A crackdown on Dutch financial gatekeepers who fail to comply with anti-money laundering rules is handing investigators in the Netherlands a cache of useful leads.
ACAMS moneylaundering.com recently spoke with officials from the FBI's kleptocracy squad about the unparalleled cooperation and inevitable difficulties in following the money.
Follow the headlines and you'll find an all too common story: the political winds shift, a leader is deposed and a fortune in dirty money is uncovered in a warren of offshore accounts. But why did no one stop the plundering sooner?
The American Bar Association is crafting a voluntary best practices program for lawyers based on international anti-money laundering standards, say speakers at an organization conference in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. Justice Department, in an indictment unsealed Thursday, accused Ben Kuehne and two other individuals of helping to disguise the origin of more than $5 million in payments from a narcotics trafficker to his defense attorney.
A new front in the United States' anti-money laundering enforcement war is the gatekeepers' initiative, a set of proposals that would require lawyers in certain cases to file suspicious activity reports similar to those required of U.S. banks.