
Pope taps trusted prelate to oversee Vatican bank
Pope Francis took a first big step in reforming the troubled Vatican bank on Saturday by tapping a trusted prelate to help oversee its management, in ...
London police raid currency exchange bureaus
Britain's Metropolitan Police force says it has raided currency exchange bureaus suspected of laundering more than 3 million pounds ($4.5 million) in ...
Russian whistleblower death in UK 'not suspicious'
British police said Friday there were no suspicious circumstances in the death of a Russian whistleblower who was a key witness against Russian ...
Spain, Italy police break up hashish dealing ring
Spanish and Italian police have arrested 99 people in the breakup of a hashish smuggling operation led by Italy's Camorra crime syndicate.
Liberty Reserve's money laundering spotted in 2009
Costa Rican officials say the currency transfer firm Liberty Reserve first raised red flags in the Central American country in 2009 when authorities ...

Feds in NY: Costa Rica money biz a hub for crooks
When an undercover agent posing as a new client sought to register at the currency transfer firm Liberty Reserve as "Joe Bogus" from "123 Fake Main ...

7 charged in $6B online money laundering case
Calling it perhaps the biggest money laundering scheme in U.S. history, federal prosecutors charged seven people Tuesday with running what amounted ...

Vatican releases 1st report of financial watchdog
The Vatican took another step Wednesday to show greater financial transparency by publishing the first annual report from its financial watchdog ...
Romania orders retrial of football officials
Bucharest's highest court has ordered a retrial in the case of eight Romanian football officials who were sentenced to prison for tax evasion and ...

Swiss: 1,500 money-laundering cases last year
Unpaid fees lead to safe deposit caches of suspicious paintings and expensive jewelry. A foreign client's offshore deposits turn up possibly forged ...
Chicago case alleges ties to North Korea
A Taiwanese businessman long suspected of ties to North Korea and his son have been charged in Chicago with seeking to bypass a U.S. ban on the export ...

Greek former defense minister goes on trial
A former Greek defense minister strongly denied felony charges of money laundering against him Monday, the first day of a corruption trial against him ...
US: Russian mob ran celebrity poker games in NY
Nearly three dozen people were charged on Tuesday in what investigators said was a Russian organized crime operation that included illegal, ...
Spanish singer sentenced for money-laundering
A Spanish court has sentenced popular Spanish folk singer Isabel Pantoja to two years in jail after convicting her of money laundering. Pantoja is not ...

Ex-HSBC worker: bank information is 'scandalous'
A former HSBC employee fighting extradition to Switzerland for allegedly stealing and revealing confidential information about private Swiss accounts ...
4 former BizJet execs charged with foreign bribery
Newly unsealed federal charges accuse four former executives of a U.S. subsidiary of German-based Lufthansa Technik AG of engaging in a bribery scheme ...
French minister resigns in face of tax-fraud probe
France's budget minister, ensnared in a ballooning scandal over suspected tax fraud and money laundering, on Tuesday became the first resignation in ...

Cyprus OKs audit of anti-money-laundering policies
European finance ministers on Monday pushed cash-strapped Cyprus into accepting an independent audit probing whether the country's financial ...

HSBC profit drops after money-laundering fine
The HSBC banking group saw its net profits drop nearly 17 percent in 2012, as it counted the cost of a hefty U.S. fine it paid to settle ...
Greece: Former minister jailed for corruption
A former Greek defense minister was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday after a court found him guilty of submitting false income declarations, ...
US seizes 2,200 pieces of artwork in US
A federal prosecutor in New Jersey says the government has seized a massive trove of works of art that were used to launder money raised through fraud
ECB: Cyprus aid with anti-money-laundering control
The European Central Bank chief says a financial rescue package for Cyprus must be accompanied by close and continuous monitoring of its progress in ...
Greek prosecutors bring charges over DePuy deals
Greek prosecutors have brought criminal corruption charges related to state hospital purchases from DePuy, a subsidiary of U.S. healthcare giant ...

Russia likely to contribute to Cyprus bailout
Russia is likely to contribute money to a rescue package that Cyprus is trying to finalize with eurozone partners, the cash-strapped country's finance ...
Cyprus says money laundering allegations must stop
Cyprus says that international allegations it is a haven for money laundering amount to a "war" and must stop. Government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou ...