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 ...
Bookies describe threats by Bulger and his gang
When it came to business, James "Whitey" Bulger had one basic rule, according to two bookmakers who testified at his racketeering trial Friday: You ...
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 ...
Allegations of sex, drugs roil Baltimore jail
Inmates often complain of idleness, but Tavon White apparently had no trouble keeping busy behind bars. Investigators say the man nicknamed "Bulldog" ...
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 ...
Amnesty for undeclared dollars divides Argentina
A plan to get Argentines to pull their undeclared U.S. dollars from under their mattresses and out of illegal tax havens, and deposit them in the ...
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 ...
Argentina offers tax amnesty for undeclared cash
Argentina's government announced new measures on Tuesday intended to suck up undeclared dollars in response to growing pressure to abruptly devalue ...
Chicago case alleges ties to North Korea
A Taiwanese businessman long suspected of ties to North Korea and his Illinois-based son have been charged in Chicago with seeking to bypass a U.S.
Cartel money laundering trial begins in Texas
A multimillion-dollar horse racing and breeding operation run from an Oklahoma ranch was actually a front for a notorious Mexican cartel to launder ...
Feds in NY: Russian mob ran celebrity poker games
Nearly three dozen people were charged on Tuesday in what investigators said was a Russian organized crime operation that included illegal, ...
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 ...
Trial to start in Zetas cartel racehorse case
One of Mexico's most powerful and violent drug cartels intended a racehorse-buying operation to be a clandestine means of laundering its illegal ...
34 charged in probe of illegal sports betting
A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday accuses 34 people and 23 companies, many of them registered in Central America, of operating an illegal sports ...
French ex-minister admits lying about bank account
French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday decried an "unforgiveable moral error" by his former budget minister, who has jolted France's body ...
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 ...
Argentina: HSBC helped launder money, evade taxes
Argentina's government on Monday accused the British banking giant HSBC of facilitating money laundering and tax evasion. Tax chief Ricardo Echegaray ...
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 ...
US seizes 2,200 pieces of artwork in NJ
The massive trove of artwork arrived in New Jersey last year from Texas on an 18-wheeler — its contents a mystery. After five days of inventory, the ...
Costa Rica toughens stance in US-backed drug fight
On a recent Friday morning at a gleaming new international airport in Costa Rica, hundreds of tourists from New York and Minnesota emerged blinking ...
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 ...
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