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Midweek Roundup: ‘FinCEN Files’ Fallout Begins, Belarus Escapes EU Sanctions, and More

An unassuming office in Potters Bar, a small town north of London, is the official home of more than a thousand U.K. legal entities, many of which served as shell companies that helped move billions of dollars in suspicions funds around the world, the BBC reported, citing the FinCEN Files, a trove of records leaked from the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. More The Miami branch of Portugal's Banco Espirito Santo flagged more than $260 million tied to Venezuelan construction magnate Alejandro Ceballos as suspicious in 2013 and 2014, but he was never charged with a crime, the Miami Herald reported, citing the...

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