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
As forecasted in a blog post last summer, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has again used the money laundering statute to accomplish the otherwise elusive goal of prosecuting foreign officials who allegedly...more
2/15/2018
/ Bribery ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Energy Sector ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Foreign Official ,
Guilty Pleas ,
Indictments ,
Money Laundering ,
Oil & Gas ,
Venezuela