News and Blogs

SEC’s fintech wing leaves the nest, becoming stand-alone office

Read here: https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-s-fintech-wing-leaves-the-nest-becoming-stand-alone-office

Read More

Designer puppies, private jets and a Jamaican villa: Chicago rappers charged in Massachusetts with elaborate fraud scheme

Read here: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-chicago-rappers-lil-herb-fraud-charges-20201202-6j7qbbcbszebfadsnx37ihsvw4-story.html

Read More

S&P Dow Jones Indices to Launch Crypto Indexes in 2021

Read here: https://www.coindesk.com/sp-dow-jones-indices-to-launch-crypto-indexes-in-2021

Read More

Darknet Markets Face Headwinds After Year of Mixed Results

Read here: https://www.coindesk.com/darknet-market-consolidation

Read More

Pulp producers pull off $168 million Indonesia tax twist, report alleges

Read here: https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/pulp-paper-toba-pulp-lestari-april-tax-export-report/

Read More

Lebanon ex-army boss, intelligence heads charged with corruption

Read here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/2/lebanon-ex-army-boss-intelligence-heads-charged-with-corruption

Read More

The secret scheme to skim millions off central Asia’s pipeline megaproject

Read here: https://www.ft.com/content/80f25f82-5f21-4a56-b2bb-7a48e61dd9c6

Read More

Judge orders mass trial as Italy takes on ‘Ndrangheta mobsters

Read here: https://www.reuters.com/article/italy-mafia-trial/judge-orders-mass-trial-as-italy-takes-on-ndrangheta-mobsters-idUSKBN28D31W

Read More

Maryland Lawyer Charged with Defrauding Financial Institutions and Other Entities to Obtain Control over $12.5 Million of Somali Sovereign Assets

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/maryland-lawyer-charged-defrauding-financial-institutions-and-other-entities-obtain-control

Read More

“Zombie” tankers triple Venezuela’s oil exports to China despite U.S. sanctions

Read here: https://www.worldoil.com/news/2020/12/1/zombie-tankers-triple-venezuela-s-oil-exports-to-china-despite-us-sanctions

Read More

Webinar: Understanding money laundering techniques used to siphon funds from the system after a cyberattack [Recorded 17 November 2020]

Watch here: https://www.baesystems.com/en-financialservices/webinar-recording-understanding-money-laundering-techniques-used-to-siphon-funds-from-the-system

Read More

Vitol Inc. Agrees to Pay over $135 Million to Resolve Foreign Bribery Case

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/vitol-inc-agrees-pay-over-135-million-resolve-foreign-bribery-case

Read More

Vietnamese Former Trade Official Targeted for Arrest in Corruption Probe

Read here: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/arrest-12032020164406.html

Read More

United Kingdom Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2019

Read here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-strategic-export-controls-annual-report-2019

Read More

Daughter of late Uzbek president gets shot at frozen fortune

Read here: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/12/3/bbdaughter-of-late-uzbek-president-gets-shot-at-frozen-fortune

Read More

The Price of Blowing the Whistle

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/37-ccblog/ccblog/13477-the-price-of-blowing-the-whistle

Read More

DEX offers margin trading, anonymity, fast withdrawals and no KYC

Read here: https://cointelegraph.com/news/dex-offers-margin-trading-anonymity-fast-withdrawals-and-no-kyc

Read More

More gold changing hands in uncertain times

Read here: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/more-gold-changing-hands-in-uncertain-times/46193640

Read More

Six Indicted in Long Island ‘Birth Tourism,’ Money Laundering Scheme: Feds

Read here: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/six-indicted-in-long-island-birth-tourism-money-laundering-scheme-feds/2757394/

Read More

U.S. blacklists Colombian network aiding Clan del Golfo drug cartel

Read here: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/12/01/US-blacklists-Colombian-network-aiding-Clan-del-Golfo-drug-cartel/9151606879069/

Read More

Drugs in Europe: enhancing law enforcement responses to high-risk organised crime

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/drugs-in-europe-enhancing-law-enforcement-responses-to-high-risk-organised-crime

Read More

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Limits of New Standards on Assessing WMD Financing Risk

Read here: https://rusi.org/commentary/two-steps-forward-one-step-back-limits-new-standards-assessing-wmd-financing-risk

Read More

Chinese Mining Company Affected by Protests in Kyrgyzstan Has Ties to Major SOE

Read here: https://sayari.com/blog/chinese-mining-company-affected-by-protests-in-kyrgyzstan-has-ties-to-major-soe/

Read More

Australia: Plan for $10,000 cash ban ‘dead, dead and dead’

Read here: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/plan-for-10-000-cash-ban-dead-dead-and-dead-20201203-p56kck.html

Read More

Danmarks Nationalbank involuntary party in mysterious case of money laundering of three-digit billion with threads to the Italian mafia [translated from Danish]

Read here: https://politiken.dk/udland/art8019039/Danmarks-Nationalbank-ufrivillig-part-i-mystisk-sag-om-hvidvaskning-af-trecifret-milliardbeløb-med-tråde-til-den-italienske-mafia

Read More

Submarines for Rent – The Best Option for Traffickers in Colombia

Read here: https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/submarines-for-rent-colombia/

Read More

INTERPOL warns of organized crime threat to COVID-19 vaccines

Read here: https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2020/INTERPOL-warns-of-organized-crime-threat-to-COVID-19-vaccines

Read More

422 Arrested And 4,031 Money Mules Identified In Global Crackdown On Money Laundering

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/422-arrested-and-4%C2%A0031-money-mules-identified-in-global-crackdown-money-laundering

Read More

Alert issued on the illicit finance risks faced by independent schools

Read here: https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/alert-issued-on-the-illicit-finance-risks-faced-by-independent-schools

Read More

$10.8M Stolen, Developers Implicated in Alleged Smart Contract ‘Rug Pull’

Read here: https://www.coindesk.com/compounder-developers-implicated-alleged-smart-contract-rug-pull

Read More

Hong Kong’s biggest seizure of seahorses in two years recovers 75kg of endangered species, valued at HK$1 million

Read here: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3112120/hong-kongs-biggest-seizure-seahorses-two-years

Read More

South Africa’s lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn and 20 win

Read here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55154525

Read More

Absa data leak update: ID numbers, vehicle details among stolen info

Read here: https://www.businessinsider.co.za/absa-hit-by-data-leak-2020-12

Read More

California hacker who stole proprietary information from Nintendo sentenced to three years in prison

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/california-hacker-who-stole-proprietary-information-nintendo-sentenced-three-years

Read More

UK’s Big Four auditors await shake-up as corruption probes add up

Read here: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/uks-big-four-auditors-await-shake-up-as-corruption-probes-add-up.835730

Read More

Wirecard: Gardaí investigate alleged €400m fraud at Irish arm

Read here: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/wirecard-garda%C3%AD-investigate-alleged-400m-fraud-at-irish-arm-1.4423904

Read More

Swiss role in bribery by Dutch firm SBM Offshore under investigation

Read here: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-role-in-bribery-by-dutch-firm-sbm-offshore-under-investigation/46195678

Read More

Banks use privacy-enhancing tech to tackle money laundering as regulation lags

Read here: https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/banks-use-privacy-enhancing-tech-to-tackle-money-laundering-as-regulation-lags-61074568

Read More

Hacker Collective Member Who Made Online Threats Against Schools and Airline Sentenced to Nearly 8 Years in Federal Prison

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/hacker-collective-member-who-made-online-threats-against-schools-and-airline-sentenced

Read More

Italian mafia probe shows banks exposure to massive alleged laundering scheme

Read here: https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2020/12/italy-mafia-probe-shows-banks-exposure-to-massive-alleged-laundering-scheme/

Read More