, Dutch prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Mexico-based businessman has been arrested in the United States on charges that he and five others engaged in a scheme to fraudulently obtain tax refunds from the Mexican government and launder over $100 million.
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Prosecutors said from 2011 to 2016, the defendants engaged in a scheme to defraud the Mexican government of tax revenue relating to its value-added tax (VAT) and then launder the scheme's proceeds throughout the United States and Mexico.
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Beijing not only extends an economic lifeline — to this day, China has been violating U.N. sanctions by smuggling commodities in and out of the North — but also allows its financial institutions to launder money for the North Korean regime.
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Gates, who had been working as a consultant for Colony for six months, according to the spokesman, was indicted on Monday on charges of conspiracy to launder money and failing to report foreign bank accounts to the U.S. government.
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HSBC Sued Over Drug Cartel Murders | Families of United States citizens murdered by drug gangs in Mexico sued HSBC, claiming the bank can be held responsible for the deaths because it let cartels launder billions of dollars to operate their businesses.
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I never washed them, wore them until they were embarrassingly over-due for a launder, all in the quest to keep them looking so black that they made my legs look almost 2-D — like they were stamped into space.
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Researchers at Qatar University and the country's Hamad Bin Khalifa University earlier this week published findings that show just how easy it may be to dredge up evidence of years-old bitcoin transactions when spenders didn't carefully launder their payments.
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Manafort faces two indictments accusing him of conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, failing to register as a foreign agent for lobbying work he did for the pro-Russia government of Ukraine, bank fraud and other offenses.
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Paul Manafort, who ran Trump's presidential campaign for several months last year, was charged in October with conspiring to launder money, conspiracy against the United States and failing to register as a foreign agent of Ukraine's former pro-Russian government.
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The 22014-count indictment included conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, being an unregistered agent of a foreign principal, making false and misleading statements and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign banks and financial accounts.
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Some may argue that this will not solve anything regarding criminal activities, but even with bitcoin, the possibilities to launder money using virtual currencies are limited and require cashing in and out in cash in order to entirely break the trail.
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Likewise, he seems fully aware of the process whereby a corporation incites an opioid epidemic with one hand, and then uses the other to launder its image through the associative benefits of charitable donations to a bevy of cultural institutions.
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"This is inherently challenging because those who seek to launder money are often extremely sophisticated, hiding behind legitimate companies, layers of front companies, connected parties and individuals that have controlling interests in the subject companies," a spokeswoman for HSBC said.
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C.: I&aposm not an election law expert, Chris, but the good news is, you don&apost have to be to understand the absurdity of believing that can you launder all of your campaign money by just hiring a law firm.
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C.: I&aposm not an election law expert, Chris, but the good news is you don&apost have to be to understand the absurdity of believing that you can launder all of your campaign money by just hiring a law firm.
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In July, U.S. prosecutors said they were seeking to seize more than $1 billion of assets tied to an international conspiracy to launder funds funneled away from 1MDB, marking the biggest action ever taken under the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.
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The fund's announcement came in the wake of last week's move by the U.S. Department of Justice to seize more than $1 billion worth of assets it alleged were tied to an international conspiracy to launder money funneled away from 1MDB.
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Browder alleged that Swedbank accounts were used to launder $176 million between 2006 and 2012 and this was linked to money laundering and tax fraud exposed by his former lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian jail in 2009.
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The complaint filed Friday alleges that the defendants created multiple corporate entities to launder money and circumvent the refusal of financial institutions to process Backpage transactions because of overtly sexual material, the Attorney General's office said in a press release.
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In the Washington, D.C. case, which has a September trial date, he is accused of conspiring against the United States, conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent when he lobbied for the pro-Russia Ukrainian government.
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The court papers said that in July 2012, Low went gambling in Las Vegas with several others, including DiCaprio and a former 1MDB executive after Low's account had been infused with $11 million from accounts used to launder 1MDB funds.
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Trump's former campaign chair, Paul Manafort, was allegedly the recipient of millions of dollars in dirty money payments from a Russian proxy party in Ukraine, money that Manafort would have had to try to launder to actually make use of.
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Since the weekend, media have said Crown hired travel agents with ties to drug traffickers to bring in the gamblers, knowingly allowed the gamblers to launder money at its casinos and pressured immigration officials to fast-track visas for high rollers.
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The state-run Anti-Corruption Commission in 2016 found that SOF, a company launched by former tourism minister Ahmed Adeeb, was used to launder more than $92 million from the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation, the country's tourism board.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is hunting down international criminals who launder money through real estate deals, with the Treasury Department ordering title insurance companies to report the identities of people paying cash for high-end properties in Miami and Manhattan.
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Quick take: The notorious cartel leader was found guilty on all 10 counts he faced, including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds, international distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs, and the use of firearms.
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We're unfortunately complicit in 20 years' worth of right-wing efforts to paint Clinton as a scheming crook, so we must now either confess that we painted a caricature, or figure out a way to launder our role in her victory.
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One scheme allegedly occurred from October 2017 to February 2018, when according to prosecutors Kyriacou and London art gallery owner Matthew Green tried to launder 6.7 million British pounds ($9.2 million) that an undercover law enforcement agent claimed were fraud proceeds.
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APRA commissioned the independent report into Commonwealth Bank last year, after the bank was sued by Australia's financial intelligence agency for alleged breaches of money laundering laws that allowed criminals and terror financiers to launder millions of dollars through its accounts.
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Many other firms provide similar services, and the Treasury Department estimated last year that more than $300 billion dollars of illicit proceeds are generated in the United States annually, with criminals using such companies here and abroad to launder funds.
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Last year, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay more than $600 million to authorities in New York and Britain to settle charges that it had helped Russian investors launder as much as $203 billion through branches in Moscow, London and New York.
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His odiousness is now one of the central flashpoints of the Trump transition, though many outlets still choose to launder the appropriate adjectives through "critics," as if Bannon's views aren't evident from text and praised by his white supremacist fans.
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Representatives from Public Health England have issued a warning to patrons of both Zizzi Italian restaurant and The Mill pub, recommending that they launder their clothes and thoroughly clean their electronic devices, after potentially being exposed to an extremely dangerous substance.
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Matthias Krull, a former Julius Baer Panama vice-chairman, was sentenced to 10 years in U.S. prison in October after pleading guilty for his role in a billion-dollar scheme to launder money embezzled from Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA [PDVSA.UL].
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"This is an important issue for us ... we know that those who are forcing people into modern slavery use bank accounts to launder the proceeds of crime or facilitate it," said Paul Horlick, the director of Barclays' financial intelligence unit.
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The Customer Due Diligence (CDD) rule, in the works since 2012, and the proposed legislation are meant to hinder criminals from using shell companies to hide ownership and launder money, finance terror, and commit other threats to the global financial system.
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