Reported by The New Arab Staff & Agencies (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.newarab.com/news/uae-extradites-suspected-cartel-boss-ireland?amp) Authorities in the United Arab Emirates handed over alleged transnational cartel boss Daniel Kinahan to face trial in Ireland, the Gulf country’s official media reported on Sunday. The 49-year-old Irishman allegedly ran a group out of Dubai that has been linked […]
(To buy book, go to In Order to Live.) Yeonmi Park’s In Order to Live is not a policy paper on North Korea, it is something more valuable: a firsthand account of what life under an authoritarian regime actually costs its people. Park, who escaped North Korea at thirteen with her family and later survived […]
Reported by UA News (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://ua.news/en/world/v-rf-zafiksuvali-rekordne-zrostannia-sprav-pro-vidmivannia-groshei-za-15-rokiv) In Russia, the number of criminal cases related to money laundering has risen sharply. From January through June, law enforcement agencies opened 1,145 criminal cases, which is nearly a third more than during the same period last year. This is the highest figure in the last 15 years. According to […]
Reported by FACT Coalition (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://thefactcoalition.org/just-the-facts-8-6-26/) On July 16, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-7) reintroduced the Disclosure of Tax Havens and Offshoring Act, legislation that would require American multinational corporations to publish expanded financial information on their offshore operations, known as public country-by-country […]
To BUY book go to: https://amzn.to/4w5RQbz Peter Schweizer’s Throw Them All Out is an uncomfortable read for anyone who assumes insider trading laws apply equally to the people who write them. Schweizer, of the Hoover Institution, methodically documents how members of Congress from both parties turned privileged access, from IPO allocations to stimulus fund distribution, […]
Reported by Benjamin J. Hulac (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/07/congress-advances-limits-on-stock-trading-stops-short-of-total-ban/) Legislation on the move would limit members of Congress from trading stocks while in office, positions that grant them access to information regular citizens do not possess. Before leaving for its summer recess, the House voted 232-198 for the bill, […]
Reported by Ken Sweet (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://fortune.com/2026/08/04/capital-one-trump-accounts-money-laundering-review/) Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021 after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend. The court filing is tied to a lawsuit […]
Reported by GEORGIA FEARN (Summary featured below. To read full report, go to: https://www.inc.com/georgia-fearn/visa-is-paying-2-4-billion-for-a-fraud-tool-that-watches-the-way-bank-customers-type/91383840) Visa is paying $2.4 billion to acquire BioCatch, a company that uses behavioral biometrics to detect fraud before a transaction takes place. BioCatch analyzes more than 3,000 signals involving how customers type, swipe, navigate websites and use their devices during digital-banking […]
Reported by FinCEN (For helpful takeaways from a pro, go to AML UPDATE.) The Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) assessed a $125,000,000 civil money penalty against UBS Financial Services Inc. (UBSFS) for willful violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), the primary U.S. anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism law that […]
Freezing Order by Bill Browder is a memoir and investigative account of his campaign to expose corruption in Russia and seek justice for his former lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky. Browder, an American-born financier who became one of the largest foreign investors in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, describes how he initially benefited from […]
