Sentences with phrase «laundering drug money»

Montreal couple convicted of laundering drug money in case dating back decade, Montreal Gazette

Osborne sent a letter in 2012 to Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, in an attempt to help HSBC's leadership avoid criminal charges over the bank's involvement in laundering drug money and in channelling money to countries under economic sanctions.

Servando Carbone, the national coordinator of the National Federation of Public Sector Workers, said the Bitcoin alternative «is an invention of the government to launder drug money.»

Spoiler alert: she does not go into detail about how fentanyl dealers used the real estate market to launder drug money or how B.C. casinos (also big donors to her party) helped international high rollers convert duffel bags of dirty cash into down payments on luxury homes.

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Colleagues said it would be used for money laundering, drugs, and other illicit activities, he says — the same criticisms lobbed at Bitcoin when it debuted.

The man, Ross Ulbricht, was convicted of seven felonies, including trafficking drugs on the internet, narcotics - trafficking conspiracy, running a continuing criminal enterprise, computer hacking, and money laundering.

Such a system makes it difficult for governments to know the identities of people exchanging money, so it has become a haven for money laundering, drug dealing, and corruption.

She was convicted of drug conspiracy and money laundering charges — her first offenses — and has been in federal person since 1996.

U.S. authorities said Thursday they have shut down the successor website to Silk Road, an underground online drug marketplace, and charged its alleged operator with conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering and other crimes.

At the height of its power it sent hundreds of tons of cocaine to the US and laundered billions of dollars in drug money.

The CPOT list «is a multiagency target list of the «command and control» elements of the most prolific international drug trafficking and money laundering organizations,» according to the Justice Department.

«Ozark» is a recently released original drama series starring Jason Bateman as a money - laundering family man who's seriously jammed up with the Mexican drug cartel he works for.

Lehder's involvement in the drug trade proved valuable when he was able to testify against Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, who had assisted the Medellin cartel with its money - laundering activities.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Justice Department is forming a team of prosecutors to investigate drug trafficking and money laundering linked to Iranian - backed Hezbollah militant movement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday.

After less than a day of deliberations, the jury of six men and six women found Ulbricht guilty of charges including drug trafficking, and conspiracies to commit money laundering and computer hacking.

This digital - currency trading platform provided an online black market for money laundering of illegal drugs, weapons and human trafficking and other nefarious offerings.

At the same time as a result of sloppy execution some of these banks are guilty themselves of facilitating drug money laundering activities and as a result have paid billion dollar settlement fines.

He said the bank is concerned bitcoin might be used for fraud or other illegal activities like terrorism, money laundering, prostitution, drug trafficking.

For example, in the aforementioned article, reference is made to a gentlemen named Martin Woods, who served as director of Wachovia's anti-money laundering unit in London for three years before leaving his position «in disgust» after his repeated requests to executives to put a stop to ongoing drug money laundering operations, which were allegedly occurring in Wachovia's branch network, were ignored).

The association names illegal fundraising among the ranks of criminal activities, such as money laundering, drug trafficking, and smuggling, that it links to virtual currency.

American Express Bank International admitted to processing more than $ 55 million in drug money that had been laundered through offshore shell accounts that it operates.»

Canadian and international banks take the position that they won't board bitcoin clients because of concerns that bitcoin entities could be used to facilitate drug money laundering activities.

«The Silk Road underground website was the global venue for drug trafficking and money laundering, producing millions in dirty profits.

The «modern technology services» discussed in the report point to cryptocurrencies and their usage to launder money derived from the illicit trade of firearms, drugs, human trafficking, and other organized crime.

Take a deep dive into the underworld of drugs and money laundering as this ex-undercover agent explains how he infiltrated the Medellin drug cartel.

To combat the activities of Mexican, Central American, and South American transnational criminal organizations — including illicit finance and money laundering activities and the flow of illegal drugs — the FBI works side - by - side with its numerous domestic and international partners to infiltrate, disrupt, and dismantle these groups by targeting their leadership and using sensitive investigative and intelligence techniques in long - term, proactive investigations.

Widespread cargo theft has also given rise to concomitant offenses such as robbery, kidnapping, homicide, interstate transportation of stolen motor vehicles, drug trafficking, health care fraud, money laundering and insurance fraud.

Middle Eastern transnational criminal organizations typically engage in automobile theft, financial fraud, money laundering, interstate transportation of stolen property, smuggling, drug trafficking, document fraud, health care fraud, identity fraud, cigarette smuggling, trademark counterfeiting and sales of counterfeit goods, and the theft and redistribution of infant formula.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

Shamo was convicted on May 31, 2017 along with fellow dark web operators for several drug - related offences, including trafficking and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

When they are looking for a way for the main character to launder his drug dealing money, they at least look at buying the car wash he worked at as a teenager.

This is a document aimed prevent and minimize possible risks of any kind of illegal activity, such as money laundering, terrorist financing, drug and human trafficking, etc..

The jury of six men and six women needed a little over three hours to deliberate before finding Ulbricht guilty of charges that included conspiracies to commit money laundering, computer hacking and drug trafficking.

CipherTrace helps agencies investigate money laundering, ransomware, drug trafficking, extortion, child exploitation and fraudulent ICOs.

He has set out his stall to get the bank back on track after a series of scandals including HSBC's involvement in laundering money for Mexican drug cartels.

It is commonly associated with criminal activity such as drug dealing, cyber crime and money laundering, since it can be near - impossible to tie a bitcoin wallet to any one individual.

Bitcoin is an anonymous, peer - to - peer currency that is used for everything from purchasing electronics to money laundering and drug purchases.

Money - laundering casinos, a housing market corrupted by drug dealers, powerful industries writing their own laws — our beautiful province is rotting from the inside out.

On the second day of trial earlier this month the Shoreline man pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, money laundering and witness intimidation.

As soon as you expose a jewish child to a mass media he or she will grow up to be either a corrupted mafia lawer or a Columbian drug money laundering banker.

And how sincere is our antidrug effort going to be when the financial community realizes that the cash flow from the drug trade is the only thing preventing a default by some of the heavily indebted Latin American nations or major money - laundering banks?

The 48 - year - old has something of a shady past in this aspect, and has been involved in a number of questionable activieis such as money laundering and getting involved in business deals with drug lords.

«We also face significant challenges with foreign national offenders and organised crime including drugs, money laundering, fraud, criminal finances, intellectual property, immigration and cyber crime.»

Critics say the city law shields undocumented aliens who commit serious offenses, including sexual abuse, prescription drug sales, bribery, money laundering, harassment, grand larceny and drunk driving, from federal detention and deportation.

The defense attorney in 2008 pleaded guilty to a single instance of felony cocaine possession after an investigation of crimes that ranged from money laundering to mortgage fraud to drug distribution.

Nana Poku — he was convicted in Germany for the drugs - related offence of money - laundering.

The news follows earlier revelations that HSBC's subsidiaries also helped launder money for drug cartels, terrorists and pariah states.

The misrepresentation is unfortunate, as is the political correctness that makes it difficult to honestly discuss the decline of the neighborhood in recent decades: drugs, prostitution, money laundering and boarded - up buildings.

In total, charges were filed against 20 people for drug trafficking, firearms and money laundering.

That is — terrorism, child pornography, money laundering and drugs,» says Timothy May, a Californian cryptography and computing consultant.