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Midweek Roundup: Former Swedbank Chief Acquitted, Senior FBI Official Secretly Aided Deripaska, and More

A Swedish court found Birgitte Bonnesen, a former chief executive of Swedbank, not guilty of fraudulently misleading investors and manipulating the market after reviewing statements she made in reference to the lender's anti-money laundering problems in the Baltics, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More Charles McGonigal, the FBI's former top counterintelligence official in New York, was charged with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in secret payments to advance the interests of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and a former Albanian intelligence official in violation of U.S. sanctions, The Washington Post reported. More U.S. prosecutors charged two businessmen, one Russian and one British,...

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