Search Results for: Money laundering
International Telecom Group offices raided over money laundering and tax fraud suspicion
June 22nd, 2016
Nineteen people have been arrested and nine of them charged with money laundering after BuzzFeed News revealed Lycamobile’s “deeply suspicious” cash movements. The Conservative party’s biggest donor, the telecoms giant Lycamobile, has been raided by French police on suspicion ...
FINRA Fines Raymond James $17 Million for Systemic Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Failures
May 19th, 2016
Former AML Compliance Officer Fined and Suspended The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (RJA) and Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. (RJFS), a total of $17 million for widespread ...
Craigs Investment Partners admitted that has breached the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act
May 5th, 2016
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has today issued a formal warning to Craigs Investment Partners Limited (Craigs) under section 80 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (the AML/CFT Act). Section 22 of the AML/CFT ...
HSBC comes up short in money laundering vigilance, U.S. says
April 4th, 2016
HSBC Holdings Plc has not done enough to thwart money laundering, despite making significant progress since reaching a landmark 2012 anti-money-laundering settlement with U.S. prosecutors, a federal monitor has found. The monitor “remains unable to certify that the bank’s ...
US Treasury rules FBME ‘still a money laundering concern’
March 28th, 2016
The US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued a final ruling imposing prohibition on the opening or maintaining of correspondent accounts for, or on behalf of, FBME Bank Ltd, the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) announced on ...
Italian police open money laundering investigation of broker linked to HSBC
March 23rd, 2016
An Italian financial broker who worked on behalf of HSBC in the Swiss town of Lugano is under investigation for possible money laundering in a probe linked to a wider tax evasion case, an Italian finance police colonel told ...
Barclays accused of ditching clients born in countries considered high-risk for money laundering
March 18th, 2016
Barclays has been accused of ditching clients who were born in countries that are classified as high-risk after it was pulled up by the Financial Conduct Authority in November for failing to do due diligence and proper financial crime ...
Credit Suisse Accused of Money Laundering by Billionaire
March 17th, 2016
Former Georgian PM alleges bank failed to control ex-manager Geneva criminal complaint is latest to target the Zurich bank Lawyers for Georgia’s billionaire former prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili accused Credit Suisse Group AG of money laundering as they step ...
UBS investigated for tax fraud and money laundering in Belgium
February 29th, 2016
Swiss bank giant UBS is being investigated over money laundering and serious organised tax fraud in Belgium. A statement from prosecutors said: “The Swiss bank is suspected of having directly, and not via its Belgian subsidiary, approached Belgian clients ...
China’s top bank raided in Spain over money laundering
February 18th, 2016
Five employees of China’s biggest bank have been arrested in Spain on suspicion of laundering money across Europe. Police made the arrests Wednesday after raiding the offices of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Madrid. One of ...
