7 h. ago Businessman jailed for exploiting Ukraine war effort for £6.7m money laundering operation

Valeriy Popovych used his business shipping vehicles to Ukraine as a front for a £6.7m money laundering operation

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3 d. ago Lebanon's new central bank chief vows to fight money launduring and terrorism funding

Lebanon’s new central bank governor has vowed that the institution will fight money laundering and the financing of terrorism and will work independently away from political intervention

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5 d. ago Fox News’ Harris Faulkner torched over ‘ridiculous’ demand that ‘401(k) people’ treat Trump’s tariffs like ‘war effort’

‘There is no reason to carry water for Trump on this nonsense,’ former Fox News contributor Jonah Goldberg reacted to Faulkner’s remarks

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5 d. ago Turkish barber shops police crackdown: Cops raid dozens of businesses being run as front for money laundering and seize hundreds of thousands of pounds in dirty cash

Bodycam footage shows West Mercia officers smashing their way into the businesses which are increasingly used as fronts by criminal gangs.

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5 d. ago UK's most DANGEROUS gangsters revealed: Britain's FBI reveals which criminals pose the biggest threat to our security as they wield control over money laundering, drug smuggling and human trafficking

EXCLUSIVE: The NCA revealed that mobsters from the country pose the biggest foreign organised crime threat to the UK, a finding that's taken even experts by surprise.

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6 d. ago Britain's most dangerous gangsters: Why Chinese criminals now pose biggest threat to UK security as they wield control over money laundering, drug smuggling and human trafficking

EXCLUSIVE: The NCA revealed that mobsters from the country pose the biggest foreign organised crime threat to the UK, a finding that's taken even experts by surprise.

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7 d. ago US sanctions Sinaloa Cartel associates for alleged money laundering

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned six people and seven companies it said were involved in money laundering for factions of the Sinaloa Cartel

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7 d. ago The truth behind why Turkish barber shops are used by criminal gangs for money laundering as police launch probe into boom on Britain's high streets

EXCLUSIVE: Drugs expert Gary Carroll said there was a 'copycat' aspect to the use of Turkish barber shops for money laundering.

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7 d. ago Thieves and Wooster! Bad butler jailed for stealing more than £200,000 worth of jewellery and luxury goods from his employer

Andrew Stothard, 42, of Market Place, Hull, admitted theft, fraud by false representation and money laundering. He was jailed for three-and-a-half years at Swindon Crown Court this week.

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8 d. ago The great crypto crackdown: Police have frozen up to £6MILLION of digital currencies since getting powers to stop criminals funding terrorism and laundering ill

Criminals have been increasingly using digital currencies such as Bitcoin to launder money, dodge taxes and fund terrorism. Ministers last April launched a crackdown on the 'emerging threat'.

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1 week ago The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark’s self

The Black Swan follows a repentant master criminal as she sets up corrupt clients in front of hidden cameras. But is she really reformed – and is the director up to his own tricks?The trap was laid in a rented office: two rooms in downtown Copenhagen, furnished without a whisper of Scandi style. If it wasn’t for a Frida Kahlo print on one wall, the premises might have felt as impersonal and stark as a confessional. That, in any event, was what it became. For six months, beginning in mid-2022, a parade of people – members of motorcycle gangs, entrepreneurs, lawyers, real-estate barons, politicians – trooped through to recount their sins to Amira Smajic. They didn’t come for expiation. They knew Smajic to be one of them – an outlaw, and in her particular case, a business lawyer so skilled at laundering money that she’d enabled a couple of billion kroner in financial crime over the previous decade. They called her the Ice Queen, because she showed not a flicker of regret for what she d...

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1 week ago Biggest international organised crime threat to UK revealed by top investigators

Chinese offenders are linked to cyber, drugs, fraud, modern slavery and human trafficking crimes, while other nations, including North Korea, are committing offences such as money laundering

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2 w. ago Ukraine accuses Moscow of ‘hollow statements about peace’ after latest attack

Ukrainian officials say 88 injured in missile strike as US and Russian officials start talks on ceasefire dealUkraine has accused Moscow of making “hollow statements about peace” after 88 people were injured in a Russian missile attack as US and Russian officials began talks that Washington hopes will mark the first step toward lasting peace.Seventeen children were among the casualties after the missile hit schools and residential buildings in the city of Sumy, Ukrainian officials said late on Monday, as Moscow appeared to be exploiting the window before any ceasefire to launch attacks on Ukraine. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago More than 100 people in Welsh town helped criminals launder money in exchange for gifts

"There were some instances where an individual opened a bank account after contact with the fraudster and then went on to tell their friends, ‘you can earn £50 if you open up a bank account and give the details to this person’."

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2 w. ago Nazis had more rights than Venezuelan migrants to contest removal, US judge claims

Court rejects use of Alien Enemies Act of 1798, ruling accused migrants must get hearings firstUS politics live – latest updatesAn appeals court judge claimed on Monday that Nazis were given more rights to contest their removal from the United States during the second world war than Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration.The comments came during a contentious hearing shortly after a lower court thwarted the Trump administration’s effort to deport the immigrants under a roughly 225-year-old war powers law. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Red tape warriors versus the red army: The EU's attempt to be an alternativer to NATO is as stupid as it is dangerous, writes NILE GARDINER

NILE GARDINER: For all his show of contempt for the West, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has one great fear.

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2 w. ago Man charged with money laundering after £1m found in suitcases at Heathrow

Mazen Al Shaar was stopped by officials on Saturday as he attempted to board a flight to Beirut

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2 w. ago Netanyahu is waging war on Gaza and on us – his ‘enemies within’. It’s the path to autocracy | Aluf Benn

Israel’s PM wants to ‘transfer’ Palestinians from Gaza, purge his traditional domestic rivals – and keep the right wing in power for everAluf Benn is the editor-in-chief of HaaretzTurmoil has hit the streets of Israel once again, as thousands of protesters gathered in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to oppose Benjamin Netanyahu’s dual effort to rekindle the war in Gaza, risking the lives of Israeli hostages there, and to dismiss senior civil servants who are struggling to halt Israel’s slide to autocracy.Early on Tuesday, the Israeli prime minister ordered the bombing of Gaza, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas and killing hundreds of Palestinians in the midst of Ramadan.Aluf Benn is the editor-in-chief of HaaretzDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Oligarch who 'masterminded massive money laundering scheme' that saw billions in Russian money pour into Europe and the USA is arrested

Former Moldovan MP Veaceslav Platon was arrested on Thursday in central London in connection with the 'Laundromat' operation that is said to have moved vast sums of criminal cash.

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3 w. ago Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war

The defense secretary has empowered his lawyer Tim Parlatore to remake the judge advocate general’s corpsThe US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is expected in the coming weeks to start a sweeping overhaul of the judge advocate general’s corps as part of an effort to make the US military less restricted by the laws of armed conflict, according to two people familiar with the matter.The changes are poised to have implications across the military, as Hegseth’s office considers changes to the interpretation of the US rules of engagement on the battlefield to the way that charges are brought under the military justice system. Continue reading...

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