US Sanctions Burmese Arms Dealers Supplying Myanmar’s Junta
The U.S. Treasury imposed on Tuesday sanctions on three Burmese businessmen and their company for allegedly supplying...
Asia
Scientist Convicted for Helping Russia Spy on US Had High-Level Mexican Political Connections
A Florida judge sent Mexican scientist Héctor Cabrera-Fuentes to jail in June on the charge of being an unregistered foreign...
Transparency UK Warns of Widespread Use of LLPs for Financial Crime
The U.K. branch of the global anti-graft watchdog Transparency International warned on Monday that more than one in ten of...
Oliver Stone Documentary About Kazakhstan’s Former Leader Nazarbayev Was Funded by a Nazarbayev Foundation
The documentary was panned for its hagiographic take on Kazakhstan’s longtime dictator. As it turns out, a foundation...
Elliptic: Over $4 Billion in Illicit Crypto Laundered via Cross-Chain Technologies
Criminals have laundered at least US$4 billion-worth of illicit crypto proceeds using cross-chain technologies since 2020,...
Singapore Authorities Make Their Biggest Rhino Horns Seizure
In what has been described as the single largest seizure of rhino horn in Singapore’s history, authorities at Changi Airport...
Pakistan Court Acquits Maryam Nawaz of Corruption
A court in Pakistan quashed last week the conviction of Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif,...
Filipino Journalist Shot Dead, Activists Demand Justice
In the Philippines, one of the world’s deadliest countries for reporters, media groups and press freedom activists called...
Suisse Secrets
Taiwanese Tycoon Jailed for Embezzlement May Have Used Girlfriend to Hide Tens of Millions at Credit Suisse
When Sun Daocun died in 2021, he left behind a string of unresolved debts which had enraged a long line of creditors. Now,...
Swedbank Ex-CEO on Trial for Alleged Money-Laundering Cover-Up
Swedbank’s former CEO went on trial in Stockholm Tuesday in a high-profile white-collar crime case involving massive money...
Ukraine Arrests Bureaucrats Facilitating Illegal Fishing on the Danube
As war with Russia continues to rage In Ukraine’s east, Kyiv’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) is battling corruption in...
US Authorities Indict Putin’s Pal Deripaska
U.S. authorities unsealed Thursday an indictment against Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, his girlfriend and three other...