Sentences with phrase «of money laundering involving»

Any risk - based assessment would likely find very little risk of money laundering involving real estate agents or brokers.

The judge confirmed this on Tuesday during the resumed trial of Metuh and his company, Destra Investments Limited, on seven counts of money laundering involving alleged cash transaction of $ 2m and fraudulent receipt of N400m meant for procurement of arms from the Office of the National Security Adviser.

Agbele was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on an 11 count, charge of money laundering involving the sum of N1, 219,000,000 said to be part of N4, 685,723,000 allegedly transferred from the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA.

The EFCC is prosecuting Metuh and his firm, Destra Investments Limited, on seven counts of money laundering involving allegations of receiving N400m fraudulently from the Office of the National Security Adviser in 2014.

Not exact matches

Deutsche Bank was fined earlier this year as part of a Russian money - laundering scheme that involved its Moscow, New York, and London branches.

One of Trump's real - estate advisers in the early 2000s, the Russia - born businessman Felix Sater, was accused nearly two decades ago of being a co-conspirator in a $ 40 million fraud and money laundering scheme involving four Mafia families.

He suggested that there would be a violation of campaign finance laws if Trump and Cohen structured the payment «in a way to avoid detection or in an effort to make it appear to be something that it was not, namely, a retainer payment as opposed to $ 130,000 reimbursement, that may involve money laundering depending on how it was handled.»

Regulators say the main focus of the new rules is to avoid money laundering and other illicit activities that were previously involved with Bitcoin.

The Chinese yuan is reportedly used for approximately 80 percent of global transactions involving bitcoin, with much indication that it is being used to illegally launder money out of the country.

And, as United States Attorney from the Eastern District of New York, she was involved in two high profile financial fraud cases, one in which Citicorp paid $ 7 billion in settlement for its role in the mortgage - backed securities fraud, and one in which HSBC paid $ 1.7 billion and took a deferred prosecution agreement for facilitating money - laundering.

AUSTRAC will up the ante in its case against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, with the transactions regulator expecting to file fresh allegations on Thursday that it breached the law 100 additional times while facilitating banking by criminal syndicates involved in money laundering and terrorist financing.

Tove Ryding, a tax coordinator for Eurodad, told CNBC she wasn't surprised by Germany's ranking and money laundering risk, given the number of recent scandals involving German banks including Deutsche Bank, which was fined by South African anti-money laundering regulators in February, and saw investigations launched over alleged money laundering for Russian clients in June.

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.

Money laundering, mysterious owners, lack of funds, and possible yakuza connections are all involved.

Fintiri is accused, in the charge marked: FHC / ABJ / CB / CB / 131/2016, of engaging in money laundering activities involving a cumulative sum of over N1billion.

Justice Dimgba gave the order shortly after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission re-arraigned Turaki and three companies on 32 counts of money laundering offences involving about N37bn.

A Federal High Court in Abuja has remanded the former Governor of Jigawa State, Saminu Turaki, in Kuje Prison, Abuja, over money laundering offences involving about N37bn.

Investigators, who have been analysing the documents for the past year, have found links to a billion - dollar money laundering ring involving close friends and family of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, had a case to answer in respect of the money laundering charges involving the sums of N400m and $ 2m instituted against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Sambo Maina, a prosecution witness in a case of money laundering and false declaration of assets involving a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National...

The House passed the bill that would require the Treasury secretary to report to Congress on any U.S. or foreign financial institutions that are involved in financing the purchase or export of aircraft on behalf of Iran, and to certify that such transactions pose no money - laundering or terrorism - financing risk.

Iranian Aircraft Purchase Transactions — Vote Passed (252 - 167, 12 Not Voting) The House passed the bill that would require the Treasury secretary to report to Congress on any U.S. or foreign financial institutions that are involved in financing the purchase or export of aircraft on behalf of Iran, and to certify that such transactions pose no money - laundering or terrorism - financing risk.

Silver is scheduled to go on trial next week on seven charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, money - laundering and extortion connected with what the indictment terms «monetary transactions involving criminal proceeds» of at least $ 4 million.

Money Laundering: Ex-Gov Ohakim's Son Allegedly Threatens Prosecution Witness An unimaginable drama, on Tuesday, January 26, 2016, stalled the cross-examination of prosecution witness, Abu Sule in the case involving a former governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, as prosecution counsel, Festus Keyamo, revealed how the accused's son, Emeka Ohakim, had allegedly went on the trail -LSB-...]

The aircraft of the same Oritsejafor was involved in the scandalous and illegal arms deal and money laundering in South Africa.

More witnesses were presented by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, January 28, 2016 before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to testify in the ongoing case of alleged money laundering involving the National Spokesperson of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh and his company, Destra Investment Limited.

In Texas, DeLay's money - laundering case was not, despite his deepest wishes, thrown out of court and is now expanding into an election spending scandal involving the National Republican Congressional Committee and linked to the Abramoff case.

The first case involved a Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Ngwuta, who was charged with 14 counts of money laundering before Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court in Abuja.

WHAT: In 1986, U.S. Customs agent Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) went undercover to expose a money laundering scheme involving Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar by befriending one of his top lieutenants, Roberto Alcaino (Benjamin Bratt).

The plan is for Bob to assume the identity of a «legitimate» businessman with ties to the mafia (not too difficult when his actual family was involved), establish a money - laundering relationship with the cartel, and work his way up through Escobar's underlings until he gets to the boss.

Before long Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, problems with beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody.

A torturously complicated plot follows involving the suspicious suicide of a failing property developer, large - scale money laundering, and crookedness at every level of Scottish society, but nothing's really at stake.

I've advised private equity groups who manage hundreds of millions of dollars and have been involved with several fraud AND money laundering investigations.

In 2012, our report Grave Secrecy revealed an alleged money laundering scheme involving billions of dollars in suspicious transactions passing through AsiaUniversalBank (AUB), Kyrgyzstan's largest bank with alleged ties to the former president.

Washington Free Beacon — 27 January 2015 Foreign Firm Funding U.S. Green Groups Tied to State - Owned Russian Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011....

White collar crime is a generic term for crimes involving antitrust violations, computer / internet fraud, credit card fraud, phone / telemarketing fraud, bankruptcy fraud, health care fraud, environmental law violations, insurance fraud, mail fraud, government fraud, tax evasion, financial fraud, securities fraud, insider trading, bribery, kickbacks, counterfeiting, public corruption, money laundering, embezzlement, economic espionage, and trade secret theft, and other forms of dishonest business schemes.

Bret represents clients in a broad range of complex criminal, regulatory and civil litigation matters involving international corruption and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, money laundering and export controls, as well as securities, healthcare, accounting and commercial fraud.

She counsels and defends on matters involving a wide range of issues, including the FCPA, the US PATRIOT Act, money laundering, environmental crime, Internet fraud and identity theft, tax evasion, bank, securities and tax fraud, customs and embargo violations, asset seizures, forfeitures and healthcare fraud and abuse.

These matters often involve allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption, market abuse and money laundering.

However, some of its members, such as Herman Van Ommen, president of the Law Society of British Columbia, believe only transactions involving physical cash qualify as money laundering.

Experts say real estate transactions are a popular way to launder money, in part because of the large sums involved.

A case before the society of lawyer Donald Gurney, who is accused of allowing $ 25 million in offshore money to flow through his trust account without doing substantial legal work for the client, is being treated as a violation of the society's rule that you can't be involved in transactions that may assist a client in doing something wrong — not as money laundering, says Van Ommen.

The recent rise of deferred prosecution agreements, as a hallmark of SFO case resolution (which may or may not involve allegations of money laundering), means that there are no prosecutions of the companies which may have received criminal proceeds.

The fight against international money laundering often involves powerful individuals who often happen also to be donors to political parties (this is an issue on the SFO's investigation into Unaoil, where some of the suspects are the members of the Ahsani family, who have also been significant donors to Conservative party funds).

It includes, of course, money laundering, but also fraud in its various guises: corruption, forgery, tax evasion, theft, and it spills over into financial regulatory areas involving market misconduct, such as insider dealing.

The Nigerian ban unfortunately merely leaves the use of crypto currencies in even cross border transactions involving physical assets based in Nigeria (for example real estate) outside the purview of Nigerian money laundering laws, the reporting and other conditions that enable scrutiny of transactions done with traditional currencies.

There were many other aspects of the Carrian case which were investigated, including the practices of some of the local banks, the Stock Exchange, aspects of extradition, money laundering, etc., and I was involved in most of those areas.

For businesses and regulatory authorities interested in rooting out corruption and money laundering, online investigative due diligence has become a crucial step — often a necessary first step — in understanding the reputations of individuals and companies involved in business transactions.

In a case involving a racketeering and money laundering conviction stemming from «spas» that were allegedly fronts for prostitution, appellate Judge Frank Easterbrook of the 7th Circuit chided the prosecution over an inflated calculation of proceeds from the operation.

WHITE COLLAR CRIME Dennis has acted in some of Australia's most complex fraud matters involving global financial institutions and has advised multinational banks and corporations on the practice and procedure of investigations focussing on fraud and money laundering.