Football clubs and agents named as ‘emerging risk’ in money laundering report

Reported by Miguel Delaney (Excerpt shown below. To read full report, go to: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-clubs-agents-money-laundering-government-report-b2791065.html) Football clubs and football agents have been named for the first time as emerging risks for money laundering and terrorist financing in an annual government report, published on Thursday . The sport’s “hidden nature” was raised as a specific issue, which means […]

How a Russian national allegedly laundered $530M in crypto via Tether

Reported by Dilip Kumar Patairya  (Excerpt shown below. To read full report, go to: https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-a-russian-national-allegedly-laundered-530m-in-crypto-via-tethert) The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged Iurii Gugnin, also known as George Goognin and Iurii Mashukov, a Russian national residing in New York, with 22 criminal counts in a sweeping case that underscores the growing challenges of regulating cryptocurrency […]