UK Tackles London’s Reputation as Dirty Money Magnet
Russian oligarchs and multimillionaires face having their assets frozen in a crackdown by British authorities on dirty money flooding into London, the Financial Times reported.
Russian oligarchs and multimillionaires face having their assets frozen in a crackdown by British authorities on dirty money flooding into London, the Financial Times reported.
A Nigerian man whose email scams aimed to defraud businesspeople from Singapore to Switzerland out of millions of dollars was sentenced to five years in a US federal prison on Tuesday.
The former president of El Salvador, Antonio “Tony” Saca, was sentenced in a Salvadoran court Wednesday to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to diverting more than US$300 million in state funds to his own businesses and third parties, the Associated Press reported.
Seven New York City police officers were arrested Wednesday as part of a wide-ranging gambling and prostitution inquiry, The New York Times reported.
Police in Hyderabad, India, arrested two men Tuesday for the theft of a 4-kilogram diamond-studded gold lunchbox, saying that the men had been eating their meals out of it after failing to fence it.
Twenty traffic cops from various districts in the South African province of Limpopo were charged this week for corruption, theft and “defeating the ends of justice,” the Citizen, a South African tabloid, reports.
Koos Timmermans, the chief financial officer (CFO) of the Dutch bank ING Groep, resigned Tuesday after being blamed for failing to stop money laundering, Financial Times reported.
A South Florida doctor was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for conspiring to prescribe more than a million doses of addictive opioid-based painkillers such as Percocet and OxyContin in exchange for cash.
Two managers of a Hawaiian fishing vessel are facing civil charges after they allegedly transferred the vessel to another company to avoid paying fines for water pollution, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday.
A court in Hong Kong doled out a three-month sentence on Monday to a woman for importing a 29-ton shipment of endangered Honduran rosewood, the news portal Coconuts HK reported.