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Midweek Roundup: FinCEN Launches Ownership Database, US Senator Faces New Bribery Charges, and More

The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has begun accepting individual filings of beneficial ownership data but has yet to launch the digital interface third parties require to submit the details of multiple corporate clients in bulk, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More U.S. prosecutors issued fresh bribery charges against Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), alleging that he secretly and illegally used his influence to help the governments of Qatar and Egypt in return for cash, gold and other gifts, The New York Times reported. More The EU designated Russia's state-run diamond company Alrosa and Pavel Marinychev, the company's chief executive, the Moscow Times...

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