Tag: money laundering

• Saturday, October 12th 2024 - 10:14 UTC

  Paraguay tightens the screws on fight against money laundering and terrorism financing

  

  Paraguayan authorities announced this week that adjustments were being implemented to comply with the Latin American Financial Action Task Force (Gafilat) recommendations regarding the fight against money laundering, terrorist financing, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

• Friday, August 4th 2023 - 10:35 UTC

  Colombian president under fire after son's money laundering admission

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro Urrgo insisted Thursday that he intends to remain in office until 2026 because he was elected by the people for such a commitment. The head of state made these remarks after his son Nicolás Petro Burgos admitted that his father's 2022 campaign had been financed with contributions from a questionable origin.

• Monday, February 13th 2023 - 14:39 UTC

  Falklands and Gibraltar in Spanish List of tax havens and alleged money laundering

  

  The Falklands/Malvinas and Gibraltar figure among the latest list of countries and territories, which are considered tax havens by the Spanish Government, allegedly involved in money laundering operations, following on the latest international concept of non-cooperative jurisdiction in the matter.

• Friday, October 22nd 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Controversial former Paraguayan Senator González Daher dies aged 68

  

  Former Paraguayan Senator Óscar González Daher has died aged 68 Thursday afternoon at a clinic in the city of Luque, Central Department, it was reported.

• Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Maduro appoints jailed ally, with pending extradition to US, to political talks with the opposition in Mexico

  

  Venezuela has announced that it will incorporate the government delegation in negotiations with the political opposition in Mexico, Alex Saab, a close ally jailed in Cape Verde, Africa who is to be extradited to the United States on corruption and money laundering charges.

• Thursday, September 9th 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Maduro's front man to be extradited to the United States; Venezuela complains of an arbitrary ruling

  

  The Constitutional Tribunal from Cape Verde ruled this week that Colombian businessman Alex Saab considered a front man for Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro can be extradited to the United States, where he faces charges of corruption and money laundering.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  Polls and proposed prime minister bloat disapproval for Peruvian president

  

  No rest for Peruvian president Pedro Castillo, not only opinion polls show that he is the newly inaugurated president with the lowest approval and highest disapproval since 1980, but his candidate for prime minister is again in trouble this time for alleged money laundering and illegal financing of his political campaign as a member of congress.

• Thursday, June 10th 2021 - 23:08 UTC

  Peru: Public Prosecutor requests preventive detention for Keiko Fujimori for failing to comply with probation

  

  The Peruvian public prosecutor's office has requested that conservative presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori be remanded in custody for failing to comply with “the obligations imposed by the Criminal Court of Appeals” by meeting with one of the witnesses in her alleged money laundering trial during a press conference, which she was prohibited from doing. The request is contained in a document circulating since Thursday with the signature of the prosecutor in charge of the Lava Jato case in Peru, José Domingo Pérez.

• Wednesday, April 7th 2021 - 09:53 UTC

  Patagonian hotels returned to Kirchner family as money laundering enquire reaches nowhere

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Monday recovered all her assets which have been involved in an alleged money-laundering scheme, a federal court ruled Monday.

• Friday, February 26th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Kirchnerist businessman Baéz will remain under house arrest; family divided over harsh sentences

  

  Argentine businessman and associate of former president Néstor Kirchner, Lázaro Báez will not return to jail for the moment. He will continue with an electronic anklet under the modality of house arrest in a house located in a gated community in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.