On June 12, 2018, FinCEN issued an “Advisory on Human Rights Abuses Enabled by Corrupt Senior Foreign Political Figures and their Financial Facilitators” to highlight the connection between corrupt senior foreign political...more
6/19/2018
/ Corruption ,
Exploitation ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Transactions ,
FinCEN ,
Foreign Official ,
Human Rights ,
Money Laundering ,
Offshore Companies ,
PEP ,
Shell Corporations ,
Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) ,
White Collar Crimes
In its “Risk Outlook, Autumn Update” (“Update”) released last week, the Solicitor Regulation Authority (“SRA”), a regulator of solicitors and law firms in England and Wales, found that although the legal sector remains at...more
As widely reported, the Spanish police raided last year the Madrid offices of the Chinese state-run Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (“ICBC”), the world’s biggest bank by assets. In the nearly 18 months following that...more
8/7/2017
/ Banking Sector ,
BSA/AML ,
China ,
Corruption ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Enforcement Actions ,
FinCEN ,
Money Laundering ,
Money Transfer ,
Patriot Act ,
Popular ,
Spain ,
SWIFT ,
White Collar Crimes