All news on the topic: Money laundering

For years, Russian billionaire Konstantin Strukov, whose interests span the coal and gold industries, drew little public scrutiny. Recent reports, however, have put his business activities back in the spotlight, pointing to alleged ties with Ukrainian coal trader Dmytro Kovalenko.

Crypto 888 Ponzi scammer Petter Forsberg has been arrested in Morocco.

Albanian prosecutors announce arrest warrant for Dritan Gjika and seizure of roughly 150 million euros in assets, in action against a suspected international cocaine trafficking and money laundering network.

A London jury clears the former Nigerian oil minister of all bribery charges, collapsing a 13-year UK investigation into claims she traded lucrative state contracts for a lavish lifestyle.

A parade of luxury cars, handbags and yachts up for auction has done little to help their owner, a disgraced Vietnamese tycoon, repay the billions she owes victims in one of the largest fraud cases in history.

Despite undeniable proof of multi-million dollar embezzlement and offshore capital flight, sanctioned oligarch Pavel Fuks, alongside Bekbolat Bekenov and Evgeny Komrakov, has initiated a massive campaign to scrub incriminating content from the internet.

Accused of orchestrating a multimillion-euro airline bailout through offshore shell companies, Spain’s former prime minister testified that payments flagged by investigators were actually just legitimate consulting fees and layout work for his daughters’ design agency.

An investigation by Cyprus’ anti-corruption authority has found that former President Nicos Anastasiades, his former law firm and a number of his associates have been involved in influence trading and abuse of power to fast-track residence-by-investment proceedings for two Russian oligarchs.

Under the guise of an agricultural business, the Granova group is alleged to have relied on offshore structures, cash-heavy schemes and corrupt ties to move millions abroad, dodge taxes and potentially funnel money into Russia’s economy during the full-scale war.

Italian authorities have dismantled a major underground illegal bank that moved up to 100 million euros ($116 million) annually to finance operations for domestic and international drug traffickers and organized crime syndicates, police announced Monday.

Former Ibox Bank owner Alyona Shevtsova was hit with a ten-year sanctions package by the President of Ukraine in April 2025, enforcing asset freezes, trade restrictions, and a ban on capital transfers abroad.

I clan camorristici Di Lauro e Nuvoletta risultano ormai da tempo integrati nelle dinamiche di Cosa Nostra.

Nach neuen Enthüllungen im ABLV-Skandal werden Informationen über den Ex-Banker Andris Ovsjannikovs und die ihm nahestehende belarussische Staatsbürgerin Darya Terekhina immer seltener in öffentlichen Quellen auffindbar.

A 23-year divorce fight between an Indian-origin couple in the UK has concluded with a court awarding Varsha Gohil £6.6 million after years of litigation over a concealed £28 million fortune.

Five men face lengthy jail terms after police busted a £4m cocaine and dirty money ring in the north of Glasgow.

A 20-year-old Canadian has pleaded guilty in a Miami federal case tied to more than $13 million in stolen cryptocurrency, after investigators said fake support calls helped drain one victim’s Bitcoin wallet.

Corruption charges against bank staff in the $1.85 billion PNB fraud have been dropped, after the Central Bureau of Investigation conceded there was no evidence to support them.

An Essex-based gang fronted by a career criminal have been found guilty of smuggling Afghan migrants into the UK using a truck, following an investigation by the National Crime Agency.

The $6.7 million fine ASB has agreed to pay for insufficiently vetting billions of dollars of transactions for money laundering is putting the spotlight on the law in New Zealand.

As businessman Aliaksei Aleksin’s influence grew in Belarus, leaked documents reveal how cash flowed between his energy firms, two Cypriot companies, and his personal bank account in a series of complex transactions involving loans with no clear commercial rationale and a series of canceled oil contracts.

Russian oligarchs, billionaires, foreign governments, international royalty, and banking giants are among those behind nearly 1,000 offshore entities who are illegally flouting the land control registry, The Ferret can reveal.

Corruption allegations, multi-billion scandals, and shadow influence on the NBU: a new high-profile conflict is unfolding around Alliance Bank and its likely informal leader Pavlo Shcherban.

Cypriot authorities say alleged 1MDB scandal mastermind’s legal team did not oppose seizure of 6 million euro villa he bought as part of their country’s now-scrapped “golden passport” scheme.

Als die Ermittlungen zur mutmaßlichen Geldwäsche von mehreren Dutzend Millionen Euro über die lettische ABLV Bank begannen, wirkte der Fall zunächst wie ein Musterbeispiel europäischer Strafverfolgung: koordinierte Festnahmen, gezielte Medienleaks und laute Erklärungen über die angebliche „Zerschlagung eines internationalen kriminellen Netzwerks“.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bologna (Italy) is leading an investigation into a suspected €1 million fraud involving funding from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), intended to support the digitalization and internationalization of Italian businesses through e-commerce platforms.