Tag: money laundering

• 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.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2019 - 18:19 UTC

  Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man clash with Commons over financial transparency

  

  Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man are not represented in the House of Commons, yet MPs are being asked to change laws in the islands. Some have warned the move could spark a constitutional crisis, and even calls for independence. So can MPs actually force the laws - making company ownership information public - on the Crown dependencies?

• Wednesday, March 13th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  EU adds ten more countries to the blacklist of tax havens including several British Overseas Territories

  

  EU finance ministers approved on Tuesday the addition of 10 more countries to the EU’s blacklist of tax havens, which currently includes only five jurisdictions and aims to help prevent tax fraud or evasion.

• Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 04:40 UTC

  EU money laundering black list blocked following US and Saudi complaints

  

  The United States on Friday welcomed the blocking of a proposal to add a group of countries, including four American territories, to the EU money-laundering blacklist after almost all member states opposed it. The US ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, hit out at the “dogmatic posturing” of the European Commission, the bloc's executive arm.

• Friday, February 22nd 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  Bolsonaro's Senator son investigated by federal authorities for money laundering

  

  The senator son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is under investigation by federal authorities for money laundering in connection to unexplained increases in his net worth, the prosecutor general’s office said on Thursday.

• Thursday, February 21st 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  Swiss bank UBS fined €3.7bn in France for helping clients launder proceeds of tax fraud

  

  Swiss banking giant UBS has been fined €3.7bn (US$4.2bn) in a French tax fraud case. A court in Paris found that the bank had illegally helped French clients hide billions of Euros from French tax authorities between 2004 and 2012.