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  • Sunday, 28 May, 2023
    Casey Michel
    Now the UK is finally tackling ‘Londongrad’, it’s time the US upped its game

    Spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Westminster is at long last stemming the flows of illicit wealth into Britain’s capital

  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Clamping down on Russia’s sanctions evasion

    Western leaders need to get tougher on offshore secrecy jurisdictions

  • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
    Lebanon
    France issues arrest warrant for Lebanon central bank chief

    Riad Salameh failed to appear before Paris investigators over corruption and money-laundering

  • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
    Jemima Kelly
    Using crypto for crime is not a bug — it’s an industry feature

    Despite last year’s market downturn, it was a record period for crypto-based illicit transactions

  • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
    InterviewPanama
    Panama expects to escape watchdog’s money laundering ‘grey list’ this year

    Central American nation has been under international intense pressure to clean up financial system

  • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
    Russia
    Fugitive businessman wanted in the US emerges in Russia

    Artem Uss escaped from Italian detention before he could be extradited to America

  • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
    Mikhail Fridman
    UK scales back probe into Mikhail Fridman four months after raid in London

    National Crime Agency drops two of three lines of inquiry against sanctions-hit Russian billionaire after his arrest in December

  • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
    UK crime
    Britain risks becoming ‘haven for fraudsters’, MPs warn

    Home Office slammed as ‘sluggish and outmanoeuvred’ on launch of new economic crime plan

  • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
    Germany to ‘follow the money’ with new financial crime agency

    Berlin has been dogged by criticism following the collapse of Wirecard

  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Lebanon’s central bank chief in court to face money-laundering allegations

    Riad Salameh for the first time appears in front of European investigators probing the accusations

  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
    Financial fraud
    Exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui arrested on US fraud charges

    Prosecutors allege he ‘led a complex conspiracy’ to bilk online followers out of more than $1bn

  • Monday, 13 March, 2023
    White collar crime
    Small UK companies set to be excluded from anti-fraud legislation

    MPs and anti-corruption campaigners criticise plans to limit scope of new ‘failure to prevent’ offence

  • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
    Vladimir Putin
    Swiss prosecutors charge four bankers with helping to hide Putin’s millions

    Employees of Gazprombank’s subsidiary accused of helping Kremlin-connected figure open accounts

  • Friday, 24 February, 2023
    African economy
    South Africa and Nigeria put on anti-money laundering ‘grey list’

    Global watchdog says Africa’s two biggest economies need to do more to fight financial crime

  • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
    Yevgeny Prigozhin
    Russian warlord passed UK money laundering checks with mother’s utility bill

    Law firm relied on gas invoice when scrutinising Wagner group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin as prospective client

  • Friday, 10 February, 2023
    Barclays PLC
    Barclays probed by UK regulator over anti-money laundering systems

    FCA review is latest problem for lender that has struggled with compliance missteps in recent years

  • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
    Tax evasion and avoidance
    Thousands of offshore companies miss UK property register deadline

    List set up to tackle estimated £100bn of illicit financing often channelled through British real estate

  • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
    News in-depthGambling industry
    Fall of Asia’s gambling kingpin augurs change for Macau industry

    Alvin Chau’s jailing comes as Beijing cracks down on money laundering and capital flight

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    White collar crime
    UK to make ‘failure to prevent fraud’ a criminal offence

    Government will target law firms and accountants in new bill

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    Cryptocurrencies
    Crypto lender Nexo under investigation in Bulgaria

    Sofia prosecutor’s office says it is probing possible money laundering and other criminal offences

  • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
    Danske Bank AS
    Danske Bank to pay $2bn penalty for defrauding US banks

    Denmark’s largest lender pleads guilty to resolve one of the biggest money-laundering scandals in years

  • Friday, 9 December, 2022
    Santander UK PLC
    Santander UK fined £108mn for anti-money laundering failures

    Bank’s poor management created ‘prolonged and severe risk’ of financial crime, says regulator

  • Saturday, 3 December, 2022
    UK crime
    UK crime agency arrests wealthy Russian businessman at London home

    58-year-old man and two others held by NCA’s anti-kleptocracy unit

  • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The ECJ’s gift to oligarchs under sanctions

    A ruling that limits access to corporate registries is a blow in the fight against Putin

  • Monday, 28 November, 2022
    Access to EU public registers ends: ‘We are going back to era of corporate secrecy’

    Campaigners say invalidation of member states’ databases will hinder efforts to tackle abuse of ownership rules

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