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Weekly Roundup: Citigroup’s Trust Links Draw Notice, ‘Elderly Woman’ Dupes Fraudsters, and More

An anonymous source told Barrons that U.S. authorities are investigating Citigroup's links to Heritage Trust, a Delaware-based company that managed assets for blacklisted Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov. More British telecom O2 has tasked an artificial intelligence-powered bot that sounds like an elderly woman with disrupting suspected fraudsters by keeping them on the phone as long as possible, the Times reported. More Swiss prosecutors finally obtained legal access to four email inboxes linked to private lender J. Safra Sarasin as part of their investigation into a corruption and money laundering scandal involving Brazilian state-run energy firm Petrobras, Gotham City reported. More...

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