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Anti-corruption presidential candidate assassinated in Ecuador

Read here: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/09/ecuador-candidate-assassinated-00110598

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Televisa’s $95 Million FIFA Bribery Settlement Gets Final Nod

Read here: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/televisas-95-million-fifa-bribery-settlement-gets-final-nod

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Laundry company owners guilty of trafficking migrants, minors for labor

Read here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/11/cleaning-company-virginia-labor-trafficking/

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Stolen Amazon: The Roots of Environmental Crime in the Tri-Border Regions

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/investigations/stolen-amazon-roots-environmental-crime-tri-border-regions/ Link to report: https://es.insightcrime.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/InsightCrime-Tri-Border-EN-1.pdf

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Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) requests data from banks on account closures

Read here: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/we-request-data-banks-account-closures

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Russian Court Freezes $36 Million in Goldman Sachs’s Assets

Read here: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/russian-court-freezes-36-million-061116293.html

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UK government to build cases to prosecute rogue immigration lawyers: Crooked lawyers coaching illegal migrants to lie

Read here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-build-cases-to-prosecute-rogue-immigration-lawyers

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Canada: Charges laid in ‘Project Carlos’, multi-million dollar drug trafficking investigation

Read here: https://alert-ab.ca/update-charges-laid-in-project-carlos/

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Three men sentenced for raft of firearms, drugs and money laundering offences

Read here: https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/operation-venetic-three-men-sentenced-for-raft-of-firearms-drugs-and-money-laundering-offences

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Venezuela’s Corrupt Officials Key to Human Trafficking Networks

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/corrupt-officials-key-to-trafficking-networks-in-venezuela/

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IMF tells Uganda to toughen war against money laundering

Read here: https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/imf-tells-uganda-to-toughen-war-against-money-laundering-4329778

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Pakistan Sentences Former Prime Minister Imran Khan for Graft

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/17911-pakistan-sentences-former-prime-minister-imran-khan-for-graft

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Largest ever UK action targets Russia’s access to foreign military supplies

Read here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/largest-ever-uk-action-targets-putins-access-to-foreign-military-supplies

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Former Leader of “Clan Del Golfo” Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Operating a Continuing Criminal Enterprise and Related Charges

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/former-leader-clan-del-golfo-drug-trafficking-organization-sentenced-45-years-prison

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Hong Kong cosmetics saleswoman arrested over alleged money laundering involving HK$900 million in crime proceeds

Read here: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3230420/hong-kong-cosmetics-saleswoman-arrested-over-alleged-money-laundering-involving-hk900-million-crime

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How the Ecuador assassination leads back to UK drug gangs

Read here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/10/fernando-villaviciencio-gangs-drugs-cocaine-uk-albania/

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Gardai believe Chinese nationals are laundering money for Irish drug gangs

Read here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gardai-believe-chinese-nationals-are-laundering-money-for-irish-drug-gangs-kwxnbnjfh

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Spanish lottery ticket seller faces charges of defrauding winner of €4.7m

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/07/spanish-lottery-ticket-seller-faces-jail-on-charges-of-defrauding-winner-of-47m

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Spanish Police Arrest 3 Behind Payment Card Fraud

Read here: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/spanish-police-arrest-3-behind-payment-card-fraud-a-22750

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Fondation Beyeler Clerk Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Stealing Over $1 Million at Ticket Counter

Read here: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sticky-fingered-fondation-beyler-clerk-sentenced-to-more-than-three-years-in-prison-1234676413/

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Jewelry store owner pleads to ignoring anti-money-laundering requirement

Read here: https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2023/08/07/sahibzada-pleads-guilty-money-laundering-form.html

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How money laundering for the cartels actually works, according to a former undercover agent

Read here: https://news.yahoo.com/money-laundering-cartels-actually-works-174445771.html

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Comer Releases Third Bank Memo Detailing Payments to the Bidens from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine

Read here: https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-releases-third-bank-memo-detailing-payments-to-the-bidens-from-russia-kazakhstan-and-ukraine%EF%BF%BC/

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Panama Papers law firm outsourced offshore deals to accountant in India, new reporting shows

Read here: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/panama-papers-law-firm-outsourced-offshore-deals-to-accountant-in-india-new-reporting-shows/

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American Bar Association (ABA) strengthens rule on duty of lawyers to review clients

Read here: https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2023/08/aba-strengthens-rules-lawyers-review/

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Review found Afghan central bank lacks independence from Taliban

Read here: https://news.yahoo.com/review-found-afghan-central-bank-174723825.html

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UAE-based company complies with deferred prosecution agreement

Read here: https://www.europeansanctions.com/2023/08/uae-based-company-complies-with-deferred-prosecution-agreement/

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Fund Administrator Charged For Missing Red Flags

Read here: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-148

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Ex-FBI counterintelligence chief in talks to plead guilty over work he did for Russian oligarch

Read here: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/07/politics/charles-mcgonigal-new-york/index.html

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Man who delivered ‘wages’ to gangland figures jailed for four years and eight months

Read here: https://www.copfs.gov.uk/about-copfs/news/23-08-man-who-delivered-wages-to-gangland-figures-jailed-for-four-years-and-eight-months/

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Siemens cooperating with Austrian authorities in corruption probe

Read here: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/siemens-cooperating-austrian-authorities-corruption-064354615.html

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Palantir lobbied UK disabilities minister to use software to tackle benefits fraud

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/08/palantir-lobbied-uk-disabilities-minister-software-benefits-fraud

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Co-founder’s suicide delays prostitution trial of Backpage executives

Read here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/jim-larkin-backpage-prostitution-trial-b2389189.html

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Unaoil Bribery Sentencing Documents Will Remain Under Seal

Read here: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/unaoil-bribery-sentencing-documents-will-remain-under-seal

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Moammar Gadhafi stashed billions in Canadian bank accounts, former diplomat says

Read here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-libya-moammar-gadhafi-canadian-bank-accounts/

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The journey of drug mules from Peru to Spain: ‘Remember that I can have your family killed’

Read here: https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-08-07/the-journey-of-drug-mules-from-peru-to-spain-remember-that-i-can-have-your-family-killed.html

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Ukraine creates database of art linked to sanctions-hit Russians

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/08/ukraine-creates-database-of-art-linked-to-sanctions-hit-russians

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Ex-UBS Banker Fights and Wins Against US Sanctions

Read here: https://www.finews.com/news/english-news/58658-us-russia-sanctions-list-removed-elena-titova

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OCG that used fake company as front for massive cocaine smuggling are jailed

Read here: https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/operation-venetic-ocg-that-used-fake-company-as-front-for-massive-cocaine-smuggling-are-jailed

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