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Midweek Roundup: Disgraced Goldman Sachs Banker Describes 1MDB Scheme, New York Fines MoneyGram, and More

Tim Leissner, a former Goldman Sachs banker who pleaded guilty to facilitating the theft of billions of dollars from 1MDB, outlined in 10 days of testimony in federal court in New York how he and his ex-colleague Roger Ng, who is on trial for bribery and money laundering, orchestrated the transactions, the Financial Times reported. More The New York Department of Financial Services fined MoneyGram more than $8 million for failing to scrutinize a sudden increase in transactional volume and value between six domestic agents and parties in China from January 2016 through May 2017. More German prosecutors formally accused...

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