Yaponchik (“the little Japanese”), a Russian gangster,  , months after a sniper shot him several times in the stomach in Moscow at the end of July. of Yaponchik, otherwise known as Vyacheslav Ivankov. He was 69. Russian news agencies had said Ivankov was mediating between two rival criminal groups before he was shot from 70 metres as he left a Thai restaurant. His killer, who is still at large, fired from a car parked on the opposite side of a highway, investigators said.

Israeli authorities last week ; he is accused of trying to buy a Dutch company without revealing his role in the deal. Since emigrating from what was then the Soviet Union in 1972, Gaydamak became into one of Israel’s most high-profile businessmen. He owns sports teams, is a generous philanthropist and ran for mayor of Jerusalem last year.

Groups that keep an eye on money laundering and illicit money flows were cautiously pleased after finance ministers and central bankers from the world’s 20 major economies issued this last week: We are committed to maintain the momentum in dealing with tax havens, money laundering, proceeds of corruption, terrorist financing, and prudential standards.