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Weekly Roundup: US Prosecutors Defend Settlement, Australian Bank Accused of New Breaches, and More

U.S. federal prosecutors said they had no contact with White House officials before agreeing in May to a $6-milion settlement of money-laundering charges against Prevezon Holdings Ltd., a Cyprus-registered firm linked to a $230 million tax fraud in Russia, RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty reported. More The outgoing head of the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office, David Green, told lawmakers the nation will retain its “aggressive” enforcement regime after leaving the European Union in 2019, Bloomberg said. More The Russian owner of the Brooklyn Nets basketball team, Mikhail Prokhorov, previously held 23 accounts at a now-defunct Tanzanian and Cypriot bank blacklisted by the U.S....

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