Search Results for: Money laundering
Boiler room fraudsters ordered to pay £843k
December 15th, 2014
Two men involved in a £70 million boiler room fraud have been ordered to pay £843,000 between them after being found guilty of conspiracy to defraud. In 2010 Philip Morris and Daniel Gooding were among the nine fraudsters found ...
HSBC sets aside head of European forex trading
December 11th, 2014
HSBC has sacked its European currency trading chief in the wake of a huge $618m (£394m) fine for manipulating the £3.3trn a day foreign exchange market. The bank is understood to have “let go” Stuart Scott on Tuesday following ...
U.S. auction of Silk Road bitcoins draws 27 bids
December 5th, 2014
The U.S. Marshals Service on Thursday received more than two dozen bids for 50,000 bitcoins seized from the alleged owner of Silk Road, an Internet black-market bazaar on which authorities say drugs and other illegal goods could be bought. ...
Corruption Perceptions Index 2014: RESULTS
December 4th, 2014
Poorly equipped schools, counterfeit medicine and elections decided by money are just some of the consequences of public sector corruption. Bribes and backroom deals don’t just steal resources from the most vulnerable – they undermine justice and economic development, ...
Bitcoin Fund Manager Faces HSBC Account Closure
December 2nd, 2014
Global Advisors, a firm based in Jersey that manages the first regulated bitcoin fund, has been served notice by its bank, HSBC. The firm said it received a notice from HSBC indicating that the company’s bank account would be ...
Bitcoin Needs an Aggressive Legal Defense
November 25th, 2014
Across the board, bitcoin requires forceful and aggressive legal defense, not complicity with governments in crafting policy and regulations. It’s going to get a lot rougher for bitcoin in the months and years ahead. We have to be prepared. ...
World Bank: Bitcoin is not a “Ponzi Scheme”
November 19th, 2014
Ponzi scheme: A fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator. Many of the ...
2G scam: Trial begins, court records statement of ED officer in PMLA case
November 17th, 2014
The trial in a 2G scam related money laundering case involving former Telecom Minster A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and others today commenced before a special court which recorded statement of prosecution witness Himanshu Kumar Lal, Joint Director of Enforcement Directorate (ED). Lal, who is also the ...
Standard Chartered to close MidEast branches
November 13th, 2014
Standard Chartered is set to cull an unspecified number of branches in the Middle East, as part of plans to cut up to 100 locations in emerging markets next year in a bid to save $400 million. The global ...
MFSA: Notice to Financial Services Licence Holders
November 6th, 2014
The MFSA has issued a notice to draw the attention of licence holders to the recent publication of two public documents by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) which have identified countries considered to have strategic deficiencies regarding anti-money ...
