Sentences with phrase «of illegal financing»

He testified in Audiencia Nacional as a witness in the framework of the investigation into the Gürtel corruption scandal, of the illegal financing of his party.

In Spain, for example, serious corruption scandals referring to decades of illegal financing by the conservative party, and the atrocious mismanagement of a fund created by the socialist government of Andalucía to aid companies engaged in collective dismissal procedures (EREs in their Spanish acronym) have recently emerged.

Not exact matches

A federal jury acquitted him in 2012 of accepting illegal political contributions and deadlocked on five other campaign finance charges, allowing him to retain his law license.

The ultimate disproof lies in the hidden circularity of the Finance professor's argument, which we can illuminate by contemplating the process by which something is made illegal.

«First and foremost, this is an opportunity for laundering illegal gains, tax evasion and even financing of terrorism, not to mention the proliferation of scams to which ordinary people can fall victim,» he said in October.

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.

January 22, 2018: The campaign finance and anti-corruption watchdog group Common Cause filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice asking them to «determine whether the payment was made by the Trump Organization or some other corporation or individual, which would additionally make it an illegal in - kind contribution to the campaign.»

The Finance Minister of India, Mr Arun Jaitley, as the experts believe, just took on the Cryptocurrency market in India by a storm as he insinuated that legislation are in the works that would make the cryptocurrencies illegal in India.

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.

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..

In today's «derivative» stage of finance capitalism, large Wall Street banks make money off their customers and counterparties by betting which way the economy will go, much like betting on a horse race — except that «fixing» the financial race is not illegal, or at least is not prosecuted.

In fact, a recent myth that India was going to outright ban cryptocurrency stemmed from a call by India's Minister of Finance for action with regard to putting an end to illegal activities funded through cryptocurrency.

«Citizens and legal entities risk being drawn - even unintentionally - into illegal activity, including laundering of money obtained through crime, as well as financing terrorism,» Russia's Central Bank said in a statement.

A grass - roots movement to abolish secret government, to bring the CIA and other illegal spying operations and private armies out of the closet of imperial power and into the light, to break the hold of the military - industrial complex, and to establish genuine public financing of elections may be at least theoretically conceivable.

To help ensure that Rainforest Alliance, Inc. (the «Rainforest Alliance») complies with the highest standards of financial reporting and lawful and ethical behavior, the Board of Directors of the Rainforest Alliance (the «Board») has established the following procedures for the reporting of illegal or unethical conduct in connection with the Rainforest Alliance's finances, corporate policies, or other aspects of its operations, and the retention and treatment of such complaints, including confidential, anonymous submissions received from directors, officers, employees, and volunteers who provide substantial services to the Rainforest Alliance (who are referred to in this policy as «volunteers»).

Slumlord and Cuomo campaign finance chairman Andrew Farkas was caught red - handed taking nearly $ 8 million in illegal kickbacks using tax money earmarked for the maintenance of federal housing projects.

... In 1988, Lowey ousted DioGuardi after a report that Joseph Crabtree, the head of DioGuardi's campaign finance committee, had funneled more than $ 50,000 in illegal contributions to the campaign through his numerous auto dealerships.

It should not be a shock to me or anyone else he's going to advocate for the policies of his candidate, however misguided they may be, including public financing of campaigns and tuition for illegal immigrants and things of that nature.

The benefits of such a system would be to «dry up illegal black markets,» reduce the burden on law enforcement and use the cannabis tax to finance drug prevention, education and rehabilitation.

In a case that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee played up during the 2012 election, the ethics committee in July began a review of whether Grimm violated campaign - finance laws by seeking and accepting illegal contributions, created false reports and improperly sought assistance from a foreign national.

It is therefore, illegal and unconstitutional to deduct LGC's allocations from Federation Account to finance newly created community centres in the name of LGC or to finance state programmes and projects.

The emails do not appear to provide evidence of illegal activity, but legal experts say Trump Jr. could run into trouble if investigators find he aided a criminal action, such as hacking into Democratic computer networks, or violated campaign - finance laws by accepting gifts from foreign entities.

Jenny Hou is accused of helping Liu's campaign skirt campaign finance laws by allegedly using straw donors to channel illegal contributions far above the legal limit into Liu's campaign coffers.

The Republic has also heard claims that Mr. Ashigbey, who has led a media crusade against illegal mining, also known as «galamsey,» has messed up finances at the GCGL, publishers of the flagship national broadsheet, Daily Graphic.

The case centred on the illegal and unlawful retirement of Shuaib over an allegation of criticizing a former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala in an opinion article on lopsided appointment in the public service.

The jurors also could not reach a verdict on two additional counts of illegal practices in campaign financing, and acquitted the Bridgeport Democrat of one count of witness tampering.

It's important to note that the Senate Democrats were the subject of a very serious criminal referral and remain under investigation for an illegal scheme they hatched with Mayor de Blasio to circumvent the state's campaign finance limits and steal the elections in 2014.»

He was also alleged to have used public funds to finance private expenses, while engaging in illegal payment of allowances to the university's council members.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) minority in Parliament has learnt with profound sadness and dismay, the illegal raid and invasion of the office and privacy of the Deputy Commissioner of the Electoral Commission (E.C) in charge of Finance and Administration, Mrs. Georgina Opoku Amankwa.

If true then our Glorious Dear Leader, both in his incarnations and keeper of the nation's finance and leader of our country should have made such a status illegal years ago.

Daramola was also said to have allegedly used public funds to finance private expenses, while engaging in illegal payment of allowances to the university's council members.

«As the jury found, Jia Hou and Oliver Pan stuck a knife into the heart of New York City's campaign finance law by violating the prohibition against illegal campaign contributions, all to corruptly advantage the campaign of a candidate for citywide office,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a press release.

Assemblyman Kevin Byrne added: «Last week during our transportation budget hearing, Senate Finance Chairwoman Sen. Cathy Young rightfully asked NYS DOT Commissioner Karas if our state would be facing any federal penalties for its illegal I Love NY signs, which Gov. (Andrew) Cuomo has already spent $ 8.1 million of your hard - earned tax dollars on.

Hon. Gabriel T. Suswam (m), former Governor of Benue State of No. 1 Rio Negro Street, Maitama, Abuja; Omadachi Oklobia (m), former Commissioner for Finance of Flat 1 Block A13, Marathon Avenue, Games Village, Abuja; and Janet Aluga (f), former Accountant, Benue State Government House Administration of David Mark Extension, Agber Village, Makurdi, Benue State, between August 8, 2012 and March 16, 2015 at Makurdi, Benue State, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did conspire among yourselves to transfer a total sum of about N4, 135,208,404.90, from the Benue State SURE - P account number 0116099195, domiciled in Guaranty Trust Bank, into various illegal accounts with the aim of concealing the money which you derived directly from corruption.

Governor Cuomo is seeking a number of progressive items, and Skelos ruled out agreeing to several of them, including public campaign financing, and college aid to children of illegal immigrants.

AFT's dark (and illegal) money groups got dinged to the tune of $ 30,000 for «failure to organize as a PAC, failure to disclose finance activity accurately, contributions made in a manner intended to disguise the true source of the contributions, receipt of contributions not raised in accordance with campaign law, and use of wire transfers.»

But it's only when DeMarco gets a tip on the likely illegal source of some of Callahan's financing that things get deadly.

In the sale or rental of housing In advertising the sale or rental of housing In the financing of housing In the provision of real estate brokerage service In the appraisal of housing Blockbusting is also illegal

«In a country where only a few years ago timber exports helped finance a brutal war, these shipments of illegal logs from Liberia represent a deeply troubling breakdown in the rule of law,» said Jonathan Gant of Global Witness.

They called on Surui leaders to decentralize the implementation of the community - assistance work financed under the project, and they also called on federal authorities to monitor illegal logging and to take an active role in supporting the project.

Armed groups and criminal networks within the Congolese army are financing themselves through illegal control of mines and trading routes in parts of eastern Congo.

With every wood products purchase, consumers have the opportunity to support positive examples of forest production, or instead, often unwittingly, to finance illegal logging.

Naomi Basik Treanor is Manager of the Forest Policy, Trade, and Finance Initiative's work on illegal logging, governance, and trade.

Investigations out of EIA's U.S. office have also come across RSPO failures as part of research to understand the roots and financing of new, illegal deforestation for oil palm and other agro-commodity crops in the Peruvian Amazon.

Newsweek: Extinction Trade Wildlife Direct: Virunga National Park Blog ICCN website (French) World Resources Institute: Illegal Animal Trade Finances War in Africa War and Politics Threaten Congo's Endangered Rhinos Searchable Database: Trade in Species, by Country More photos of the okapi at ZSL's site More on Endangered Species What Can Be Done to Save Primates?

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In February, when the finance minister was reading the budget, he was keen to note that digital money was not recognized as a legal tender and it would not be long before they [the finance ministry] suppress the usage of the cryptos in case they were used for illegal purposes.

China also banned initial coin offerings at the beginning of the month as an illegal form of public financing.

News agency Reuters reported on Monday that the Finance Ministry of India feels that the government is laying down steps which will ensure that the cryptocurrencies are deemed to be illegal within the payment structure.

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