Canada flagged around 2,400 money laundering cases involving lawyers 

Reported by Quinn Patrick, True North Wire Canada’s financial crimes watchdog has flagged thousands of suspected cases of criminal money laundering operations involving legal professionals.  Members within Canada’s law societies hold a unique window into how to aid criminals seeking to launder money gained from their criminal enterprises, according to a special report by Statistics […]

A must read: The U.S. Department of Justice criminal complaint about Iran’s plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump.

Three men, including an Iranian operative, were charged in a plot to assassinate a U.S. citizen of Iranian descent in New York. Farhad Shakeri, an asset of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), allegedly directed the scheme, using criminal associates Carlisle Rivera and Jonathon Loadholt for surveillance and planning. The IRGC also reportedly tasked Shakeri […]