Reported by South China Morning Post (Summary shared below. To read full report, go to: https://amp.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3368197/singapore-nets-us862000-first-auction-money-laundering-case) Singapore has raised approximately US$862,000 from the first auction of luxury goods seized in its landmark money-laundering investigation, with a rare Louis Vuitton handbag generating the most attention. The limited-edition yellow monogram pumpkin bag, created through the fashion house’s […]

Reported by The New York Times (To buy book, click: Money to Burn: The Unvarnished Truth About Leon Black, Apollo, and the Rise of a New Wall Street.) William D. Cohan’s “Money to Burn” is less a redemption story than an autopsy, and that is precisely what makes it essential. The book charts the rise […]

Reported by The Bureau (Summary shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.thebureau.news/p/as-chinese-mexican-cartel-and-iranian) The Bureau’s latest investigation begins with a Canadian judge’s decision to make allegations of police corruption public, but uses the case to examine a much larger question: whether transnational criminal and state-linked networks have penetrated parts of Canada’s law-enforcement and financial […]

Reported by Zigram (Summary shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.zigram.tech/article/account-takeover-fraud-detection/) Account takeover fraud is becoming harder to detect because criminals can enter an existing account using credentials that appear completely legitimate. ZIGRAM’s September 2026 analysis argues that a successful login should no longer be treated as evidence that the legitimate customer is […]

Reported by U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California (Originally published via: https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/2-defendants-employed-la-area-homeless-nonprofits-arrested-federal-charges-alleging) LOS ANGELES – Law enforcement today arrested two defendants out of three total charged in separate federal homelessness corruption and fraud cases, including a founder of a Culver City-based nonprofit who allegedly misappropriated more than $7.5 million in taxpayer funds, and used this […]

Reported by Christian Berthelsen and Jill R Shah (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.ft.com/content/a3830162-2f40-46b7-8259-0db45fe2acef?syn-25a6b1a6=1) Two Chinese companies used Binance accounts to launder $61mn in payments for black-market Iranian oil and attempted to funnel the funds back to the Iranian government, US prosecutors have alleged. The justice department filed a forfeiture complaint seeking to […]

Reported by Gov.UK (Originally published via: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hundreds-of-new-officers-to-hunt-down-dirty-money-networks) Hundreds of new officers will be recruited to track dirty money, disrupt organised crime networks and seize criminal assets under a major new crackdown.    New officers will be deployed across police forces, the NCA and the CPS to follow the money behind serious and organised crime, including through Russian and other international money laundering networks.    The new investigators will focus […]

Reported by JOSHUA GOODMAN and ALANNA DURKIN  (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://apnews.com/article/maduro-alex-saab-guilty-plea-ac402258f242b2cc6f43684be3680713) A close ally of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is expected to plead guilty Tuesday in a federal case that accused him of bribing officials to win lucrative contracts to import food at a time of widespread hardship in the South American […]

Reported by Oscar Holland (Summary shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/14/style/singapore-money-laundering-auctions) Singapore is turning the proceeds of one of its largest money-laundering investigations into a series of public auctions, selling hundreds of luxury handbags, jewelry and other valuables seized from a criminal network. The 2023 operation involved more than 400 police officers […]

Reported by Laz Pieper (Summary shared below. To see full report, go to: https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2026/09/09/kyc-data-is-an-irresistible-honeypot-for-hackers-and-we-must-change-how-it-is-collected) The article argues that the way financial institutions and other businesses collect identity information may be creating a security problem of its own. Recent reports of a dark-web service offering more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s-license records, along with […]