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Money laundering

  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Financial fraud
    Chinese businessman Guo Wengui convicted of fraud in US court

    Self-exiled Communist party critic and associate of Steve Bannon fleeced his online followers, prosecutors said

    A courtroom sketch of Guo Wengui in Manhattan federal court
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Vatican
    Senior Vatican cleric accused of lying to court in London lawsuit

    Archbishop appeared as part of proceedings brought by financier found guilty of embezzlement

    Venezuelan archbishop Edgar Robinson Peña Parra in Vatican city, Rome
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    A Beautiful Chinese Launderette

    Plotting the Fentanyl money flows

  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    Citigroup Inc
    Citi was money launderers’ favourite bank, US law enforcement officials say

    Alleged drug traffickers fed $36,000 into cash machines, indictment claims

  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    Turkey
    Turkey removed from money laundering ‘grey list’

    FATF decision set to give international investors more confidence about country’s assets

    Picture of a hand counting Turkish lira notes
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    39 min
    Chinese brokers launder hundreds of millions for global crime groups | FT Film

    The FT investigates links between Chinese underground banking and global crime cartels

    FT Film: dirty money, cartels and underground banks
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    FT Investigations
    The new money laundering network fuelling the fentanyl crisis

    US officials say Chinese organised crime groups are laundering much of the cash accumulated by Mexican drugs cartels

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    HSBC Holdings PLC
    Swiss regulator finds HSBC violated money laundering rules

    Finma bans bank’s Swiss subsidiary from taking on prominent public figures as clients

    The Swiss offices of HSBC Private Bank in Geneva
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Singapore
    Singapore secures last conviction in $2bn money laundering case

    Tenth Chinese national pleads guilty in scandal that put spotlight on financial hub’s embrace of foreign wealth

    Wang Dehai
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    British-Chinese bitcoin money launderer jailed for over 6 years

    UK case centres on one of the biggest bitcoin hauls by a law enforcement agency in the world

    Jian Wen
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Labour to outline clampdown on UK ‘dirty money’

    ‘Fresh approach’ needed, party says as it announces measures to tackle kleptocracy and corruption

    Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy
  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    How to resolve the debanking debate

    Tighter rules tend to mean louder protests when those affected feel hard done by

  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Chinese fraud victims seek return of £3bn in bitcoin seized in UK

    Group calls for help from Beijing to recover funds held by London police since money laundering investigation

    A montage with pictures of the two women
  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    Swiss private banker charged with stealing dirty money from own client

    Case is latest in a series of scandals exposing the enduring legacy of secrecy in Swiss banking

    Swiss Federal Criminal Court building in Bellinzona, Switzerland
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    Sam Bankman-Fried
    FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud

    US court’s judgment caps the dramatic downfall of one of crypto’s most prominent stars

    Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX
  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
    Accused crypto laundering mastermind dreamt of being a Buddhist goddess

    Zhimin Qian’s spectre loomed over the trial of her ‘carer and assistant’ Jian Wen for money laundering

    A montage of a photo of Zhimin Qian and a bitcoin on a red and black background
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    FT Magazine
    The mystery of the Hampstead mansion and the £1.4bn bitcoin haul

    What were two Chinese women doing in a rented mansion in London with an astronomical amount of cryptocurrency?

  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
    Signa Holding
    Munich prosecutor opens money laundering probe into Signa

    Preliminary investigation initiated into Bavarian developments by collapsed luxury property group

    Hoardings with the Signa logo
  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    Bet365 Group Ltd
    Bet365 faces probe by Australia’s anti-money laundering watchdog

    UK gambling company is latest in sector to be targeted for scrutiny by financial crimes unit

    The online gambling website Bet365 displayed on a smartphone
  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    Deborah Lehr
    The US art market is a sanctions black hole

    It currently provides an untraceable funding source for blacklisted individuals and entities

    Two men in dark suits stand in front of a Russian flag
  • Tuesday, 27 February, 2024
    Casey Michel
    In America, there is finally good news on the anti-money laundering front

    The Biden administration is making a serious and concerted effort to clamp down on the practice

    The sun rises behind the skyline of lower Manhattan
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    UAE removed from money laundering ‘grey list’

    Gulf state no longer subject to additional scrutiny by Paris-based Financial Action Task Force

    Dubai skyline
  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Deutsche Bank threatened with fines over flawed money laundering controls

    German financial watchdog rebukes lender and extends mandate of special monitor in latest setback

    CEO Christian Sewing
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    LexFinancials
    It is too cheap and easy to set up UK companies Premium content

    Scrutiny is a vital weapon when it comes to cracking down on opaque shell companies

    The main office of Companies House in Cardiff
  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
    Bribery and corruption
    Latvia’s ex-central bank chief sentenced to 6 years’ jail for corruption

    Ilmārs Rimšēvičs guilty of taking bribes and a fishing trip to Russia from a commercial bank

    Ilmārs Rimšēvičs
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