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Weekly Roundup: Blacklisted UK Investigator Loses Accounts, ‘Untraceable’ Digital Currency Launched, and More
printWorld Check, a private sanctions-screening database owned by Thomson Reuters, apparently added U.K. private investigator Peter Humphrey to its blacklists after incorrectly grouping him with British pharmaceutical employees incarcerated in China for their role in a $300 million bribery scandal, the Financial Times said. More British law enforcement have arrested 14 people for allegedly using hundreds of U.K. and European bank accounts to launder more than Â?11 million stolen from retail banks using malware-enabled emails, the National Crime Agency said. More An Italian court will depose four senior employees of Bank of China's branch in Milan prosecutors say were involved...
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