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Weekly Roundup: Mexico Investigates Former President’s Payments, Swiss Court Acquits FIFA Officials, and More

Mexico's financial intelligence unit is reviewing millions of dollars of payments tied to former President Enrique Pena Nieto for signs of illegality, the head of the agency said in comments cited by Reuters. More A Swiss court acquitted former professional soccer officials Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini of corruption tied to an allegedly suspicious payment that the former sent the latter in 2011, the Washington Post reported. More British companies played a central role in the "Bottle Laundromat," a scheme that allegedly siphoned at least $820 million of "hot money" from Russia through phony purchases of bottle molding machines, Transparency...

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