In 2009 the national police force estimated that up to C$15bn ($12bn) was being laundered in the country each year (an estimated annual $2trn is laundered globally).
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Something tells me he would complain about freshly laundered pajamas.
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Following laundered cryptocurrency, after all, is a notoriously difficult task.
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The bitcoin were laundered through wallets controlled by Alexander Vinnik.
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Most of the money was laundered through casinos in Manila.
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Their profits were laundered in the Netherlands, Dutch prosecutors alleged.
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Manafort laundered more than $18 million, according to the indictment.
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What to do with a shitload of allegedly laundered cash?
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Go deeper: How North Korea has "laundered" coal to undercut sanctions
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Even though he's backpacking in the woods, he's so freshly laundered.
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Even though he's backpacking in the woods, he's so freshly laundered.
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WHO SUPERVISES THIS AND WHY DID SO MUCH MONEY GET LAUNDERED?
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Sometimes, they get "laundered" back into respectable, high-level government positions.
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The Russians laundered money through the NRA for the Trump campaign.
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In Germany, his team's uniforms were laundered by Dirk Nowitzki's mother.
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Because cash is laundered all the time and used for nefarious activities.
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Most of the cash was quickly withdrawn and laundered through multiple channels.
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In Chicago, his taxi fleet included wrecked vehicles with illegally laundered titles.
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Koolman laundered the money through wire transfers at American banks, authorities said.
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Officials say much of it was laundered through United States financial institutions.
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The indictment alleges that Manafort laundered more than $18 million since 2006.
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Mueller alleges that Manafort laundered more than $30 million with Gates's help.
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The money he received was later laundered, prosecutors said in a statement.
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Supposedly some of that money might have been laundered into Clinton interests.
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All our towels are laundered in special washing machines that use ozone purification.
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The indictment alleged that Manafort had laundered more than $18 million since 2006.
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Prosecutors said he evaded taxes on $16 million laundered through shell companies overseas.
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Most of the money was laundered through casinos in Manila and remains missing.
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The difference is the magnitude of money being laundered through the OCO loophole.
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Manafort allegedly received $30 million in laundered funds, while Gates took $3 million.
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In effect, Republicans had laundered a racially gerrymandered map through the judicial system.
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He then laundered the money through his law firm, The Boston Globe reported.
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However, he may not have been aware that the money had been laundered.
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There is no suggestion that it was aware it was accepting laundered money.
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All those yachts keep getting bigger, just so the money can be laundered.
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In collaboration with the F.B.I., he laundered some of their counterintelligence for them.
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Prosecutors say he laundered more than $18 million, and spent the money extravagantly.
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The dot is where ill-gotten attention is laundered into legitimate-seeming engagement.
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Just blot dry with a face cloth, which can be laundered for reuse.
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The money Saimaiti laundered seems to have been made by dodging import tariffs.
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The United Nations estimates that $800 billion to $2 trillion is laundered each year.
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That foreign involvement could very easily be laundered through an American starting an LLC.
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U.S. investigators say Najib&aposs associates stole and laundered $4.5 billion from the fund.
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Most of the money that ended up in the Philippines was laundered through casinos.
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Bangladesh has reportedly already retrieved around $20 million that was laundered in Sri Lanka.
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Another exchange through which Vinnik allegedly laundered money, Tradehill, was shut down in 2013.
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The United Nations estimates only 1 percent of global laundered money flows are detected.
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The gang allegedly trafficked drugs and untaxed hooch and smokes, plotted murders, laundered money.
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U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded, however, that Russian operatives laundered stolen emails through WikiLeaks.
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Glumac also allegedly laundered the profits from these sales before paying the Finans their share.
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He laundered it through Panamanian and French banks; the French too brought charges against him.
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IS has also laundered its cash reserves by investing in legitimate businesses around the region.
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In 2014 it had been revealed that Moldovan banks had laundered $20bn of Russian cash.
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There's nothing glamorous about a part-time job or fighting evil in freshly laundered clothes.
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Football players may get their uniforms laundered on-site, but not so for the cheerleaders!
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If your property doesn't have duvets, request upon check-in that your bedspread be laundered.
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Vasquéz had claimed that Ramírez told him he had once laundered $15 million for Keiko.
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The Estonian police's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) said that besides more than $6 billion laundered via Estonian banks in schemes discovered by national financial inspection agencies, a further unreported 7.3 billion euros was laundered via Estonian banks through the sale of Russian stocks and bonds.
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"In short: Money from bribes circulate through various places to return laundered to Panama," she said.
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In June, another recording emerged of two businessmen discussing how the candidate allegedly laundered campaign money.
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The money made is probably laundered through casinos and suspiciously empty restaurants owned by militia groups.
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Well, now we know that that actually was basically just money laundered through the law firm.
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STEVEN MNUCHIN: I don't think that's accurate at all, that cash is laundered all the time.
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"I don't think that's accurate at all, that cash is laundered all the time," Mnuchin replied.
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In 1974 British women cleaned, cooked and laundered for 172 hours a year more than men.
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The money was allegedly laundered through a shell company in Panama, according to Venezuelan state media.
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Even cum rags need to be laundered—especially those of the high-end, dual purpose variety.
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Mr. Marks and his accomplices then laundered the proceeds through a staggering array of front companies.
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One source tells CNN some of its cash pile has been laundered through businesses in Turkey.
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During chilly coastal evenings, the deli's tented seating area provides heat lamps and freshly laundered blankets.
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See our graphic on how a federal inquiry says Mr. Manafort laundered, and spent, $18 million.
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"We know corrupt Ukrainian oligarch laundered $3 million to the Biden Family," Giuliani tweeted last month.
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If you're unfamiliar, picture this: You're running through a field of white flowers wearing freshly-laundered cotton.
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Prosecutors said in court that he laundered $21 million in bribe payments as part of the scheme.
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SimilarWeb data shows that top CMC properties like the Christian Post received traffic laundered through c2.cmcigroup.
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For money laundering, French criminal law lets judges enforce fines as high as half the amount laundered.
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She also instructed the chief prosecutor to investigate whether Ramaphosa's campaign had laundered money in handling donations.
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If your data was taken, it has very likely been sold, laundered, and put back into Facebook.
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He'd "laundered" the documents by picking them up there one day and rushing back there the next.
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Paul Manafort -- Trump's former campaign manager allegedly laundered millions in foreign funds and his trial is ongoing.
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Some of the laundered funds were then allegedly used to pay bribes to obtain business for Goldman.
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A lot of that money has been gained through corruption and is laundered through real estate investments.
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He's now earning at least some of that laundered money he's being mailed, which is the point.
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When laundered, a standard, six-kilogram load of synthetic fiber clothing releases "about 700,000 microfibers," she says.
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It was then laundered into mainstream Republican discourse by figures like Roger Stone, Trump's former campaign adviser.
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U.S. authorities claim $4.5 billion was laundered from 1MDB over six years by Malaysian government officials and others.
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Just as foreign influence operations can be "laundered" through private companies and nonprofits, so can direct political donations.
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A former campaign manager allegedly laundered money for a Ukrainian political party with ties to the Russian government.
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Prosecutors allege that Manafort, with Gates' assistance, laundered more than $30 million and duped banks into lending money.
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Of the $75 million that prosecutors say flowed through offshore accounts, Manafort allegedly laundered more than $18 million.
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The indictment alleges that Manafort laundered more than $30 million in income that he hid from US authorities.
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For money laundering, French criminal law lets judges enforce fines as high as half of the amount laundered.
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Convicted con man Gilbert Chikli said he laundered 2800 percent of his money through China and Hong Kong.
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Overhead shelves packed with laundered shirts wrapped in brown paper make the place look busy, Ms. Huang said.
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It alleges that Manafort, with Gates' assistance, laundered more than $30 million and duped banks into lending money.
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The proceeds were allegedly laundered through investments in banking products, luxury cars, property as well as Bitcoin centers.
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The former Trump associate allegedly laundered money through foreign banks to hide the consulting work from U.S. authorities.
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Manafort also allegedly laundered millions more by purchasing real estate and luxury goods, like $1 million in rugs.
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Three times a day, she emptied his urine bottle, and, periodically, she laundered his clothes and his sheets.
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The US Treasury estimates that something like 300 billion dollars a year is laundered through the United States.
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But an enormous amount is laundered via US banks, particularly in Texas, and through tax havens like Panama.
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American intelligence agents later concluded that the documents had been hacked by Russian operatives and laundered through WikiLeaks.
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Prosecutors in Washington have alleged that Manafort laundered more than $30 million and duped banks into lending money.
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"The way this clip was laundered through the press is almost a perfect master class," Mr. Law said.
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But an enormous amount is laundered via U.S. banks, particularly in Texas, and through tax havens like Panama.
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More than $10 billion in laundered money was directed toward London and New York from Moscow, investigators found.
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Uniforms — or "costumes" as they were called at the Taj — were well-made, unique, and laundered by the company.
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Imagine lounging in freshly laundered, 800-thread-count sheets, as the sun glints through your floor-length linen curtains.
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A 1MDB panel has been set up to liaise with foreign countries on how to retrieve the laundered billions.
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According to OCCRP, the documents reveal that the proceeds of these crimes were laundered through shell corporations across Europe.
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Amid accusations that they had laundered money through these projects, the party was voted out of office in 2016.
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She also instructed the chief prosecutor to investigate whether Ramaphosa's campaign had laundered money in its handling of donations.
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Dairy should be flushed with cold water then treated with an enzyme-based stain remover (like Zout) and laundered.
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"It was some rapping in a bikini across a car shit," she says, insisting it was laundered drug money.
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Lawyer David McGee said then that Levinson was trying to trace money laundered through Iranian exiles living in Toronto.
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Under French law, those convicted of money laundering can be ordered to pay a fine totaling half the amount laundered.
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As the investigators did not sift the 9.5m transactions on the 15,000 accounts, they cannot say how much was laundered.
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He also laundered tens of millions of dollars from Ukrainian interests into the US, and didn't pay taxes on it.
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Under French law, those convicted of money laundering can be ordered to pay a fine totalling half the amount laundered.
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Under French law, those convicted of money laundering can be ordered to pay a fine worth half the amount laundered.
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Much of the $173 billion of investor money located so far was laundered through at least 21 countries, prosecutors said.
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Worldwide, governments detect just 20 cents of every $100 of laundered money, estimates the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
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These money-laundered funds represent transactions that CipherTrace was able to directly monitor and designate as criminal or highly suspect.
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It got its name, per Bloomberg, because a lot of the money was apparently laundered through an actual car wash.
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In the 1980s, a Russian criminal named David Bogatin bought five Trump Tower apartments with $6 million in laundered funds.
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His clothes are laundered, stored and sent ahead to him to his travel destinations by DUFL, a travel valet service.
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Outlandish theories burble up from the depths and are laundered up through increasingly mainstream channels until they reach the president.
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Britain's International Corruption Unit says its investigations have led to the confiscation of £76m ($117m) in laundered loot since 2006.
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The bank eventually acknowledged having laundered more than eight hundred million dollars in drug proceeds for Mexican and Colombian cartels.
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On Sunday, President Muhammadu Buhari alleged that corrupt politicians planned to use laundered funds to buy voters during the elections.
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But Jackson appeared to take a more lax stance on dredging up the ways Manafort spent his allegedly laundered money.
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Police say the pair laundered the money by setting up shell companies to buy Australian real estate, jewelry and vehicles.
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My mom did everything else: She grocery shopped and cooked and cleaned and laundered the five shirts I sweated through nightly.
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Critics have argued such a measure is essentially racial discrimination laundered through the state, as it disproportionately targets non-white offenders.
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The National Crime Agency reckons that up to £90bn ($120bn) is laundered through Britain each year, which is probably an underestimate.
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"Instead, they were stolen, laundered through American financial institutions and used to enrich a few officials and their associates," she said.
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Estonia has been rocked by revelations that banks there laundered money from Russia, Moldova and Azerbaijan via non-resident bank accounts.
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Jevans noted that in all likelihood the bulk of the $1.7 billion in stolen and scammed cryptocurrencies has already been laundered.
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And while the "Laundry Supervisor" wouldn't have to do everyone's laundry, theywouldhave to make sure everyone else laundered their own clothes.
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The three were also ordered to pay a fine equivalent to a quarter of the sums they had laundered, he said.
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Spanish investigators claim Mr. Torshin laundered money for the Russian mob through Spanish banks and properties while he was in Parliament.
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Prosecutors say Mr. Manafort laundered more than $18 million, and spent the money on fine suits, real estate and expensive rugs.
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And laundered money represents 2 percent to 5 percent of global G.D.P., according to a recent report by the European Parliament.
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More effort needs to be made to stop American-sold guns flowing south and drug dollars being laundered in big banks.
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In the process, they say, he laundered millions of dollars in proceeds and misled investigators about how he received those funds.
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Guests who are also Equinox members receive the extra perk of having their workout wear laundered for free during their visit.
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The filling itself is encased within a second zippered cover, which can also be laundered in a washing machine if necessary.
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After Privat Bank, Ukraine's largest, was nationalized in 85033, it was found to have laundered $5.5 billion over the previous decade.
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The three were also ordered to pay a fine equivalent to one fourth of the sums they had laundered, he said.
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"Novitiate" avoids both the laundered piety of that movie and the sensationalism that hovers around the subject of women and religion.
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The two men "laundered the money through scores of United States and foreign corporations, partnerships and bank accounts," the indictment read.
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Of course, it was no surprise, because London has become a personal valet to men like him: It's a dictators' safe space, where billions of dollars are laundered through the London real estate market every year, contributing to what the National Crime Agency estimates to be an annual total of more $125 billion laundered in Britain.
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The revenues of the Caliphate have been invested in legitimate businesses, laundered through banks and money-lenders and literally hidden under floorboards.
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The money would then be turned into cash by accomplices in the U.S., laundered into cryptocurrency, and eventually sent back to Qaiser.
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Authorities say they laundered the money through shell companies, and used it to buy luxury homes, cars and other high-end items.
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Each hue looks sand-papered, as if laundered too many times — an effect Levinthal achieves by scraping her panels with a razor.
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In the process they laundered $56.6 million for drug cartels and gangs, pulled in at least $1.7 million, and made zero arrests.
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He then laundered the profits through an internet domain business, the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York claims.
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And if expanding that audience meant involving white nationalists and neo-Nazis, their participation could always be laundered to hide their contributions.
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The $1.5 billion was laundered through foreign accounts, prosecutors said, then returned to state-run banks controlled by The Family as securities.
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The stolen funds were deposited in four or five accounts, and later laundered into untraceable gambling chips in two casinos in Manila.
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Last year, ING admitted criminals had laundered money through its accounts and the bank agreed to pay a 775 million euro penalty.
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Prosecutors allege that Humala, who is now in pre-trial detention, laundered money for Odebrecht by taking campaign contributions earned through graft.
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In his GOP, policies that were extraordinarily damaging to the poor and to minorities were laundered by grandiose rhetoric about improving opportunity.
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In your operation, one point of integration is when your laundered money travels back to Mexico for the purchase of more drugs.
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U.S. authorities allege that $4.5 billion was laundered from 1MDB, and that around $700 million was siphoned into Najib's personal bank accounts.
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" He added: "Sometimes Chinese aggression is explicitly state-sponsored and sometimes it's laundered through many of Beijing's so-called 'private' sector entities.
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U.S. officials this month arrested several members of Hezbollah who purchased weapons in Syria with drug revenue laundered through a Lebanese business.
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More than $22019 million flowed through various offshore accounts set up by Manafort — and he laundered more than $18 million, prosecutors allege.
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Subway riders board trains freshly showered then exit feeling defeated, with swampy pants, matted hair and sweat marks on newly laundered shirts.
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At least $4.5 billion in 1MDB money was stolen then laundered through American financial institutions, the United States Department of Justice says.
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"They're produced with chemicals that are not environmentally friendly, and they're produced with laundered money and from illegal gold sources," Travers said.
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In July 2017, American prosecutors indicted Alexander Vinnik, a Russian national who they say received and laundered hacked funds from the company.
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Prosecutors are investigating accusations that Ms. Fujimori laundered money from Odebrecht to finance her 2011 and 2016 campaigns, allegations that she denies.
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The firm colluded with Bulgarian companies, inflated invoices and laundered money through shell companies, according to documents and current and former officials.
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Lobbyist Jack Abramoff laundered money defrauded from clients through a Delaware shell company run by a lifeguard out of a beach house.
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And, once the Wall Street Journal laundered it, it was repeated by Newsweek (as a headline claim) and the Times of London.
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Spanish investigators say that while he was in Parliament, Mr. Torshin laundered money for the Russian mafia through Spanish banks and properties.
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He was subsequently convicted of multiple financial crimes related to payments he received from Ukraine, which he laundered to avoid paying taxes.
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The remaining $25 million was laundered through other accounts in locations including Cyprus, Latvia, Hungary, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Hong Kong, authorities said.
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In the middle of the room, an electric fan dried some of the previous night's "Butterfly" undergarments, which had been laundered that morning.
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In Brazil, wood is frequently laundered the way dirty money in other countries is cleaned - by running it through legitimate businesses, Brindis said.
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In theory, whatever black money cannot be laundered will be worthless, yielding a gain for government's finances and perhaps ultimately for poorer Indians.
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There is more to come: Scandinavian banks embroiled in scandals involving laundered Russian money, including Danske Bank and Swedbank, are bracing for penalties.
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" The sums laundered were so large, the prosecutors said, that "the damage to the socio-economic order and the national economy is clear.
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The head of Europol, Europe's policing agency, has estimated that 3-4% of the region's criminal proceeds are now laundered through crypto-assets.
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Police say Handschumacher told them he had laundered more than $100,000 through cryptocurrency exchanges, although he has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
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Prosecutors will drop charges that were deferred in a case relating to Mexican drug money laundered through the bank, which was fined $1.9bn.
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Authorities in the Philippines are still working on the case, though most of the money that was laundered through Manila casinos remains missing.
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The Podesta emails were dribbled out in the campaign's final weeks and were laundered through WikiLeaks, which made them irresistible to the media.
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The indictment says Manafort and Gates laundered millions to fund their lifestyles in the U.S. — $18million for Manafort and $3 million for Gates.
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Much of the money laundered from Russia passes through Cyprus, the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands, but it does not stay there.
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The United States attorney general, Loretta Lynch, said Malaysian officials had laundered more than $3 billion from the fund through American financial institutions.
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For older, more set-in grease stains or spots on items that can't be laundered, cornstarch or talcum will pull up the oil.
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The statements provided to VICE were markedly less verbose than the ones released directly on social media or laundered through sympathetic local sources.
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Earlier this year, Europol broke up a Spanish drugs cartel that laundered cash using two crypto ATMs, machines that issue cryptocurrencies for cash.
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The bills ended up all over the world, allegedly distributed by an aging Irish man and laundered through a small bank in Macau.
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In play is $630 million from his estate that the United States says he and his cronies laundered through the American financial system.
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The eels are sometimes "laundered" with a stopover in Northern Africa, which doesn't have a ban on exports like the European Union, he added.
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Brazilian prosecutors allege corruption took place on U.S. soil and money was laundered through American and European banks, which could greatly widen the probe.
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The judicial decision, unveiled by the independent news organization Ukrayinska Pravda, said the group laundered state assets through 400 companies, including Kurchenko's Prosperity Developments.
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In 2015, Singapore discovered that funds linked to a scandal-ridden Malaysian state fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad, had been laundered through its banking system.
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The proceeds from the forgiven loan were laundered through various businessmen tied to the Workers' Party and ultimately used to pay bribes, prosecutors said.
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Globally, the International Monetary Fund estimates that between 2 and 5 percent of the world's gross domestic product is laundered money from illicit activity.
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In other words, the NCAA is fine with amateur athletes being paid, so long as that cash is first laundered alongside the American flag.
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They allegedly laundered money for Piedrahita, who was arrested in Colombia in September, through real estate and a café known for its tango performances.
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On an average day, I walked about eight hours, produced my two output streams, ate, bathed, laundered my sweaty gear, packed, unpacked, and repacked.
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Soaring property prices have become a hot issue among the New Zealand public and there are concerns that laundered money has fuelled the boom.
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"The rule of law remains weak, and Burma continues to face a significant risk of narcotics proceeds being laundered through commercial ventures," it added.
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The laundered cash allegedly was used on big-ticket items such as a $30,000 pickup truck, a $14,153 tractor and $17,000 in paper products.
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In 2015, Singapore discovered that funds linked to a scandal-ridden Malaysian state fund, 1Malaysia Development Bhd, had been laundered through its banking system.
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It was able to then manipulate account balances on logs to prevent the heist from being discovered until after the funds had been laundered.
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In a sweeping 2000-count indictment in 212, the government identified $20093 million that Mr. Lazarenko laundered through financial institutions in the United States.
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First, they laundered tens of millions of dollars while working for Viktor Yanukovych, then the Kremlin-aligned president of Ukraine, and his political allies.
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It's your 210,123 hours of preparation meeting 212 other people's 210,2000 hours of preparation meeting $3 million laundered through the Cayman Islands … meeting luck.
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The companies she deals with are shells within shells, paper entities confected in the Mossack Fonseca offices, where accountability is laundered along with money.
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The prosecutor's office said it had discovered more than 10 million euros ($11 million) of laundered money which had been invested in Spanish property.
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The pair flowed $75 million through offshore accounts, and Manafort laundered $18 million to buy property and luxury goods in the US, prosecutors said.
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Social media aids recruitment, stolen credit cards finance travel, victims can be monitored virtually and sold online before proceeds are laundered - electronically, of course.
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Russia's Investigative Committee alleges Navalny's anti-corruption organization laundered 1 billion roubles, about $85033 million dollars, from 2016 to 2018, according to The Guardian.
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"The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has raised concerns over laundered money being funneled into vote buying," Buhari said in a post on Facebook.
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The figures back him up: According to the U.N., between 2 percent and 5 percent of global gross domestic product is laundered each year.
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Manafort and Gates received a stunning $75 million between 2006 and 2016, much of it allegedly laundered through offshore bank accounts and shell companies.
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The prosecution alleged that Manafort laundered $20163 million he made working for Ukrainian politicians into the US from undeclared offshore accounts without paying taxes.
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The Intelligence Committee's incoming chairman, Adam Schiff, has pointed to the need to look into accusations Russians may have laundered funds through the Trump Organization.
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"The Sinaloa cartel's drug sales in the United States generated billions of dollars in profit," which were then laundered back to Mexico, the indictment said.
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A recent BuzzFeed News story detailed how this form of low-quality traffic is often "laundered" through other domains before ending up on mainstream sites.
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In 1999, with the authorities closing in, Frankel fled to Rome, laundered millions of dollars by purchasing diamonds, and eventually wound up in Hamburg, Germany.
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Undercover agents provided $400,000 in alleged drug proceeds to Asmar and his co-conspirators, who laundered the money in exchange for a commission, prosecutors said.
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Flynn has retweeted theories that Clinton "waged war" on the Roman Catholic Church and that President Obama "laundered" billions of dollars in cash to terrorists.
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The fraud was highly involved, and the tech giants' money took a round-the-world trip to be laundered before ending up in Rimasauskas's hands.
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"The money laundered through the CBA accounts included the proceeds of drug and firearms importation and distribution syndicates – predominantly involving methamphetamine," the court document said.
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Still, Gates and others produced potentially damning testimony about how Manafort laundered millions of dollars through foreign bank accounts and falsified tax and loan documents.
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Most of the money was laundered through Philippine casinos and only about $15 million was recovered from a gaming junket operator and returned to Bangladesh.
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The Brazilian investigation into Petrobras, called "Operation Carwash," a reference to a service station that laundered money, has shaken the political establishment to the core.
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And he still faces a United States Justice Department investigation and efforts to recover $1.7 billion in assets said to be acquired with laundered money.
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The 2008 financial crisis exposed a series of wrongdoings, including rigged interest rates, laundered money and violations of United States sanctions against countries like Iran.
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Even more worrying, however, are the large sums of money thought to be laundered through heavily marked-up deals with providers of equipment and supplies.
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An ongoing Senate hearing in the Philippines is still struggling to determine how the stolen money was laundered, with another hearing scheduled for next week.
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The two Singapore businesses, in addition to Dandong Zhicheng, were all accused of allegedly laundered money for North Korean banks that were subject to sanctions.
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The criminal network laundered the proceeds through properties in France, according to Europol, which connects at least 1,000 law enforcement agencies from about 40 countries.
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Among the photos released of Manafort's many lavish items of clothing (possibly paid for with laundered money) was a $123,000 jacket made of ostrich leather.
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In unprecedented detail, it reveals where the money came from, how it was laundered, and what happened when a British judge ruled on its provenance.
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Flynn's retweeted stories that Hillary Clinton "secretly waged war" on the Catholic Church and that President Obama is a "jihadi" who "laundered" money for Muslim terrorists.
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Prosecutors said Manafort laundered illegal proceeds he generated by lobbying for Ukraine without registering as a foreign agent with the U.S. government as required by law.
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U.S. investigators say $4.5 billion was stolen and laundered from 1MDB by Najib&aposs associates, including some $700 million that landed in Najib&aposs bank account.
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Guzman, 59, faces six separate indictments across the United States, alleging he brought in billions in drugs to the country and laundered profits back to Mexico.
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The strategy is similar to what China and Russia are doing with Greece and Cyprus, widely considered places where Russian money can be laundered into euros.
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He said he laundered 90 percent of his money through China and Hong Kong, slipping it into the region's great tides of legitimate trade and finance.
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The vessel will be inspected in American Samoa, where it was brought Saturday, per AP. Go deeper: How North Korea has "laundered" coal to undercut sanctions
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It seemed there were more of them than usual, or perhaps fewer, or something about their uniforms had been altered—had their lab coats been laundered?
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That email was then laundered through WikiLeaks to disguise its origins and the entirety of it was posted online with no regard to privacy or newsworthiness.
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The $5.9 million settlement is three times the value of the $1.9 million in supposedly laundered money tied to funds stolen from the Russian state coffers.
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Lawsuits filed in the United States allege more than $4.5 billion was diverted from 1MDB and laundered through a web of shell companies and bank accounts.
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They say Vinnik "obtained" funds from the hack of Mt. Gox and laundered them through BTC-e and Tradehill, another San Francisco-based exchange he owned.
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Whatever became of Clinton's missing server emails, we know that Russia stole and laundered emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and the Democratic National Committee.
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According to the FBI, he has laundered money through more than 100 front companies around the world, and held bank accounts in at least 27 countries.
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Wanzeler in 2014 fled to Brazil, where he cannot be extradited from, leaving behind tens of millions of dollars he laundered from TelexFree accounts, prosecutors said.
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Flynn has also retweeted theories that Clinton "waged war" on the Roman Catholic Church and that President Obama "laundered" billions of dollars in cash to terrorists.
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Each money-laundering count carries a penalty of up to 15 years in prison and a fine of not less than five times the sum laundered.
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Peruvian presidential candidate, Keiko Fujimori, is facing a storm over allegations that one of her closest confidantes laundered money for her in a previous election campaign.
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Zarrab has since said that Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was aware of an international money-funneling scheme that resulted in funds being laundered for Iran.
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The complaint alleges that Credit Suisse did not have the necessary controls in place, which allowed money to be laundered through its systems, the lawyer said.
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Federal prosecutors said they earned tens of millions of dollars from that work, which they then allegedly laundered through US and foreign companies and bank accounts.
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We first meet the Kim family in their basement dwelling, where the camera lingers on the hand-laundered socks hanging to dry on a light fixture.
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Soon after the raid, a warrant was issued for Mr. Ipek's arrest, stating that he laundered vast sums for what officials call the Fethullah Terrorist Organization.
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These conspiracies were then funneled — or, more accurately, laundered — through Russian and Ukrainian intermediaries, such as oligarchs and businessmen, and fed to American politicians and journalists.
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One party investigating these allegations was the United Kingdom, because Zlochevsky had $23 million in a British bank account that UK officials believed has been laundered.
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According to the Federal Prosecutor, police are investigating allegations the directors at the state-controlled bank laundered more than 200 million reais between 2011 and 2014.
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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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Ray allegedly made as much as $1 million from his manipulationsUsing these coerced confessions, Ray laundered as much as $1 million obtained from his victims, prosecutors said.
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She says one time she went five days without eating anything and was so hungry she would chew on the plastic bags she used for laundered shirts.
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The bureau's chairman drew ridicule during Mr Sharif's trial by launching an investigation into whether the ex-PM had laundered almost $5bn through India as prime minister.
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In April, the country's top court freed former president Ollanta Humala, who had spent nine months in jail without trial over allegations he laundered money for Odebrecht.
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You have to ensure your clothes are freshly laundered and then there's the matter of making sure no one else has seen you wear the outfit before.
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Rob Wainwright, head of Europol, Europe's police agency, has estimated that 3-4% of the continent's annual criminal takings, or £3bn-4bn ($4.2bn-5.6bn), are crypto-laundered.
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In an unrelated case, Guzman has pleaded not guilty to charges that his cartel laundered billions of dollars and oversaw a ruthless campaign of murders and kidnappings.
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Danish politicians were critical of Danske Bank for not revealing exactly how much money was allegedly laundered and not saying who was legally responsible for the lapses.
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Manafort allegedly laundered more than $18 million which he used to purchase property, goods, and services in the US without reporting the income to the US government.
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The federal government alleges that they hid the payments they received in foreign accounts and laundered money through businesses, accounts, and partnerships in the U.S. and abroad.
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A newspaper report this month said Danske laundered up to $21 billion in Estonia in 26.4039-2015 - more than twice the amount initially reported by the newspaper.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Michel Temer denied on Friday any wrongdoing following a newspaper report that police are investigating whether he laundered bribes through real estate transactions.
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A man identified as a DEA informant in the report said he had recorded audio of Ramirez affirming that Ramirez laundered $15 million for Fujimori in 2011.
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Civil lawsuits filed by the U.S. Department of Justice allege that nearly $4.5 billion from 4003MDB was laundered through a complex web of transactions and shell companies.
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He recently had to push back against the show's production staff, who wanted to dress him in a cabdriver "costume" that would be laundered after each show.
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In the process, it is likely it laundered money from all kinds of questionable sources, but that is not the same as a direct link to gangsters.
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The Justice Department's accusations continued: In total, over $21 billion in 226MDB funds was laundered through American banks, enriching Mr. Najib, his family and friends, prosecutors said.
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Under terms of the DNC/Clinton deal, however, the vast majority of those funds were laundered by the DNC directly into Clinton's primary campaign against Bernie Sanders.
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The United States Justice Department is investigating the disappearance of more than $3.5 billion, much of which is believed to have been laundered through American financial institutions.
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Amid the pungent smells of dried fish and shrimp, the scents of brewed coffee and freshly laundered clothes come wafting out of the aptly named Coffee & Laundry.
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The whir of activity comes not from conditions in the world but from the ceaseless mechanism by which unpleasantness can be laundered and made fathomable, even manageable.
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A former agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was arrested on charges that he laundered money for a Colombian drug cartel, according to The Associated Press.
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Mueller alleges they were paid tens of millions of dollars for the work, and then laundered the money to hide "Ukraine payments" from the United States government.
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An FBI investigation found that over an 18-year period, personnel within the Pima County Sheriff's Office laundered RICO funds in a conspiracy to misuse those funds.
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In banking, however, Danske Bank fell 3.35 percent after the Danish lender's CEO resigned following allegations that billions of euros were laundered through the bank's Estonian branch.
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Leading the criminal division of the Department of Justice under George H. W. Bush, he shut down the illegal bank that laundered Osama bin Laden's blood money.
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Schiff has said his panel would probe allegations that Russian money may have been laundered though Trump businesses and that Moscow might have financial leverage over him.
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Federal investigators are also examining whether Manafort evaded taxes or laundered any money he received from his decade-long work for Ukraine's pro-Russia Party of Regions.
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They further allege that Manafort hid the profit from this undisclosed lobbying, with Gates's assistance, and laundered it through a series of different front companies and properties.
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Overseas authorities continue to investigate the scandal however, with American prosecutors alleging that $4.5 billion was laundered and at least $43 million went directly into Najib's pockets.
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Browder said he had shared with Grinda evidence about how $35 million allegedly connected to the 2009 murder of Magnitsky had been laundered through investments in Spanish property.
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We know that Russia used various tools to attack Hillary Clinton - and then laundered that stolen information through organizations including WikiLeaks as part of an information warfare campaign.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has alleged in civil lawsuits that more than $4.5 billion from 1MDB was laundered through a complex web of transactions and shell companies.
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The 59-year-old faces six separate indictments across the United States, alleging he brought in billions in drugs to the country and laundered profits back to Mexico.
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The Chinese delegation initially alleged Mr Ling had laundered enormous sums of money through the US but it was unable to provide enough evidence to satisfy US prosecutors.
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In 2016, between $800 billion and $2 trillion in illicit cash, equivalent to 2%-5% of global GDP, was laundered in various ways, according to the United Nations.
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The report featured a man identified as a pilot and DEA informant who said he recorded Ramirez stating that he laundered $15 million for Fujimori's previous political campaign.
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Karimova, a former Uzbek government official who has not been seen in public for several years, laundered the money through the U.S. financial system, the Justice Department alleged.
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Manafort, with the assistance of Gates, laundered more than $30,000,000, income that he concealed from the United States Department of the Treasury, the Department of Justice, and others.
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They eschewed excessive displays of wealth and carefully laundered the money, investing in property and burning or gambling away any sequentially numbered bills that could be easily traced.
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They also suspected that Pickard laundered LSD profits—with the help of three exotic dancers in San Francisco—to a well-heeled research institute that studied psychedelic drugs.
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Around the same time, Mr. Manafort began taking out loans on properties that Monday's indictment alleges were purchased using money laundered through overseas accounts from his Ukraine work.
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But that information has the added advantage of making it easier to spot criminal money from across the world being laundered through London's real estate and financial industries.
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Agents also seized $5.2 million worth of heroin and identified over $23 million in drug profits from the organization laundered to Guatemala in the span of a year.
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The laundered money — which totaled $30 million — came from Mr. Manafort's work as a lobbyist and political consultant to Viktor F. Yanukovych, the Russia-aligned former Ukrainian president.
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The United States Justice Department said that at least $4.5 billion from 1MDB was laundered through American financial institutions and misspent by Mr. Najib, his family and associates.
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The cloths are scraped of residues, which are composted for the school's rooftop garden, and then the cloths go into the washing machine to be laundered for reseeding.
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Less than 103 percent of the estimated $1.5 trillion plus laundered by criminals worldwide each year through the financial system is frozen or confiscated, according to UNODC statistics.
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Manafort allegedly laundered and hid from the federal government $30 million in income with Gates' assistance, prosecutors said, while Gates allegedly gained $3 million through the offshore accounts.
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The special counsel alleges, among other charges, that Manafort and his associate, Rick Gates, laundered millions of dollars they received from a Ukrainian political party bolstered by Russia.
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Turner also oversaw the prosecution of Liberty Reserve, which prosecutors said laundered more than $6 billion for criminals involved in Ponzi schemes, hacking, child pornography and drug trafficking.
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This means Delaware has a suspect pool of about 100 people, from the mother of the bride ("Botoxed as smooth as a freshly laundered bedsheet") to the busboys.
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Another prosecutor, Jose Domingo Perez, was investigating the opposition leader Keiko Fujimori over accusations that she laundered $1.2 million from the construction company for her 2011 presidential campaign.
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Just prior to the 2014 World Cup, the largest political scandal in Brazilian history broke, which involved more than five billion dollars in laundered money, bribes, and kickbacks.
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The indictment charges from October 2017 said that Manafort spent more than $1 million in laundered money at high-end clothing stores in New York and Beverly Hills.
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The complaints alleged more than $4.5 billion was diverted from 1MDB and laundered through a web of shell companies and bank accounts located in the United States and elsewhere.
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Facebook is believed to have been trying to prevent any ill-gotten data from being laundered through these data brokers and then directly imported to Facebook to target users.
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She also has pill-out valet bars, which allow her to plan her outfits and even determine how they should be laundered, thanks to signs that she's had laminated.
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The Justice Department has led an effort to recover assets that it says were stolen by foreign officials — dictators, politicians and ruling elites – and laundered in the United States.
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Vinnik "obtained" funds from the hack of Mt. Gox and laundered them through BTC-e and Tradehill, another San Francisco-based exchange he owned, they said in the statement.
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Browder, who has been campaigning to expose corruption and money laundering, said it was an important new development as Estonia had been a "key way station" for laundered money.
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Those opposed to any loosening of the ban say "dirty ivory" can be laundered by poachers and crime syndicates with licit supplies and that it makes ivory socially acceptable.
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That separate trial, which is set to begin in September, involves accusations that Manafort failed to register as a foreign agent, made false statements to investigators and laundered money.
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He laundered millions of euros earned from its criminal activities in other countries through several Spanish firms and then sent the money abroad to those named, the document said.
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The profits are immense: in 2012 police broke up an operation in Fuenlabrada near Madrid, Spain's best-known Chinatown, claimed to have laundered profits of €200m-300m a year.
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But it's far less than the value of Prevezon's real estate in Manhattan -- which Shelley estimates at $17 million -- that had been partially acquired with those allegedly laundered funds.
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That complaint said officials at 1MDB, their relatives and other associates diverted more than $3.5 billion from the state fund and laundered it through complex transactions and shell companies.
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Meanwhile, it emerged that in 2012 Mr Osborne had interceded in the US Justice Department's investigation into HSBC over money laundered through its American branches by Mexican drug lords.
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In the past, Flynn has also retweeted theories that Clinton "waged war" on the Roman Catholic Church and that President Obama "laundered" billions of dollars in cash to terrorists.
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The scheme has been named the "Azerbaijani Laundromat" by the OCCRP, because vast sums of money were laundered through a series of shell companies to disguise the money's origin.
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The proceeds were laundered in and through the United States, and were used to purchase assets including a $50 million Manhattan condominium and an $80 million yacht, it said.
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HSBC declined to comment on the allegation late on Saturday by the Nigerian presidency that the bank had laundered more than $100 million for former military dictator Sani Abacha.
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Unless they do that, Mr. Yurchyshyn said, it will not be possible for Ukraine's government to claim assets in the United States possibly related to money laundered from Ukraine.
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"But we're like, Oh my God, he's in a gang and I found money and I laundered money," Gray continues, with Genao adding that his character also got shot.
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There was the protégé, having turned against his mentor and agreed to a plea deal, starting to give his account of how the two of them laundered their income.
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It is easy to understand why the United States wants to protect an already fragile financial system from funds originating in former Soviet states and laundered through European banks.
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The European Union member country of just 1.3 million people has been rocked by revelations that banks there laundered money from Russia, Moldova and Azerbaijan via non-resident accounts.
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The Wall Street Journal reported the DOJ is investigating whether a fugitive financier laundered millions and used the funds to pay a legal team that includes New Jersey Gov.
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"We cannot wait," Mr. Mello said, citing the demands of the Petrobras investigation, called Operation Carwash in reference to a service station in the capital, Brasília, that laundered money.
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Even the bank HSBC, which laundered hundreds of millions of dollars of drug money and illegally facilitated transactions with countries like Iran and Libya, got away with a fine.
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" The special counsel's indictment says Manafort and Gates laundered the money through "scores of United States and foreign corporations, partnerships and bank accounts" from approximately 2006 through "at least 2016.
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These complaints alleged that more than $4.5 billion was diverted from 1MDB and laundered through a web of shell companies and bank accounts located in the United States and elsewhere.
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Najib started the fund in 2009 and U.S. investigators say at least $4.5 billion was stolen and laundered by Najib&aposs associates, some of which landed in his bank account.
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They said she then laundered the money through illicit transactions involving shell companies in Pakistan, China and Turkey with the ultimate goal of using the money to benefit Islamic State.
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The European Union member country of just 7.33 million people has been rocked by revelations that banks there laundered money from Russia, Moldova and Azerbaijan via non-resident bank accounts.
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A Chinese casino junket operator has returned $4.63 million of the $81 million that was stolen from the Bangladesh central bank and laundered in Manila casinos, The Associated Press reports.
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"A network of front companies allegedly laundered millions of dollars in support of such shipments," the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jessie Liu, said in a news release.
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US officials claim that laundered funds were pumped into New York condos, hotels, yachts and a jet, and used to fund Hollywood films such as "The Wolf of Wall Street."
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"Sometimes Chinese aggression is explicitly state-sponsored and sometimes it's laundered through many of Beijing's so-called 'private' sector entities that are in bed with Xi's communist party," he said.
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Prosecutors also allege that Manafort laundered more than $30 million from his work to buy property and other items in the United States, evading more than $15 million in taxes.
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Police, in response, in early 2014 made their first arrest in Operation Car Wash, so named, reportedly, because some of the money had been laundered through an actual car wash.
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Mr. Mueller's team found that more than $75 million passed through offshore accounts, and that Mr. Manafort laundered more than $18 million to furnish a lavish, largely tax-free lifestyle.
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More than allowing illicit money to be laundered, India's demonetization exercise did not result in any direct fiscal benefit to the government, Nomura analysts wrote in a note last week.
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The U.S. Justice Department estimated that $4.5 billion was diverted from the fund and laundered through a complex web of bank accounts and shell companies across multiple countries, Reuters reported.
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He said the new rules should focus on defending financial stability, protecting consumers and tackling the risks of money being laundered using crypto-assets, which can cross borders with ease.
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Uniforms also have to reflect the realities of life on the road, with fabric blends that resist stains and wrinkles and can be laundered, if necessary, in a hotel sink.
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The Central Unit of Financial Intelligence (UCREF), a government institution, concluded in a report there were indications Moise had laundered money through a personal account he held with his wife.
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While he said his priority would be to investigate allegations of whether Russians laundered money through the Trump Organization, the transcripts could also become another matter for Democrats to pursue.
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RBC, Canada's biggest bank, is one of several financial institutions named in documents that appear to show how some clients of law firm Mossack Fonseca evaded tax and laundered money.
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The United States Justice Department says that more than $4.5 billion in stolen 1MDB funds was laundered through American banks, and that $731 million went into Mr. Najib's personal account.
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Then they brought him back at a much lower cap hit, even though he'll end up pocketing the same amount of money—just with some of it laundered through Colorado.
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In 2014, independent Brazilian prosecutors made their first arrest in Operation Car Wash — so named, reportedly, because some of the Petrobras money had been laundered through an actual car wash.
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It is unclear how much money is laundered through Britain, but the National Crime Agency has said calculations of between 36 billion pounds and 90 billion pounds are "a significant underestimate".
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José Domingo Pérez, the prosecutor in Ms Fujimori's case, claims that she headed a "criminal organisation" within Popular Force (FP), her party, which "laundered" the Odebrecht money by registering fake donations.
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They seed memes and ideas there that have ended up in President Trump's speeches and tweets, laundered through the various blogs and websites that make up the right-wing media ecosystem.
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Most recently, in December a five-year-old deferred-prosecution agreement (DPA) with America's Department of Justice, imposed after Mexican drug gangs laundered $103m through HSBC, expired and charges were dropped.
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The suspects laundered "around 15 to 20 million Euro (16 to 22 million dollars)," a spokesperson for Openbaar Ministerie (OM), the Dutch public prosecution service, told Motherboard in a phone interview.
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The civil lawsuit alleged that more than $3.5 billion was looted from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and laundered through various shell companies by officials and others connected with the wealth fund.
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After drying off, he put on a brand-new Hanes white T-shirt to prevent his old microbiome from recolonizing his body, but an old — though freshly laundered — pair of jeans.
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"It is ongoing and it will continue if we are in the majority with power of subpoena," Schiff said of an investigation into whether Russians laundered money through the Trump Organization.
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The pair subsequently spread the money around among fellow conspirators who laundered the proceeds in various ways and got the money into the hands of traffickers in Colombia, the documents allege.
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The special counsel alleges that Manafort laundered millions of dollars and hid incomes by moving funds around the world, in places such as Cyprus, the Seychelles, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
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The indictment says more than $75 million flowed through the offshore accounts, specifically that Manafort laundered more than $463 million and Gates transferred more than $3 million from the offshore accounts.
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Panama City recently faced a real-estate bubble that many observers agree was fueled by drug money from Colombia and Venezuela being laundered through property—apartment units that remain largely uninhabited.
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According to the three-hundred-and-thirty-four-page report, the bank had laundered billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels, and violated sanctions by covertly doing business with pariah states.
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Media outlets that would never knowingly publish documents stolen by a hostile Russian power have had no compunction publishing documents stolen by a hostile Western power and then laundered through WikiLeaks.
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The office would also oversee a trial of Paul Manafort, the president's former campaign chairman, who has pleaded not guilty to charges he laundered millions of dollars through overseas shell companies.
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"I understand the value of a diamond is worth more than a paper laundry ticket from getting shirts laundered," she said, "but to me they're equally important when I draw them."
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As a wife, I cleaned more toilets, arranged more dinners and social events, laundered more clothes, paid more bills, picked up more socks off the counter than my previous unmarried self.
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United States prosecutors have said that at least $4.5 billion from the fund, known as 1MDB, was laundered through American financial institutions and misspent by Mr. Najib, his family and associates.
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The US Justice Department filed lawsuits in 2016, amended earlier this year, to recover more than $1.7 billion that prosecutors said were laundered through the fund, which is headed by Najib.
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Some of Trump's allies and right-wing media outlets have laundered the unfounded theory that the Maltese professor is a Western intelligence asset who was used to entrap the Trump campaign.
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Manafort laundered more than $30 million to buy property, goods, and services in the United States, income that he concealed from the United States Treasury, the Department of Justice, and others.
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The United States Justice Department concluded that $3.5 billion from the fund was laundered through financial institutions in the United States, citing the "astonishing greed" of individuals involved in the fraud.
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The accomplice would then deposit money to be laundered into the bank account of the customer waiting for the overseas transfer, before traveling overseas to the remitter to collect the funds.
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The complaints allege that officials at 1MDB, their relatives and other associates allegedly laundered the funds using complex transactions and shell companies with bank accounts located in the United States and abroad.
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"You don't need to hunt down dark money being laundered in some bank, we all know there's billions of dollars in assets controlled by Putin's inner circle that are public," he said.
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Should it be found guilty of that, Google faces either up to 10 million euros ($11 million) in fines or a fine of half of the value of the laundered amount involved.
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It describes how, in his mid-twenties, Sater and three associates swindled investors out of $211 million and then "carefully laundered" it through offshore accounts with the help of organized crime figures.
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Manafort is also charged with tax evasion; specifically, he is accused of failing to pay taxes on millions of dollars laundered from offshore accounts and of failing to report his foreign accounts.
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After being bombarded with dog howls and kisses, I let him out, do my nightly skincare routine, and read in bed for 20 minutes before passing out in our freshly laundered sheets.
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The indictment says that Manafort and Gates laundered the money through scores of the United States and foreign corporations, partnerships and bank accounts in order to hide Ukrainian payments from U.S. authorities.
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The indictment says that Manafort and Gates laundered the money through scores of the United States and foreign corporations, partnerships and bank accounts in order to hide Ukraine payments from U.S. authorities.
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After the payments stopped, Mueller says that Manafort laundered $30 million from offshore accounts to avoid paying U.S. taxes and then committed bank fraud by lying about his income to get loans.
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They hired the wife of a DOJ official, Bruce Ohr, his wife Nelly at Fusion GPS, reconnected Steele right back into the DOJ and basically instead of laundering money, they laundered information.
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Escobar was known to have squirreled away much of his funds and drugs during the years he spent on the lam, as much of it couldn't be kept in banks or laundered.
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Russia could have run the Democratic National Committee (DNC) operation through an above-board military contractor or laundered hacked information through a cut out who does not technically work for the government.
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The US Justice Department criminal probe into Prime Minister Najib Razak centers around billions of dollars in assets the US claims were acquired using a government fund and laundered through American firms.
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Mueller's team is reportedly planning to speak with various witnesses in the next week to learn more about Flynn's past lobbying work and whether he laundered money and lied to federal investigators.
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And the profits, likely worth hundreds of millions of dollars, are being laundered via intricate international schemes, often using front companies in countries where lax oversight makes it easy to hide money.
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He opens a drawer and hesitates, reluctant to choose between a crisply laundered white handkerchief, for his breast pocket, and a revolver—a handy tool, since Bob is off to a robbery.
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We've seen it from President Obama, when he gives $150 billion to Iran, the number one terror state, and even gives them $400 million in money-laundered cash as a ransom payment.
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In another tweet cited by the court, Gomes said dos Santos laundered Angolan money through small local lender Eurobic, in which she is the main shareholder, and through other investments in Portugal.
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It was thought that 'at least' $4 billion in cash had been laundered through a bitcoin platform since 2011; the platform had 7 million bitcoins deposited, and 5.5 million bitcoins in withdrawals.
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The US Justice Department filed lawsuits in 2016, amended earlier this year, to recover more than $1.7 billion that prosecutors said were laundered through a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund headed by Najib.
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Mueller's team is reportedly planning to speak with various witnesses in the next week to learn more about Flynn's past lobbying work and whether he laundered money and lied to federal investigators.
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In the indictment released Thursday, prosecutors allege Manafort and Gates "hid the existence and ownership of the foreign companies and bank accounts" they oversaw and laundered more than $30 million in income.
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It followed a massive leak of documents from a Panamanian law firm allegedly detailing ways hundreds of thousands of clients had evaded tax and laundered money spanning a period of almost 40 years.
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Too often, their programmes open a back door to dirty money; think of the ill-gotten Russian gains that have been laundered through Cyprus, one of the EU's most enthusiastic hawkers of passports.
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They say the laundered cash was used on big-ticket items such as a Ford F-215 truck ($21,19423), a John Deere tractor ($21942,210) and $212,978 in paper products, to list a few.
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Jaime, his son Yani, Yankel and lawyer Andres Acosta Garcia, have all been charged with engineering the decade-long scheme that allegedly laundered drug trafficking and foreign bribery proceeds through U.S. bank accounts.
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The DoJ has alleged in lawsuits that more than $4.5 billion from 1MDB was laundered through a complex web of transactions and shell companies, of which $681 million ended in Najib's bank account.
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The U.S. Justice Department, one of several foreign agencies investigating money stolen and laundered from the 1MDB fund, had listed the yacht among assets it could seize and sell to recover stolen funds.
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He added that stolen virtual currencies end up being laundered to help criminals hide their true identities and avoid arrest, which has resulted in a three-fold rise in money laundering of cryptocurrencies.
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These agents are tasked with raising red flags if they suspect corrupt money is in play but United Nations data show only a minuscule fraction of deals involving laundered money are ever flagged.
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Turncoat: 'Thug Willie' spills FLDS secrets The government also alleges that the Jeffs brothers and others laundered money by swiping food stamp debit cards and ringing up "ghost" purchases at church-friendly businesses.
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Moldova has engaged the risk consultancy Kroll to investigate the theft, working to establish all its beneficiaries and where the money ended up it was stolen and laundered, mainly through Latvia's financial system.
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CBA Chairwoman Catherine Livingstone said Narev's departure had nothing to do with the latest scandal, allegations by the financial intelligence agency that criminals and terror financiers laundered millions of dollars through CBA accounts.
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" She said Manafort laundered money not to support a family but to sustain an opulent lifestyle, "to have more houses than a family can enjoy and more suits than one man can wear.
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The Cyprus-registered company had been accused in a civil asset forfeiture case by the US Justice Department of having laundered millions in stolen Russian taxpayer money through the Manhattan real estate market.
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The kids found the RollerWorld money in season 1, then laundered the RollerWorld money in season 2, and then spent the RollerWorld money to get Cesar out of trouble and frame the Prophets.
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Mueller alleges: Overall, the indictment alleges that Manafort, with Gates's "assistance," laundered $30 million and concealed it from the US government, while Gates himself obtained more than $3 million, which he also concealed.
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"Manafort, with the assistance of Gates, laundered more than $30,000,000, income that he concealed from the United States Department of the Treasury (Treasury), the Department of Justice, and others," the new indictment reads.
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"Manafort, with the assistance of Gates, laundered more than $30,000,0003, income that he concealed from the United States Department of the Treasury (Treasury), the Department of Justice, and others," the new indictment reads.
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French criminal law lets judges enforce fines as high as half the amount laundered and in this case prosecutors estimate that up to 10.6 billion euros was denied to the French tax authorities.
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Then I take a shower, throw all my soup ingredients into the slow cooker, get my clothes out of the dryer, and realize that I have laundered my favorite pair of headphones. Joy.
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Two of Trump's former campaign aides were criminally charged in relation to their decade-long ties to a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party — and allegedly laundered money and evaded taxes to hide it.
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Levandowski's history of getting involved in mysterious side projects during his time as a Google employee might have given Waymo reason to worry that its intellectual property was being laundered through a shell company.
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The U.S. Justice Department at the time accused the banks of working with a Hong Kong company, which allegedly laundered more than $100 million for North Korea's sanctioned Foreign Trade Bank, the paper said.
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Six separate indictments across the United States lay out wide-ranging cases against Guzman and others, alleging they have brought in billions in drugs to the United States and laundered profits back to Mexico.
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Six separate indictments across the United States lay out wide-ranging cases against Guzman and others, alleging they have brought in billions in drugs to the United States and laundered profits back to Mexico.
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His trial centered on charges that he had laundered $30 million he made working for Ukrainian politicians into the US and had defrauded several US banks to get more than $20 million in loans.
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The Washington indictment alleged that more than $0003 million "flowed through" offshore accounts that Manafort and Gates used to hide profits from their work for Ukraine, and that Manafort laundered more than $18 million.
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Argentine prosecutors say Martins, who is a dual Argentine-Mexican national, exploited women and laundered the profits in at least 10 upscale brothels, cabaret bars and nightclubs in Buenos Aires over nearly three decades.
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While we often associate fall with the best scents (hello, pumpkin spice!), we'd like to make a case for what the spring season has to offer: laundered linens, fresh rain, and sweet florals galore.
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They also laundered the money by buying vehicles in the U.S. for people in Nigeria without disclosing that those people were depositing equivalent amounts into Iriele&aposs personal bank account in the African nation.
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Mexican and Colombian drug cartels laundered more than $5 billion in drug proceeds in part by exporting counterfeit goods from China, according to a U.S. Justice Department indictment against three Colombians based in Guangzhou.
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Mr. Huang does much of the tagging, pre-washing and neckband scrubbing, and hand irons and folds the laundered clothing before packaging it in brown paper and string on a counter in the basement.
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Federal police suspect that Temer laundered 2 million reais ($577,250) through real estate purchases and reforms made by family members, the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper reported in its Friday edition, without citing its sources.
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The reports also alleged an Asian crime syndicate laundered money through the Melbourne-based company's casinos, and that the company received preferential treatment from immigration officials which resulted in fast-tracking Chinese gamblers' visas.
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The U.S. Justice Department has accused the banks of working with a Hong Kong-based front company, Mingzheng International Trading Limited, which allegedly laundered more than $100 million for North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank.
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"Manafort laundered more than $30 million to buy property, goods, and services in the United States, income that he concealed from the United States Treasury, the Department of Justice, and others," the indictment said.
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The indictment said both Manafort and Gates generated tens of millions of dollars of income from Ukraine work and laundered money through scores of U.S. and foreign entities to hide payments from American authorities.
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Last week, Jarlov said a newspaper report alleging Danske Bank laundered up to $8.3 billion through its Estonian branch between 2007 and 2015 could prompt the Danish financial watchdog to open a new investigation.
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In addition, Manafort faces allegations that he laundered $30 million from work on behalf of pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians and that he hid money overseas in unreported foreign accounts to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
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Both Manafort and Gates generated tens of millions of dollars of income from Ukraine work and laundered money through scores of U.S. and foreign entities to hide payments from American authorities, the indictment said.
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While tax avoidance and evasion is estimated by the British government to cost the country around £37 billion ($21 billion) per year, the amount of money being laundered through Britain is far less clear.
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My hands were shaking so much as the train slid into Piccadilly that I spilled a cup of black coffee down the freshly laundered white shirt and tie I'd put on for the occasion.
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Prosecutors alleged that attorney Michael Avenatti laundered money and committed fraud to conceal $1 million from creditors and one of his ex-wives in newly filed court documents, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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Together with a previous complaint, the Justice Department is seeking nearly $20143 billion in assets it says were stolen from the fund, 22014Malaysia Development Berhad, and laundered through financial institutions in the United States.
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The scheme allegedly involved the use of call centers in the Philippines and throughout Latin America, with proceeds laundered through offshore shell companies and used to buy exotic cars, yachts and luxury real estate.
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My mother had laundered the parish vestments when the parish was newly founded, and my father put 10 percent of his take-home pay in the collection basket every week for his entire life.
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The government believes that power brokers in global soccer laundered hundreds of millions of dollars, much of it through the United States, as they diverted money from the sport and into their own pockets.
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It's really tough to feel sorry for white collar criminal defendants such as Chuck "my cats have an apartment in Manhattan" Blazer, who has laundered more money than we'll ever see in our lifetime.
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The U.S. Department of Justice back then accused the banks of working with a Hong Kong company, which allegedly laundered over $100 million for North Korea's sanctioned Foreign Trade Bank, according to the paper.
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He filed a new 93-count indictment against Manafort and Gates in Virginia Thursday, this time focusing on tax, bank fraud, and financial charges, and alleging that Manafort laundered $30 million with Gates's help.
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According to Jersey's Civil Asset Recovery Fund, the laundered funds recovered from confiscated assets, belonging to the son of the late dictator, Mohammed Abacha, were "derived from corruption" during the military leader's rule in Nigeria.
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ING, the Netherlands' largest financial services provider, said it was impossible to estimate how much money was laundered through its accounts, but lead prosecutor Margreet Frohberg told Reuters "hundreds of millions of euros" were involved.
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One of the most important stories in Latin American politics in recent decades begins with a 2014 Brazilian federal investigation into a Brasília gas station/laundromat where cars were washed and clothes and money laundered.
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The NCA discovered £700,20183 of Qaiser's profits, but his network may have made as much as £4 million in total based on the amount of money that he laundered through a series of cryptocurrency platforms.
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According to the charges, Stadlen is alleged to have laundered 14.3 million ringgit ($3.5 million) in proceeds from illegal activities that had been deposited in the client account of a law firm linked to Najib.
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Chikli, a visionary fraudster, ripped off some of the world's biggest corporations, and then laundered millions in China, which is serving as a massive money laundering machine for foreign criminals, an AP investigation has found.
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Also, less than 1 percent of the estimated $1.5 trillion plus laundered by criminals worldwide each year through the financial system is frozen or confiscated, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
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It followed a massive leak of documents from a Panamanian law firm allegedly detailing ways in which hundreds of thousands of clients had evaded tax and laundered money spanning a period of almost 40 years.
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But as domestic and international condemnation has grown about how the stolen money was laundered through the Philippines, the country's gaming regulator says he is amenable to the AMLC extending its reach to the casinos.
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In preparation for the guilty plea, Robert Mueller filed superseding criminal information earlier today which alleged Gates and Manafort laundered tens of millions of dollars that they earned through their work for the Ukrainian government.
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Although it conceded that Latvia had sought international cooperation to tackle corruption, it urged stronger anti-money laundering measures and warned of the risk that foreign bribes could be laundered by foreigners through Latvian banks.
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The probe follows several media reports that claim Crown hired travel agents with ties to drug traffickers to bring Chinese gamblers into Australia, knowingly laundered money at its casinos and had Chinese gamblers' visas expedited.
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Prosecutors said Cynk was among about 40 companies whose shares were manipulated by individuals overseen by Mulholland, a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, resulting in $250 million in proceeds that were laundered through offshore law firms.
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The Pomerantz lawsuit alleges Gerdau failed to disclose it and its executives bribed tax authorities, defrauded Brazil's tax revenue service of $429 million, laundered illegal funds and carried out influence peddling, according to the filing.
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The indictment said Cynk was among about 40 public companies whose shares were manipulated by individuals overseen by Mulholland, resulting in $250 million in proceeds that were laundered through at least five offshore law firms.
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In order to hide Ukraine payments from United States authorities, from approximately 2006 through at least 2016, MANAFORT and GATES laundered the money through scores of United States and foreign corporations, partnerships and bank accounts.
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On Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation," she answered a question about the women who have accused the president of past sexual misconduct in a manner hardly laundered by the likes of Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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Jorge Cifuentes Villa, a Colombian trafficker who also shipped cocaine to Mr. Guzmán, recently testified that, during his career, he laundered up to $15 million in drug-trade profits through a crooked debit card company.
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The Greek police detained the man, Aleksandr V. Vinnik, last year on an American warrant that accuses him of running a Moscow-based Bitcoin exchange that laundered as much as $4 billion in illegal funds.
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However, money is also laundered to facilitate future crimes, particularly where the source of the funds would reveal an illegal purpose, or where money would otherwise be subject to a state or federal disclosure requirement.
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It is unclear how much money is laundered through Britain, but the National Crime Agency has said calculations of between 36 billion pounds ($50.83 billion) and 90 billion pounds ($127.08 billion) are "a significant underestimate".
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In Stone's mind, Rogow said, that meant the lawmakers' questions — and his answers — had nothing to do with WikiLeaks or Assange, even though U.S. intelligence officials have said Moscow laundered its pilfered emails through WikiLeaks.
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Kate will file a complaint with the O.A.S. Inter-American Human Rights Commission, claiming Mexico's Attorney General leaked information about what was supposed to be a secret investigation into claims she laundered money ... something she denies.
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In addition, the New York Times reported yesterday that the investigation is looking into whether Trump associates laundered money they'd received from Russia, presumably as part of a payoff for colluding with Moscow during the campaign.
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Rossi vowed to tackle crime in the area, where he said half of all economic activity is illegal, 1 billion euros ($1.11 billion) in taxes go unpaid every year, and money is laundered through international transfers.
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Manafort alone allegeldy laundered more than $18 million which was used to buy property, goods and serves in the U.S. Manafort is accused of concealing that income from the U.S. Treasury and the Department of Justice.
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Last year, the New York Times ran an investigative series called Towers of Secrecy looking at how shadowy money was being laundered through shell companies used to buy up swaths of high-end domestic real estate.
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From there, the money is quickly laundered through a series of bank accounts that can be traced to Hong Kong and China, where the trail often goes cold because diverging regulations foil monitoring, CrowdStrike's Meyers said.
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Hezbollah kept a cut and laundered the rest to cartel operatives in Latin America through the hawala system, an informal money distribution system that spans the Muslim world and is typically used for things like remittances.
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The Treasury Department on Tuesday announced a new tranche of sanctions against seven Venezuelan individuals and two dozen business entities over an alleged currency scheme that resulted in $85033 billion in embezzled or laundered government funds.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has alleged in lawsuits that more than $4.5 billion from 1MDB was laundered through a complex web of transactions and shell companies, of which $681 million ended in Najib's bank account.
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Textbooks and study guides, pens, erasers, and paper clips piled on her desk, sheets, blankets, and pillows on her bed, her laundered and folded pajamas, her junior-high-school uniform hanging in the closet—all untouched.
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If you're buying honey at a grocery store, chances are you're purchasing a product that is laundered, or honey that is diluted with fillers like high-fructose corn syrup, yet labeled and sold as pure honey.
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The conspirators laundered the equivalent of $95,000 through transactions meant to conceal their identities, including to purchase a virtual private network (VPN) account and to lease a server in Malaysia to host some dissemination web sites.
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The Greek police detained Mr. Musatov's client, Aleksandr V. Vinnik, on an American warrant that accuses him of running a Moscow-based Bitcoin exchange, BTC-e, that laundered as much as $4 billion in illegal funds.
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Mr. Mueller's team found that more than $22014 million passed through offshore accounts, and that Mr. Manafort laundered more than $25.4 million to pay for real estate, luxury goods and other services in the United States.
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Throughout the campaign, Fayard has been dogged with questions about her experience and lingering allegations of serious ethics violations involving her father's money being illegally laundered into campaign accounts during her previous bid for public office.
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Wainwright said that the money being laundered was chiefly the proceeds of drug sales and that there had been a rise in the number of professional money laundering syndicates, who took a commission for their service.
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One-time national cricket captain Khan won elections in July after spearheading a campaign in the courts and on the streets against Sharif, alleging he and his family plundered the country's exchequer and laundered money abroad.
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Manafort laundered more than $18 million, which was used by him to buy property goods and services in the United States, income that he concealed from the United States Treasury, the Department of Justice and others.
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According to the source, Najib may also face money laundering charges, which would carry a maximum sentence of 15 years' jail and a fine of no less than five times the value of the laundered proceeds.
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The actor was reportedly paid up to $25 million to play the 2013 film's leading man and more to act as a producer, but the movie is said to have been funded by laundered money from 1MDB.
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The investigation, code-named Operation Shadow, builds off a case last year by the Spanish police that claimed that a group had laundered 40 million euros of earnings from discount stores operated by Chinese businessmen across Spain.
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It's been five days since the Panama Papers, which some are calling the biggest leak in the history of journalism, uncovered evidence showing his close friends laundered money through elaborate offshore financial schemes, likely for his benefit.
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And as the New York Times revealed this week, there are hours of unreleased, closed-door Congressional testimony about the Trump family's long-standing links to Russian criminals who needed their dirty money laundered via real estate.
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According to a Brazilian prosecutor, there is evidence that Mossack Fonseca, one of Panama's largest law firms, laundered money for some of those implicated in a vast bribery scandal centred on Petrobras, Brazil's state-controlled oil giant.
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Former Afren Chief Executive Osman Shahenshah and former Chief Operating Officer Shahid Ullah laundered more than $45 million, some of which was used to buy luxury properties in Mustique and the British Virgin Islands, the SFO said.
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Greek police said on Tuesday they had arrested two members of an aid organization on the island of Lesbos and were investigating a total of 30 on suspicion they smuggled migrants into Greece, spied and laundered money.
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LONDON (Reuters) - "Dirty" Russian money hidden in British assets and laundered through City of London financial institutions is undermining the government's efforts to take a tougher stance against Moscow's "aggressive foreign policy", UK lawmakers said on Monday.
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"Using fraudulent documents and representations, the co-conspirators allegedly laundered the funds through a series of complex transactions and shell companies with bank accounts located in the U.S. and abroad," the department said in a 2017 statement.
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A Russian operation, which laundered $85033 billion of illicit money into Western financial institutions, was used to divert funds to North Korea's ballistic missile program and to buy influence among Moldovan parliamentarians, among various other corrupt aims.
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The new rules are expected to be presented in detail on Wednesday, after Danske Bank has presented its long-awaited internal probe into allegations money from Russia and former Soviet states was laundered though its Estonian branch.
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In the 2015 drug importation case that led to his cooperation with the government, he transported at least 14 kilograms of heroin and cocaine and laundered about $670,000 in drug proceeds, the judge said at his sentencing.
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While you probably won't need to machine wash your SWIMS (you could just take a sponge and dab away any dirt), these shoes are fabricated with materials that can be laundered at up to 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Last year, financial authorities in Andorra intervened in a small bank called BPA following an accusation by the United States that it was linked to billions of dollars in laundered funds including money illegally taken from PDVSA.
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He did a lot of it through tracking the money and how the money was being laundered by a kind of a check-cashing scheme, and he had connected that money-laundering scheme to the organization itself.
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They are an investment, and though they have to be laundered after use, the plus side is that they will not add to the trash: Denim flatware place setting, $42 for two, $76 for four, food52.com.
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"Trump's push for Ukraine to investigate Biden was helped by two Soviet-born business partners who bought access with big political contributions illegally laundered through a shell corporation," said Brendan Fischer, the CLC's director of federal reform.
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The charges allege that Manafort and Gates were paid tens of millions of dollars for work on behalf of a pro-Kremlin political party in Ukraine and then laundered the payments to hide them from U.S. authorities.
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Foreign lobbying registration violations compose most of his DC criminal indictment -- though allegations that he laundered money through foreign bank accounts to avoid paying taxes are part of a separate case he faces from Mueller in Virginia.
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Fourth-largest lender Bank of China said in March it is considering all its options in an Italian case in which it is alleged that billions of euros of illicit earnings were laundered through its Milan branch.
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In its indictment, the government alleged Vinnik had received funds from the Mt. Gox hacks and laundered them through online exchanges including BTC-e, an exchange he operated, and Tradehill, a now-defunct San Francisco-based exchange.
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The bank has launched its own investigation into the case which it said dated back to 21-26.4039, after a newspaper report this month said Danske laundered up to $8.3 billion — more than twice the amount previously reported.
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A ring of scammers operating both in India and the U.S. coerced victims, the DoJ says, into transferring money to them either directly or by purchasing bank cards or iTunes gift cards, which scammers laundered into money orders.
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In 2014, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project revealed Russians had laundered $20.8 billion from Russian shell companies to 96 countries around the world using an elaborate scheme over the course of three and a half years.
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Manafort, alone, allegedly laundered more than $18 million which was used by the former Trump campaign chairman to buy property, goods, and services in the U.S. while concealing that income from the U.S. Treasury and the Justice Department.
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The bureau's chairman drew ridicule during Mr Sharif's trial by launching an investigation into whether the ex-PM had laundered almost $5bn through India as prime minister: the case appeared to rest on a wildly erroneous newspaper article.
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Manafort, alone, laundered more than $18 million which was used by the former Trump campaign chairman to buy property, goods, and services in the U.S. Manafort concealed that income from the U.S. Treasury and the Department of Justice.
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A federal indictment in the Eastern District of New York, where Guzman is expected to be prosecuted, accuses him of overseeing a trafficking cartel with thousands of members and billions of dollars in profits laundered back to Mexico.
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The Prevezon case The Prevezon case -- a civil asset forfeiture action filed by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York against a number of apartments allegedly purchased with the laundered money -- illustrates the problem.
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The British National Crime Agency said this month that potentially hundreds of billions of pounds were being laundered through Britain every year, and that it was a prime destination for Russians looking to legitimize the proceeds of corruption.
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TALLINN, May 13 (Reuters) - Estonian police said on Friday more than $13 billion (11 billion euros) was laundered through the small Baltic state's banks from 2012 to 2016, with at least $7.3 billion through non-resident bank accounts.
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But one of the most common countries to keep laundered money, the Grand Caymans—a place several FIFA execs used for bank transfers—has become much more vigilant about financial crimes, as have other conventional money laundering havens.
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During his career, Mr. Sands has been credited with helping rescue Britain's banks during the 2008 fiscal crisis and harshly criticized after Standard Chartered paid New York State $340 million to settle claims it laundered money for Iran.
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Technically you or a guest could carry staph onto freshly laundered sheets, but the longer you go without washing them, the more staph builds up in your bed and the higher the likelihood is of it infecting you.
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Goldin argues that the Sacklers have laundered their reputation with their philanthropy, and that their legacy as those who have profited from helping to create the opioid crisis will eventually supersede their charitable giving in the public consciousness.
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The complaint charges the Roys with criminal conspiracy, fraud and criminal misconduct, saying they laundered funds "through a labyrinth of shell companies and a complex web of fund routing" and failed to make necessary disclosures to oversight agencies.
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"As long as there is a legal trade in mammoth, ivory of all kinds can be laundered into it," said Mark Jones, associate director for policy for the Born Free Foundation, a wildlife conservation organization based in London.
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In a new filing on Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice moved to seize artwork by Picasso and Basquiat that it said had been purchased with laundered Malaysian money and gifted to DiCaprio by associates of Red Granite.
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"Corrupt military officials have been able to benefit from the conflict through the creation of fake defense contracts, the proceeds of which are often laundered abroad in the UK, U.S. and elsewhere," the watchdog said in a statement.
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In the most extreme scenario, assuming all the transactions were laundered funds and scaling fines imposed on Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas proportionately, the fine could hit 53 billion Danish crowns ($8.3 billion), analysts at Jyske Bank reckon.
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The note also said that the Russian authorities had repeatedly ignored Moldovan requests for help to trace the origins of the laundered money and information to piece together how the scheme was carried out and who was involved.
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Though Professor Bagley lives in Florida and the supposedly laundered funds were sent to Florida banks, prosecutors said they were prosecuting the case in Manhattan because the money passed through New York City as it came from abroad.
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Danske Bank removed Thomas Borgen as chief executive with immediate effect following the revelation that much of the €200bn ($230bn) in foreign money, mostly Russian, that flowed through a branch of the Danish bank in Estonia had been laundered.
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Manafort, alone, allegedly laundered more than $18 million which was used by the former Trump campaign chairman to buy property, goods, and services in the U.S., while concealing that income from the U.S. Treasury and the Department of Justice.
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Najib&aposs long-ruling coalition suffered a shocking defeat in May 9 elections amid anger over at least $4.5 billion that investigators say was looted and laundered by Najib&aposs associates from a state investment fund he set up.
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COPENHAGEN, July 4 (Reuters) - A newspaper report alleging Danske Bank laundered up to $8.3 billion through its Estonian branch could prompt Denmark's financial watchdog to open a new investigation into the bank, the country's business minister said on Wednesday.
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U.S. investigators say $4.5 billion was stolen and laundered from 1MDB by his associates, some of which landed in Najib&aposs bank account and $27.3 million of it used to buy a rare pink diamond necklace for his wife.
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"Money-laundering crime does major harm to our society, and the law contains strong possibilities for penalties if financial companies don't do enough to prevent black money from being laundered," general prosecutor Morten Niels Jakobsen said in a statement.
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This was the harmattan, the seasonal trade wind that blows from the Sahara over West Africa in the winter months, disrupting air travel and halving the time it takes to dry a freshly laundered T-shirt on a clothesline.
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This strange ad for Chinese detergent Qiaobi from March 2016 showed a black man being pushed into a washing machine by a Chinese woman and being "laundered" into a light-skinned, young Chinese man, who emerges from the machine.
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Neutrino researchers tracked the bitcoin funds acquired from WannaCry 1.0 and noticed that they got laundered and converted to Monero via a service called ShapeShift, a Swiss company that allows for easy, quick, and relatively anonymous conversions of cryptocurrencies.
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Next we received information that the real place to go for the best chicha and chicharrón in the city was La Cancha market in Cochabamba, just south of all the shiny new condominium buildings financed with laundered cocaine money.
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The Justice Department said that Aluko and Okokore then laundered their illicit revenues through the United States and used the money to buy $144 million in assets including the Manhattan condominium and the $80 million yacht, the Galactica Star.
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LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Russian money hidden in British assets and laundered through City of London financial institutions damages the government's efforts to take a tough stance against Moscow's aggressive foreign policy, a committee of lawmakers said on Monday.
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Federal investigators have also discovered that attempts to infiltrate the program were made by people with possible ties to Chinese and Iranian intelligence, and that international fugitives who laundered money in their home countries gained citizenship through the program.
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It was not clear whether prosecutors had found any evidence that North Koreans laundered money through the bank, but the holes in the system meant to trace such transactions were a chief concern of the Department of Financial Services.
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Other cases have received less media coverage, such as a Spanish investigation into the Luxembourg-headquartered Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), which is accused of having laundered hundreds of millions of euros through its branch in Madrid.
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Making property ownership more transparent would discourage the flow of laundered money from abroad into Canadian property, and would deter the use of local nominees and shell companies to circumvent the foreign-ownership tax and other efforts to curb speculation.
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Cameron's father, Ian, and members of his Conservative Party were among the tens of thousands of rich and famous people named in a leak of documents from Panama-based Mossack Fonseca which showed how clients had evaded tax and laundered money.
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Mingzheng International Trading Limited has facilitated prohibited dollar transactions through the United States on behalf of the Foreign Trade Bank, a North Korean bank, and laundered the proceeds, the U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Columbia said in a statement.
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The database contains details of those involved in the shell company 'eco-system', from those who set up the companies to the beneficiaries of laundered money and the professional mediators who bring the operators and beneficiaries together, the government note said.
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Also, Putin's cronies and other Russian oligarchs — whose game is to make tons of dirty money in Russia and then take it to London, where it can be laundered for safekeeping — are now getting more scrutinized than ever by British authorities.
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Prosecutors say that Manafort, with help from Gates, laundered more than $353 million to hide profits he earned from his work overseas — money that he allegedly kept in unreported foreign bank accounts and failed to include in his tax returns.
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Denaj said Albanian authorities had seized on average some 9 million euros worth of illegally laundered funds and assets annually since the ruling Socialist Party took power in 2013, up from an annual average of just 230,000 euros before that date.
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According to the indictment, she then laundered the money in a series of wire transactions totalling more than $150,000 to individuals and suspected shell entities in Pakistan, Turkey, and China, although the source is the rest of the money is unclear.
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Announcing the asset seizure case last week, the U.S. Department of Justice said officials at 1MDB, their relatives and other associates diverted more than $3.5 billion from the state fund and laundered it through complex transactions with international shell companies.
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They have said that corrupt politicians and business people from Nigeria and many other countries have laundered their ill-gotten gains in Britain's property market, while London also has ties to numerous tax havens routinely used to hide stolen money.
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It is unclear how much money is laundered through Britain in total, but the National Crime Agency (NCA), a UK prosecutor, has said calculations of 36 billion pounds to 90 billion pounds ($50 billion-$127 billion) are "a significant underestimate".
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These new lawsuits target assets collected by corrupt officials and their associates through a massive scheme that stole billions of dollars from the people of Malaysia and laundered the proceeds across the world, U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said in a statement.
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Manafort hid both the extent of his payments and the extent of his work on behalf of this party; ultimately, more than $75 million flowed through offshore accounts related to the work, and at least $18 million was laundered by Manafort.
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It's believed that the money has been stolen or laundered through a secondary firm iFinex used to hold them called Crypto Capital, though the disappearance of a near-billion dollars was not disclosed to anyone investing their funds in the coin.
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The officials allegedly diverted more than $3.5 billion in 1MDB funds using fraudulent documents and laundered the funds through a series of complex transactions and shell companies with bank accounts located in the Singapore, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the United States.
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The zero-export quota pertains only to wild-caught animals—not ones allegedly bred in captivity—which means earless monitor lizards caught in the wild, like so many other reptile species scooped up in Indonesia, can simply be laundered into legality.
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The trial was set to start on Monday, but late Friday night, federal prosecutors in New York announced they settled the case with Prevezon, the company accused of buying up "high-end commercial space and luxury apartments" with laundered money.
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TALLINN/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - More than $13 billion (11 billion euros) were laundered through banks in the small Baltic state of Estonia from 2012-2016, with at least 7.3 billion euros in assets through non-resident bank accounts, police said on Friday.
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They did not say how much money had been laundered through the bitcoin mining operation but added they had for now seized 31,320 euros ($34,903) worth of the currency as well as cash, motorbikes and luxury cars and a small aircraft.
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In May, data from Estonia's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) showed that more than $13 billion had been laundered through banks in the country from 2012 to 2016, with at least 7.3 billion of that going through non-resident bank accounts.
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The former Democratic legislator apparently took bribes from a variety of companies and individuals looking to trade in on his influence, then laundered the money through his law offices, intentionally making the sums look like legal fees, the Associated Press reports.
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"We need to find out where he's laundered money, we need to find out whether he's engaged in conspiracy and whether or not he's colluded, not only with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, but also with China, as well," she said.
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LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Britain is determined to tackle the problem of illicit money flows, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday, after a report by lawmakers said Russian money laundered by British financial institutions harms national security.
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Joumaa was designated by the U.S. Treasury in 2011 under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act and is a key figure in the Lebanese-Canadian Bank case, where Hezbollah laundered drug money through West African businesses and U.S. used car dealerships.
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Manafort is facing 2202 counts of bank and tax fraud, including allegations that he laundered $2628 million from work on behalf of pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians and that he hid money overseas in unreported foreign accounts to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
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He proceeded to gift the pieces to family members and a growing network of associates — which included "mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, convicts, drug traffickers, and even a family of Mormons" — in exchange for a cut of the laundered winnings.
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"Because everyone can see that, contrary to the United States, Europe has become the first destination for laundered crime money from Russia and other former Soviet Union states, and that is a problem for our security in Europe," he said.
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Mr. Manafort is now under indictment, charged by Mr. Mueller with a range of financial crimes, including that he concealed years of lobbying for the pro-Russia government in Ukraine, and laundered millions of dollars in proceeds from that work.
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In May, data from Estonia's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) showed that more than $13 billion had been laundered through banks in the country from 2012 to 2016, with at least $7.3 billion of that going through non-resident bank accounts.
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The American Justice Department, which has been investigating the theft of Malaysian public funds because they were laundered through the United States, says at least $3.5 billion was stolen under Mr. Najib, with $731 million ending up in his personal account.
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The former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, surrendered to the F.B.I. and pleaded not guilty to charges that he laundered millions of dollars through overseas shell companies — using the money to buy luxury cars, real estate, antique rugs and expensive clothes.
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In the most extreme scenario — assuming all the transactions were laundered funds and scaling past fines imposed on Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas proportionately — the penalty could hit 53 billion Danish crowns (about $8.3 billion), analysts at Jyske Bank predict.
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It is the financial center, where money invested on Wall Street or laundered into real estate is far removed from the border economy and from the United States-driven flow of drugs and weapons that accounts for so much pain.
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Outside the hearing room, members of the alt right and conservative media spun up to say that Vindman himself is probs the real whistleblower, and he laundered his complaint through another person who these yabbos have been saying is the whistleblower.
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In order to hide Ukraine payments from United States authorities, from approximately 2006 through at least 2016, MANAFORT, with the assistance of Gates and Kilimnik, laundered the money through scores of United States and foreign corporations, partnerships, and bank accounts. 2.
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Prosecutors believe the men laundered 15-20 million euros ($16-22 million) for drug dealers who sold their wares at online marketplaces on the "Dark Web" — web sites that are invisible to search engines and only reachable using specialized software.
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The drug empire generated tens of millions of dollars, which Barrera laundered, and protected by dozens of armed guards and enforcers, many of whom at his direction threatened or killed individuals who owed money or posed a threat, prosecutors said.
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" Quotable "In 'Inheritance From Mother' I laundered, sanitized and toned down the kinds of things my mother did and said, for one reason: I wanted my novel to remain within the bounds of what is usually referred to as realism.
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His jailing in Britain, where he had laundered millions of pounds and sent his children to an expensive private school, was hailed as a high point in the international fight against graft and an important signal to other corrupt politicians.
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"These new lawsuits target assets collected by corrupt officials and their associates through a massive scheme that stole billions of dollars from the people of Malaysia and laundered the proceeds across the world," U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said in a statement.
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Gates knows about all of Manafort's activities Manafort has, to date, denied any and all charges against him -- including the allegations Thursday that he and Gates laundered more than $30 million and didn't pay taxes on it for a decade.
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Of that, just 1 percent of the laundered money will be recovered by governments or law enforcement, according to John Cassara, a money laundering expert who worked for the State Department and the Department of Treasury for more than 25 years.
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The indictment against Manafort and Gates says they both generated tens of millions of dollars of income from Ukraine work and laundered money through scores of U.S. and foreign entities to hide payments from U.S. authorities between 2006 and through at least 2016.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former minister of mines in Guinea was arrested on Tuesday on U.S. charges that he laundered bribe payments he had accepted to help award a Chinese conglomerate valuable rights, including near control of the West African country's mining sector.
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"High-end real estate has effectively become a safety deposit box for laundered money because there is a no-questions-asked way of doing business," said Clark Gascoigne, deputy director of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition, an international anti-corruption group.
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But she and a Washington, DC-based former Soviet military officer, Rinat Akhmetshin, engaged in a lobbying campaign to refute the substance of Magnitsky and Browder's accusations -- the better to stop any US asset forfeiture of money that might have been laundered therefrom.
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The documents — more than 11.5 million encrypted internal documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm — have led to various reports detailing the foreign ownership of multiple prime London properties, sparking fears that some multimillion-dollar deals are being financed with laundered money.
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It took the London Fire Brigade almost two hours to get the flames under control and, after a brief investigation, they suggested that the blaze was started by a pile of freshly laundered towels that had been stacked in the cafe's kitchen.
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To hide the work they were doing for Ukraine, the indictment says, Manafort and Gates laundered the payments they received for that work through a complex network of companies and bank accounts they set up both in the United States and overseas.
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At the very least, experts believe, a talkative Chapo could bring down a number of Trump fanboys in U.S. border patrol, and cause major trouble for the international financial institutions that, like Wachovia and HSBC, gladly laundered the drug lord's alleged billions.
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Prosecutors say the website has generated some $500 million in prostitution-related revenue since its launch in 2004 and has laundered the funds by routing them through seemingly unrelated entities, using foreign accounts and converting it into and out of cryptocurrencies. Backpage.
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The indictment also accuses Zamora-Quezada of being a part of an extensive international money-laundering scheme, saying he laundered money through a money exchange house, known as a casa de cambio, and sent it to various accounts in financial institutions in Mexico.
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Manafort appeared in court Tuesday for the opening day of his Virginia trial, where he faces 18 charges of bank and tax fraud, including allegations that he laundered $30 million made from lobbying for pro-Russia political parties in Ukraine several years ago.
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Banks have been slapped with vast sums for not preventing money being laundered through their accounts, and the call for action comes after Commonwealth Bank of Australia last week was fined a record $530 million for breaching money laundering and terror financing laws.
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He was reportedly pushing President Trump for the release of a Turkish businessman named Reza Zarrab — a man who laundered money for the Iranian government, but had enough friends in the Turkish government for them to put pressure on our Commander in Chief.
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Additionally, the indictment alleges that both Clark and Kinsella engaged in other corruption, including Kinsella paying more than $640,000 in bribes to an official at another JFK terminal, and Clark receiving bribes — also laundered through the shell company — from another unnamed vendor.
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GENEVA — The authorities in Switzerland said on Tuesday that they had begun criminal proceedings against one of the country's oldest banks, BSI, after allegations that it had laundered huge sums for "politically exposed" individuals linked to a scandal-plagued Malaysian state investment fund.
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Kate -- who interviewed El Chapo while he was on the run -- is an investor in Tequila Honor, and our sources say the government wants to know if El Chapo secretly invested in the company and the money he put in was laundered.
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But EB-5 has been the subject of increasing scrutiny since investigators uncovered numerous cases of fraud, discovered individuals with possible ties to Chinese and Iranian intelligence using fake documents and learned that international fugitives who have laundered money had infiltrated the program.
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But it acquired a certain interest for a wider audience than the local graffiti artists when Mr. Manafort was indicted on charges that he had laundered more than $22013 million through overseas shell companies during a decades-long career as a lobbyist.
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The Justice Department also has filed numerous lawsuits to seize $1.7 billion in assets including jewelry, real estate and Hollywood movie rights, that it says Mr. Najib's family members and associates acquired with money from the fund and laundered through American financial institutions.
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The clash of views took place at a pretrial hearing Wednesday in federal court in Washington, where Manafort is scheduled to go to trial later this month over charges that he failed to register as a foreign agent, laundered money and obstructed justice.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former minister of mines in Guinea pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges that he laundered $8.5 million in bribes he received from a Chinese conglomerate to help it secure mining rights in the West African country.
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This month, journalists in a dozen countries uncovered how officials in Azerbaijan had laundered billions of dollars through companies in Britain with accounts at a Danish bank in Estonia, for the benefit of people in Germany, France, Iran, Kazakhstan, Britain and elsewhere.
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Cardi's got her face covered by a blinged-out mask and her boobs out in a see-through dress, an easy to make sure all eyes stayed on her as she strolled into the Laundered Works Corp show Thursday in support of Offset.
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Manafort turned himself in to the FBI after the charges, which include conspiracy against the U.S. and using the laundered money to buy goods in the country — charges that relate to his work on behalf of a Russian-backed political party in Ukraine.
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PARIS — In a surprise verdict, a French tribunal of judges cleared Guy Wildenstein — the patriarch of an international art-dealing dynasty — of charges that he laundered money by shielding a precious collection in a maze of foreign trusts to avoid inheritance taxes.
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Giuliani claimed Monday that Hunter Biden received millions of dollars in laundered money, and has accused Joe Biden of political corruption for pressuring Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who reportedly oversaw a probe into the owner of that gas company, Burisma Holdings.
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But hey: Maybe someone can just turn the place into a museum about how it wound up in the hands of a supposedly dead Ukrainian grifter who allegedly laundered a shit ton of dirty money, now that it needs a new owner.
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Sen. Mark Warner (VA), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, wants former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon to speak with federal investigators about Bannon's recent claim that the president and some of his close advisers may have laundered money.
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The DOJ alleged the misappropriated funds - much of which were the proceeds of the Goldman-managed bond sales - were laundered through shell companies with bank accounts in Singapore, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the U.S., then distributed to people who are known to be close to Najib.
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The 2012 settlement detailed how Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel and Colombia's Norte del Valle cartel laundered $881 million through HSBC and a Mexican unit and how the bank violated U.S. sanctions laws by doing business with customers in Iran, Libya, Sudan, Burma and Cuba.
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Estonia's police Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) said that besides more than $6 billion laundered via Estonian banks in schemes discovered by national financial inspection agencies, a further unreported 7.3 billion euros was channelled via Estonian banks through the sale of Russian stocks and bonds.
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"There is no excuse for the UK to turn a blind eye as President (Vladimir) Putin's kleptocrats and human rights abusers use money laundered through London to corrupt our friends, weaken our alliances, and erode faith in our institutions," said committee chairman Tom Tugendhat.
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Still, Mr. Cunha, who is thought to retain considerable political sway, is hoping to keep his seat despite facing a trial over claims that he pocketed colossal bribes, laundered the gains through an evangelical megachurch and squirreled away millions of dollars in Swiss accounts.
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On Monday, federal prosecutors linked the house to something more than a local annoyance: It was, they charged, a mechanism through which Paul Manafort, the president's former campaign chairman, laundered millions in unreported income from lobbying work on behalf of pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine.
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An investigation by the World Anti-Doping Agency, known as the McLaren Report, confirmed a clever, brazen doping scheme at the Sochi Olympics: Tainted urine samples were slipped through a so-called mouse hole in the drug lab to be laundered like drug money.
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It seems unlikely that reforming the Swiss banking sector will diminish the widespread practice of tax evasion, because wealthy clients can simply transfer their money to a more lax jurisdiction or convert their cash to art or gold or some other easily laundered asset.
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Civil suits filed in Los Angeles and New York allege that a former mayor of the largest city in Kazakhstan and several of his family members laundered millions in stolen public funds, investing some of it in real estate, including units in Trump SoHo.
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Flynn, who has 22016,000 Twitter followers, has used the platform to retweet accusations that Clinton is involved with child sex trafficking and has "secretly waged war" on the Catholic Church, as well as charges that Obama is a "jihadi" who "laundered" money for Muslim terrorists.
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It could be observed also that Ms. Nonoo was lovely to talk to — that she was as warm and bright as sunshine winking off a private pond, and that words delivered in her crisp accent piled up like stacks of freshly laundered percale pillowcases.
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In his work, he effectively laundered dirt provided to him by Donald Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, producing articles that directly led to a whistleblower report alleging that Trump, based on Solomon's false assertions, demanded the Ukrainian government investigate the Bidens or risk losing military aid.
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In the 37-page indictment in Virginia, prosecutors describe a "scheme" in which the two longtime business partners allegedly laundered $30 million, failed to pay taxes for almost 10 years and used real estate they owned to fraudulently secure more than $20 million in loans.
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"It was kind of surreal to find out that my suitcase and all my clothes were gone," said Stenson, who had a pile of dirty clothes that the burglars left behind that he laundered before the second round so he would have something to wear.
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Though 377 Union Street is among the most expensive purchases Manafort made with allegedly laundered money — and as such may be seized by the federal government in the coming weeks — the indictment against him indicates that he also splurged at an unnamed Florida art gallery.
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Mueller's painstakingly detailed 31-page indictment of Manafort and former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates alleges that the two men concealed their ties to the government of Ukraine, kept huge amounts of money in offshore shelters, and laundered more than $18 million since 2006.
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The "first in, first out" principle has previously been applied to bankruptcies, but the Cambridge boffins posit that it could also apply to the blockchain, offering a superior way to determine what's been stolen, laundered, or otherwise corrupted, and potentially return those bitcoins to their rightful owners.
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Even if bitcoin isn't exactly a currency, it still has "tangible value" and can be laundered like anything else, David Yermack, chair of the finance department at the New York University Stern School of Business, where he teaches the course "Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies," said in July.
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Schiff said he wants to know why the materials appeared to be "laundered" through Nunes if they originated at the White House and expressed "deep concern" in a letter to the White House that the materials were being made the same day the Times story broke.
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The scandal facing Danske Bank has intensified this month after Denmark's business minister said a newspaper report that Danske laundered up to $8.3 billion — more than twice the amount previously reported — through its Estonian branch could prompt the country's financial watchdog to open a new investigation.
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Indeed, this show's light style might have benefited from a touch more anger; much of the money in question is laundered to evade tax, with the result that public services are short of funds and honest people find more of their wages are taken by the government.
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Krista's body has not been found, but according to the complaint, which was also obtained by The Point/Plover Metro Wire, a K9 unit detected human remains in the couple's bedroom, in a bathroom drain, in Sypher's truck and on laundered clothing in the washing machine.
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He was due for release on parole in 2007, but he was held pending a decision on a French extradition request -- a Paris court had convicted Noriega in absentia in 1999 on charges that he had laundered $2.8 million in drug money by buying property in France.
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CBA was sued this month by financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC which alleges that criminals and terror financiers laundered millions of dollars through CBA accounts - the first lawsuit of it kind against a major Australian bank and exposing CBA to a fine potentially amounting to billions of dollars.
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Manafort turned himself in to the FBI after the charges came to light which include conspiracy against the U.S. and using the laundered money to buy goods in the country — charges that relate to his work on behalf of a Russian-backed political party in Ukraine.
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Watch him instantly solve the problem posed by Mike, who has announced that he is going to continue stealing the ID badges of employees of Madrigal Electromotive — which is paying him laundered money — and then roll through the company's terminals and point out safety and protocol violations.
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Her son Riza Aziz, Mr. Najib's stepson, used money taken from the Malaysian fund to produce movies, including "The Wolf of Wall Street," according to the United States Department of Justice, which is seeking to recover $1.7 billion it says was laundered through American financial institutions.
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But even in its unused state, the obscure physics of the market pumped and laundered through it the kind of abstract "value" you can monitor on real estate sites like Trulia and Zillow, which tracked a steady upward trend for the property over the last five years.
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Per the BBC, Europol believes that as much as $5.6 billion's worth (four billion pounds) of European criminal proceeds are being laundered through cryptocurrencies, though the same lack of transparency that enables such laundering under the radar stymies anything resembling an accurate tally of the scale of the problem.
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The indictment against Manfort and Gates — signed solely by Mueller — alleges that they worked from 2006 to 2015 as unregistered agents for the Ukrainian government and former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, and laundered millions of dollars that they earned in order to hide the profits from US authorities.
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MANILA (Reuters) - More than three months have passed since $217 million was stolen in a brazen cyber-heist from Bangladesh's central bank and sent to Manila – yet authorities in the Philippines appear no closer to nabbing those who laundered most of the money through a bank and casinos here.
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Ferrer's plea deal requires him to take "all steps within his power" to permanently shut down Backpage, to forfeit all the company's assets and property, to testify that Backpage laundered money and encouraged prostitution-related ads, and to plead guilty to state-level charges in Texas and California.
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Unknown cyber criminals tried to steal nearly $1 billion from Bangladesh Bank's account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in February, and succeeded in transferring $81 million to four accounts at Manila's Rizal Commercial Banking Corp , which was then laundered through the city's casinos, according to investigators.
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Project Cassandra had some remarkable achievements, including the Lebanese-Canadian Bank investigation, which shut down the bank and led to the 2011 indictment of Hezbollah kingpin Ayman Joumaa, a Lebanese-Colombian dual national who laundered money for Mexican and Colombian cartels to the tune of $200 million a month.
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Danske Bank said it had taken action against former and current staff, but in Denmark, which regularly features in surveys as one of the world's least corrupt countries, politicians were critical of it for not revealing how much money may have been laundered or who held legal responsibility.
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"Ukrainian NGO Anticorruption Action Centre (AntAC) petitioned the United States Justice Department on behalf of Ukrainian civil society to dedicate the nearly $85033 million in forfeited and seized assets allegedly laundered by former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, to creating an anti-corruption training facility," a 2015 foundation document stated.
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As NBC reported, Giuliani laundered conspiracies against former U.S. ambassador Marie Yovanovitch—set to testify at the impeachment hearings later this week—through Giuliani's favorite self-proclaimed journalist, The Hill's John Solomon, who published claims that Yovanovitch and George Soros were "part of a massive conspiracy to take down" Manafort.
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" According to Dev Kar, chief economist emeritus at Global Financial Integrity, an organization that monitors illicit financial flows around the world, India is particularly vulnerable because "there is simply no way of telling how much foreign direct investment into the country is legitimate and how much of it is laundered.
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Rather, it looks at the Department of Justice's 2012 settlement with HSBC, the British banking behemoth, after accusations that it laundered nearly $900 million for drug traffickers and processed transactions on behalf of Cuba, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Myanmar, or Burma, when those countries were subject to United States sanctions.
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A Manhattan pied-à-terre has long been a globally recognized sign of wealth and status — especially in recent years, as billionaires the world over have come to see a Manhattan condo, even one rarely visited, as a vessel for laundered wealth or a hedge against political upheaval at home.
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Be assured, your money will be hanging out it with some of society's most distinguished semi-laundered funds in a massive cash mask ball to beat them all—a report by KPMG in 553 estimated that a full 45 percent of the world's offshore companies is in the British Virgin Islands.
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Related: The Year Latin Americans Got Angry About Corruption Amid the claims of corruption within the current government, Nasheed says he received reliable information that $1 billion in cash arrived to the Maldives in a jet last year, before being laundered through government and commercial bank accounts, and then leaving again.
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"The DOJ has, in effect, come to the laughable conclusion that a mere bank manager stole $81 million from the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Bangladesh, and laundered it through the Philippine banking system and the casino complex, all by her lonesome self," he said in a mobile text message to reporters.
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Remember, the allegation by Devin Nunes&apos intelligence committee was, that but for, there would be no FISA warrant, there would no spying on the Trump team but for Hillary Clinton&aposs dossier that was laundered in the FBI and DOJ through Bruce Ohr, through the State Department, through Blumenthal, you name it.
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Mueller has alleged a years-long scheme of astonishing scope: that Manafort first laundered $30 million from a web of undeclared offshore accounts into the US without paying taxes on it, and then (after the Ukrainian money stopped coming in) defrauded several US banks to get more than $20 million in loans.
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Preet Bharara, the former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, brought the case against Prevezon Holdings years ago as an attempt to bring Russian interests to court for part of an alleged $230 million tax fraud — some of which, his office alleged, was laundered through property purchased in New York.
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In a statement released on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the actor said DiCaprio is fully cooperating with a federal investigation into whether the star's 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street was partially funded with laundered money, and whether the actor's eponymous foundation received donations that were taken from those embezzled funds.
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Chris Christie (R) and an attorney who represents President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE, from tens of millions of dollars in laundered funds.
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As a result, the volume of cryptocurrency obtained from illegal activity and laundered through Europe between 2013 and 2016 was five times as much as the amount that went through North America, according to a study published in January by the analytics firm Elliptic and the Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance.
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To avoid taxes, according to the indictment, he set up offshore bank accounts and laundered money through real estate and luxury goods — a common practice that enriches plutocrats while exacerbating housing crises in cities like New York and London by pumping billions of dollars of looted wealth into a tight real estate market.
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At the heart of the government's case against Paul Manafort are allegations that President Donald Trump's former campaign boss laundered tens of millions of dollars in foreign payments and used this "hidden overseas wealth to enjoy a lavish lifestyle in the United States, without paying taxes on that income," according to the indictment.
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In a statement, the Department of Justice said officials at 1MDB, their relatives and other associates diverted more than $21 billion from the state funds and laundered it through complex transactions and shell companies with bank accounts in Singapore, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the U.S. The assets the DOJ said were purchased with the laundered funds included high-end real estate and hotels in New York and Los Angeles, a $21 million jet aircraft, artwork by Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet, a stake in EMI Music publishing rights and production of the 22013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street," which ironically was not only about a corrupt stockbroker, but also was banned from playing in Malaysia for being too risqué.
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The 2013 movie "The Wolf of Wall Street" and an interest in the rights of EMI Music Publishing are among the targets of civil lawsuits that are filled with allegations that Malaysian officials, their relatives and associates laundered the fund's money and hid it in property, artwork and luxury goods in the United States.
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But there is an enormous loophole around this promise: Cattle are frequently "laundered" in the supply chain, often born on a farm where the forest was illegally cleared, and fattened on another ranch recently formed by a fire, before being sold to a final ranch that abides by Brazilian law and international environmental conventions.
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Whereas the domestic provision looks rearward -- focusing on the source of the money being laundered, in other words, the proceeds of illegal activity (otherwise known as "dirty money") -- the international one looks forward, making it an offense to use money derived from any source, legal or illegal, to promote a specified crime in the future.
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Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates both pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges that they failed to disclose they were lobbying for pro-Russia former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich between 2006 and 2015 and laundered tens of millions of dollars by funneling the money through dozens of companies, partnerships and bank accounts.
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" Marshall Billingslea, an assistant secretary at Treasury, visited Riga last month to again press officials to curtail Latvia's shady nonresident banks and assure them that Washington has evidence that ABLV not only laundered dirty money but "used bribery to influence Latvian officials when challenging enforcement actions and perceived threats to their high-risk business.
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In a separate case last week, dozens of defendants were sentenced for their role in a "hundreds of millions" of dollars scam in both the US and India to pose as tax or immigration officials, then coerce innocent people into giving them cash, gift cards, or preloaded debit cards the scammers laundered back into money orders.
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His attorney, Kevin Downing, and a public defender representing Rick Gates both entered not guilty pleas to all charges in the indictments, which charged the two men with conspiracy against the U.S., acting as unregistered agents of "foreign principals," and several other financial crimes, alleging that they laundered millions of dollars earned from their political work in Ukraine.
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As banks across the world draw scrutiny for allowing billions of laundered dollars to flow through their accounts from Russia, this untold chapter of Prevezon's history reveals just how easy it was for Russian individuals to funnel money into the US through shady real estate deals, and how little one major Western bank did to stop it.
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Ellis said he didn't see how the photos relate to the case being made against Manafort, who is facing 18 counts of bank and tax fraud, including allegations that he laundered $30 million from work on behalf of pro-Russia Ukrainian politicians and that he hid money overseas in unreported foreign accounts to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
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Najib, in some of his most extensive comments yet on the 1MDB scandal, told Reuters last week that he did not know if hundreds of millions of dollars that moved through his personal account was from 1MDB, and if money from the fund was eventually laundered to acquire assets globally, including yachts, paintings, gems and prime real estate.
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There is a similar shot of another premium floater on the 66th floor of the Trump Ocean Club in Panama City; the view here is over-the-shoulder and down on a great number of dark, empty apartments, the results of a real estate bubble driven by drug money from Colombia and Venezuela laundered through property in Panama.
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Then in 2016, Onyema and an associate allegedly used fake letters of credit and supporting documents to get banks to transfer more than $20 million to Atlanta-based bank accounts that he controlled, then "allegedly laundered over $16 million of the proceeds of the fraud by transferring it to other accounts," the US attorney's office says.
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They said the enterprise: •Manipulated securities markets •Created and manipulated fake companies •Artificially pumped up stock prices with scam emails •Ran online casinos •Operated an illegal Bitcoin exchange •Laundered money through at least 75 shell companies and accounts around the world Prosecutors described a classic "pump and dump" operation, which they said often ran through legitimate financial accounts in Aaron's name.
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This past July, in a speech in Warsaw that was celebrated by the alt-right, President Trump echoed a line from the story — a story written by a "brown-sounding" amanuensis, all but line-edited by a white nationalist, laundered for racism by Breitbart's editors, and supervised by the man who would in short order become the president's chief strategist.
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While no one has been injured, anxieties and fears are running high amid a charged national debate over accepting Muslim refugees in the U.S. • The Justice Department has led an effort to recover assets that it says were stolen by foreign officials — dictators, politicians and governing elites — and laundered in the U.S. Here are some of the cases it is pursuing.
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It goes roughly like this: So what happened, it seems, is that a conspiratorial interpretation of texts between two FBI employees, one entirely unfounded in the actual evidence, got laundered from the fringe right-wing media to the right-wing mainstream through Fox News personalities — and eventually reached up to a member of Congress and the president of the United States.
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READ: The full indictment charging Paul Manafort with conspiracy against the U.S. For Manafort's efforts over nearly a decade, he was paid tens of millions of dollars, which he and his partner Rick Gates — who was also charged on Monday — then laundered through secret offshore bank accounts in Cyprus, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, and Seychelles, according to the indictment signed by Mueller.
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Some of the questions Penn had submitted were pointed, if open-ended: whether his products "contribute to the destruction of mankind," how he justified the use of violence, whether he regarded his business as a "cartel," whether the Mexican government and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration were corrupt, how he laundered his money, what he thought of the movement to legalize drugs.
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Today's alt-right — and I use this term broadly, ranging from Richard Spencer and those even further to his right, to "mainstream" politicians, like the Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama and Representative Steve King of Iowa, who espouse a slightly laundered version of Spencer's nationalist, traditionalist xenophobia — is nowhere near as broad or pervasive as the Klan was then.
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She remembered how yesterday, when Signora Petricci had laid out on the reception desk the necessary forms for signing, her lace-trimmed cuff had been impeccably laundered and pressed, brilliantly white against her dark skin; links in a gold chain had stirred and glinted with her wrist's authoritative movement, in a way that seemed to have some meaning for Cecilia, to send some message.
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But sharing the video and tacitly accepting Rogan's endorsement feels like an unforced error, or at least a risk Sanders didn't need to take: He's opened himself up to criticism from parts of his base who care about social justice, marginalized people, and stand against the people and ideas Rogan has allowed to be laundered on his show, without really standing to gain anything.
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"Tonight we saw Elizabeth Warren doing what she does best: Standing up for working families against a billionaire who believes elections can be bought, and who thinks his abusive behavior towards people of color, Muslims, and women can be laundered with nine-figure ad blitz," Stamp said in a statement as aides and allies cheered on Twitter and during cable news appearances after the debate.
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The U.S. Department of Justice said officials at 1MDB, their relatives and other associates diverted more than $3.5 billion in total from the state fund and laundered it through complex transactions and shell companies with bank accounts in Singapore, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the U.S. Media reports citing unnamed sources said the complaints' 32 references to "Malaysian Official 1," who allegedly received hundreds of millions from 1MDB, were to Najib.
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North Korea More recently, in June and August of this year, the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia filed three separate civil forfeiture actions in Washington to recover millions of dollars that were alleged to have been laundered through shell companies and used to finance North Korea's development of weapons of mass destruction and its ballistic missile program in violation of international and US sanctions.
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The elder Flynn was fired in February after a disclosure that he had lied to Vice President Mike Pence about Flynn's contacts with Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the U.S. NBC News reported that Mueller's team plans to speak to multiple witness in coming days to get more details about Flynn's lobbying work, with an eye toward determining if he laundered money, or lied to federal authorities about his contacts overseas.
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In a pair of indictments, the special counsel, Robert Mueller, details how Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump's former campaign chairman, and Mr. Manafort's business partner, Rick Gates, earned millions of dollars from Ukrainian interests tied to Moscow, hid that money from the Internal Revenue Service, lied to the Justice Department about their ties to those interests and laundered millions of dollars for their own profit and to fund Ukraine's efforts to lobby American lawmakers.
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Background Reading: Ross on Trump's corruption, three theories of the president's Russia ties and removing Trump from office David on Trump's impeachable offenses and the possibility that Trump's businesses laundered Russian money Michelle on Michael Cohen's guilty plea and Democrats investigating Trump Susan Hennessey on Trump's potential witness tampering (Lawfare, with Quinta Jurecic) I've been an Op-Ed columnist since 2009, and I write about politics, religion, pop culture, sociology and the places where they all intersect.
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In July, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged that funds laundered from 1MDB were used to purchase assets including high-end real estate and hotels in New York and Los Angeles, a $35 million jet aircraft, artwork by Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet, a stake in EMI Music publishing rights and production of the 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street," which ironically was not only about a corrupt stockbroker, but also was banned from playing in Malaysia for being too risqué.
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Putin and his cronies have stolen hundreds of billions of dollars from the Russian people and laundered their ill-gotten wealth through anonymous shell companies that they use to secretly invest in high-end properties located mainly in the U.S. and the U.K. Moreover, Russian oligarchs spend some of this fortune undermining democracies by enriching corruptible elites, donating to illiberal populists, fostering energy dependence, funding networks of pro-Kremlin media outlets and non-governmental organizations, and empowering fringe movements such as paramilitaries.
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" SPECIAL COUNSEL: The pesky Special Counsel follows your token around the oval board in an attempt to prove obstruction of justice and collusion, but in doing so also stumbles upon a few hundred other crimes, including a nonfiction book proposal from you titled "If I Laundered Money Internationally for Years and That, Along With a Deeply Warped and Power-Hungry Psyche Forged by a Horrible Father — I Mean, Really Bad, Just, Like, the Worst, Aside From Me — Made Me Run for President.
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Along the way he had, among other endeavors, simultaneously fed the American opioid epidemic; built his own base operations in Somalia, protected by an armed militia; run gold and timber extraction operations in a half-dozen African countries; laundered millions of dollars through Hong Kong; plotted a coup in the Seychelles (later abandoned); bought off law enforcement in the Philippines, where he was based; trafficked methamphetamine out of North Korea; and overseen a team of engineers building missile guidance systems for Iran and drones for drug delivery.
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In Brooklyn federal court Tuesday, a gaunt Bronfman pleaded not guilty to allegations she conspired with Raniere to steal email passwords from his "perceived enemies," racked up charges on the credit card of his dead ex-girlfriend and laundered money to help a non-citizen fraudulently gain entry to the US. Bronfman was part of an "inner circle" of loyalists who "committed a broad range of serious crimes from identity theft and obstruction of justice to sex trafficking, all to promote and protect Raniere and NXIVM," U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said in a statement.
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Washkuhn's testimony could be instrumental to attorneys working for Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's special counsel office as they seek to prove that the former Trump aide laundered millions of dollars through bank accounts based in Cyprus to fund lavish spending habits in the U.S. The money, they allege, was made working for pro-Russia political parties in Ukraine before Russia's annexation of Crimea.
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