Tag: money laundering

• 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.

• Thursday, February 25th 2021 - 10:22 UTC

  Argentina: the icon of Kirchners' business friends sentenced to 12 years in jail for money laundering

  

  Argentine justice despite its disrepute has inflicted a mighty blow to the dominant force of the country's political system since 2003, the Nestor and Cristina Kirchner couple, currently headed by the widow Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

• Tuesday, September 22nd 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Mexican court unfreezes bank account of company blacklisted by US for trading with Venezuela

  

  Mexican court has unfrozen the bank accounts of a local company blacklisted by the United States for trading in oil with Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA despite US sanctions, Mexico's anti-money laundering unit said.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 09:11 UTC

  Lula charged with money laundering bribes from Odebrecht

  

  Prosecutors in Brazil's sprawling Car Wash corruption investigation on Monday charged former President Lula da Silva with money laundering, less than a year after the country's top court ordered him freed from jail while he appealed his conviction in another case.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  Brazil tightens controls over money laundering and illicit financial activities

  

  The Brazilian government on Tuesday issued a decree moving the Financial Activities Control Board (Coaf), which monitors nefarious financial activity such as money laundering, into a new Financial Intelligence Unit under central bank control.

• Friday, August 9th 2019 - 10:31 UTC

  Once Brazil's richest man, Batista is again arrested on money laundering suspicion

  

  Police in Brazil on Thursday arrested Eike Batista, the charismatic mining and oil magnate who was once the country’s richest man, on suspicion of money laundering and insider trading.

• Thursday, June 27th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Former intelligence chief claims Maduro is head of criminal enterprise looting Venezuela

  

  Venezuela's former intelligence chief, Cristopher Figuera, who fled the country after backing a failed uprising against President Nicolas Maduro in April, has told the Washington Post the regime could still fall.

• Saturday, April 27th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Lula da Silva claims that Brazil is governed by “a gang of madmen”

  

  Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva on Friday said the country is governed by a “gang of madmen” in his first interview from prison, where he is serving an almost nine-year sentence.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Florencia Kirchner's lawyer presented her medical history and address in Cuba

  

  The defense of Florencia Kirchner presented before the Federal Oral Court 5 in charge of the “Los Sauces” case, her complete medical record and her residence address in Cuba on Monday, as requested by the Argentine Justice.