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Weekly Roundup: PDVSA Suspects Arrested In Panama, Wife of UK Banker Challenges NCA, and More

Panamanian authorities arrested a former banker for Julius Baer and a Colombian national on U.S. charges that they participated in a vast scheme to embezzle and launder $1.2 billion from Venezuela’s state-run oil firm PDVSA through Florida properties and phony investments, Reuters and Bloomberg reported. More and More The wife of a banker and convicted fraudster has filed a legal challenge against the U.K. National Crime Agency’s order that she demonstrate how she managed to acquire two properties worth a combined £22 million legitimately, the Financial Times reported. More A federal judge in Miami sentenced Marcelo Reyes Lopez, an in-house...

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