Japanese regulators said in February that they plan to ramp up on - site exchange inspections - a notable position to take considering that the National Police Agency reportedly identified 669 cases
of suspected money laundering from exchange platforms between April and December 2017.
On Sunday, reports suggested that Allotey Jacob had been arrested on
suspected money laundering case but the British High Commissioner, Jon Benjamin debunked the rumors on social media stating that Mr. Jacobs had not been arrested by UK officials.
Over the past several years, FinCEN has conducted SAR narrative assessments to identify reports of
suspected money laundering in the real estate industry.
The FIAU sent another report to police in November 2016,
citing suspected money laundering payments by Keith Schembri's Virgin Islands company to Adrian Hillman, the managing director of Allied Newspapers Ltd, the publisher of the Times of Malta, which Caruana Galizia had reported back in March.
Police said Thursday 170 cases of
suspected money laundering linked to cryptocurrencies were reported by currency exchange operators in Japan in the six months through Oct. 1.
For example, «My retail banking roles have provided an excellent background for a career in fraud investigation as I am already trained and experienced in dealing
with suspected money laundering and identity theft ``.
Acting for a corporate banking customer, an English company owned by a foreign parent, in a dispute with the bank over the bank's right to freeze the accounts on the grounds
of suspected money laundering.
Banks will monitor the exchanges and can refuse customers if
they suspect money laundering or creating authenticated accounts.
Japan's police agency has said hundreds of cases of
suspected money laundering were reported from domestic cryptocurrency exchanges in 2017.
Regulation Just recently Japanese investigators revealed they had obtained 669 reports concerning «
suspected money laundering» tied to cryptocurrency transactions and domestic digital currency trading platforms.
On Feb. 23, Japanese cryptocurrency exchanges reported that 669
suspected money laundering cases have taken place in 2017, only a fraction of the 347,000 instances reported by the country's banks for the same period.