Money Laundering


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New Zealand Man Charged With Money Laundering via Crypto and Luxury Cars

As well as making cryptocurrency transactions, the man is alleged to have bought luxury cars and property to launder funds.

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The FinCEN Files Show Banks Don’t Actually Care About Stopping Money Laundering

The massive leak of suspicious activity reports shows how banks let the government know about likely money laundering, then go right on providing services.

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US Moves to Seize $400M From Convicted OneCoin Money Launderer

The U.S. Department of Justice wants an attorney to hand over the massive sum he helped launder for the OneCoin scheme.

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Binance Credited With Helping Take Down Ukraine Crypto Laundering Group

Binance began pouring more resources into its data analysis and laundering detection capabilities earlier this year.

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US Prosecutors Seize Bitcoin Allegedly Tied to Al Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas

The U.S. Department of Justice is trying to seize bitcoin from 155 addresses it alleges were used by Al Qaeda to fund terrorism.

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Interactive Brokers to Pay $38M in Settlement Over AML Lapses

Publicly traded brokerage firm Interactive Brokers has agreed to pay multi-million dollar penalties to the SEC, Finra and CFTC for failure to flag suspicious transactions and lapses in AML compliance.

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'Superman29' May Do Time: California Resident Pleads Guilty to Laundering Millions Using Illegal Bitcoin ATMs

Kais Mohammad, aka “Superman29,” has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges he ran an unlicensed Bbtcoin ATM network that laundered up to $25 million.

HSI Los Angeles Special Agents and Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department Deputies execute search warrants at mutliple locations in Los Angeles and Orange Counties and sieze more than a dozen ATM Bit Coin machines.

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Latvian Police Seize Crypto Worth $126K in Bust of Suspected Cybercrime Ring

The “large-scale" money laundering operation ran from 2015 through 2020, police officials allege.

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FBI Report on Laundering by Private Funds Cites OneCoin Fraud in All but Name

OneCoin, an infamous crypto fraud, makes an uncredited cameo in a leaked FBI intelligence bulletin on the money-laundering risks of investment funds.

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Spanish Police Accuse Illegal Drug Vendor of Laundering $3.3M Haul in Crypto

The National Police of Spain said vendors’ “purchase of virtual currency stands out.” Police arrested 33 suspects across two parallel raids.

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