Reported by Owen Walker (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.ft.com/content/a81bc993-97fc-45d2-bd55-9dd32b5957d1) Singapore police swept across the city-state, seizing hundreds of millions of dollars in financial assets, a yacht and a fleet of luxury cars, all allegedly linked to Cambodia’s murky and criminal world of online scams.  Last month’s dramatic seizure of assets […]

Reported by Ron Lieber (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/business/charlie-javice-jpmorgan-legal-bills.html) What would you do if the federal government wanted you in jail and Jamie Dimon was paying your legal bills? Here’s what Charlie Javice did: She spent money on luxury hotel upgrades, extravagant meals and cellulite butter, a personal care product […]

Reported by FinCEN (Excerpt shared below. To read full NPRM, go to: https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/2025-11/FinCEN-311-Gambling-Establishments-NPRM.pdf) FinCEN has issued a sweeping Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that designates transactions involving ten Mexico-based gambling establishments as a primary money-laundering concern. Using its authority under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the agency argues that these casinos have been systematically […]

Reported by Max Kendix (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/chinese-state-linked-gangs-money-laundering-uk-vtv3f9krf) Chinese state-linked criminal gangs are using international students in Britain to launder hundreds of millions of pounds in cash, research claims.  The Chinese groups collect cash from street-level drug dealers and use a network of money mules to deposit it in […]

Reported by Reuters (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/chinese-fraud-mastermind-jailed-uk-laundering-bitcoin-2025-11-11/) The mastermind of a vast Ponzi scheme in China, which conned nearly 130,000 investors, was jailed in Britain on Tuesday for over 11 years for laundering the proceeds of the fraud into cryptocurrency now worth billions of dollars. Qian Zhimin pleaded guilty to two […]

Reported by Margaret Davis (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/shops-raided-money-laundering-barbers-vape-operation-machinize-b2862383.html) Barbers, minimarts, and vape shops are among the 2,700 high street businesses that have been raided in the UK’s largest ever crackdown of its kind on money laundering. Officials state that these cash-rich establishments, which have proliferated across British high streets in […]

Reported by Minister of Finance and National Revenue – Canada (Summary featured below. To read full report, go to: https://budget.canada.ca/2025/report-rapport/pdf/budget-2025.pdf) Canada’s 2025 budget marks one of the most sweeping crackdowns on money laundering and financial crime the country has ever announced. The move comes after years of criticism that Canada was too easily exploited by […]

Reported by Andrew Wong (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/3b-money-laundering-case-two-201225970.html) Two suspects linked to the $3 billion money laundering case spent more than $69.8 million on properties in London while on the run from the authorities in Singapore. The Straits Times, working with investigative reporting group Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting […]

Reported by Amazon As the busy shopping season approaches, stay informed with these tips to help recognize impersonation scams – when a scammer pretends to be a trusted company and reaches out to try to get access to sensitive information like personal or financial information, or Amazon account details. Tips to help stay safe: Always […]

Reported by Reuters (Summary featured below. To read full report, go to: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/india-crime-agency-attaches-anil-ambani-group-properties-worth-over-341-million-2025-11-03/) India’s financial crime agency has frozen 75 billion rupees ($853 million) worth of properties linked to companies of the Reliance Anil Ambani Group as part of a money-laundering probe, it said in a statement on Monday. The move relates to cases involving Reliance […]