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    • Sunday, 28 May, 2023
      Casey Michel
      Now the UK is finally tackling ‘Londongrad’, it’s time the US upped its game

      Spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Westminster is at long last stemming the flows of illicit wealth into Britain’s capital

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Clamping down on Russia’s sanctions evasion

      Western leaders need to get tougher on offshore secrecy jurisdictions

    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
      Lebanon
      France issues arrest warrant for Lebanon central bank chief

      Riad Salameh failed to appear before Paris investigators over corruption and money-laundering

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      Jemima Kelly
      Using crypto for crime is not a bug — it’s an industry feature

      Despite last year’s market downturn, it was a record period for crypto-based illicit transactions

    • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
      InterviewPanama
      Panama expects to escape watchdog’s money laundering ‘grey list’ this year

      Central American nation has been under international intense pressure to clean up financial system

    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Russia
      Fugitive businessman wanted in the US emerges in Russia

      Artem Uss escaped from Italian detention before he could be extradited to America

    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Mikhail Fridman
      UK scales back probe into Mikhail Fridman four months after raid in London

      National Crime Agency drops two of three lines of inquiry against sanctions-hit Russian billionaire after his arrest in December

    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      UK crime
      Britain risks becoming ‘haven for fraudsters’, MPs warn

      Home Office slammed as ‘sluggish and outmanoeuvred’ on launch of new economic crime plan

    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      Germany to ‘follow the money’ with new financial crime agency

      Berlin has been dogged by criticism following the collapse of Wirecard

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Lebanon’s central bank chief in court to face money-laundering allegations

      Riad Salameh for the first time appears in front of European investigators probing the accusations

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Financial fraud
      Exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui arrested on US fraud charges

      Prosecutors allege he ‘led a complex conspiracy’ to bilk online followers out of more than $1bn

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      White collar crime
      Small UK companies set to be excluded from anti-fraud legislation

      MPs and anti-corruption campaigners criticise plans to limit scope of new ‘failure to prevent’ offence

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      Vladimir Putin
      Swiss prosecutors charge four bankers with helping to hide Putin’s millions

      Employees of Gazprombank’s subsidiary accused of helping Kremlin-connected figure open accounts

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      African economy
      South Africa and Nigeria put on anti-money laundering ‘grey list’

      Global watchdog says Africa’s two biggest economies need to do more to fight financial crime

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      Yevgeny Prigozhin
      Russian warlord passed UK money laundering checks with mother’s utility bill

      Law firm relied on gas invoice when scrutinising Wagner group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin as prospective client

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Barclays PLC
      Barclays probed by UK regulator over anti-money laundering systems

      FCA review is latest problem for lender that has struggled with compliance missteps in recent years

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      Tax evasion and avoidance
      Thousands of offshore companies miss UK property register deadline

      List set up to tackle estimated £100bn of illicit financing often channelled through British real estate

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      News in-depthGambling industry
      Fall of Asia’s gambling kingpin augurs change for Macau industry

      Alvin Chau’s jailing comes as Beijing cracks down on money laundering and capital flight

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      White collar crime
      UK to make ‘failure to prevent fraud’ a criminal offence

      Government will target law firms and accountants in new bill

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      Cryptocurrencies
      Crypto lender Nexo under investigation in Bulgaria

      Sofia prosecutor’s office says it is probing possible money laundering and other criminal offences

    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
      Danske Bank AS
      Danske Bank to pay $2bn penalty for defrauding US banks

      Denmark’s largest lender pleads guilty to resolve one of the biggest money-laundering scandals in years

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Santander UK PLC
      Santander UK fined £108mn for anti-money laundering failures

      Bank’s poor management created ‘prolonged and severe risk’ of financial crime, says regulator

    • Saturday, 3 December, 2022
      UK crime
      UK crime agency arrests wealthy Russian businessman at London home

      58-year-old man and two others held by NCA’s anti-kleptocracy unit

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The ECJ’s gift to oligarchs under sanctions

      A ruling that limits access to corporate registries is a blow in the fight against Putin

    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Access to EU public registers ends: ‘We are going back to era of corporate secrecy’

      Campaigners say invalidation of member states’ databases will hinder efforts to tackle abuse of ownership rules

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