Malta is back in the news about its CBI program, and again, the news is not good. Melnikov Pavel Eduardovich, a Russian national arrested in Finland, allegedly the head of a crime syndicate, has held ...
The Director of the UK National Crime Agency (NCA), Donald Toon, has publicly accused the Government of the Cayman Islands of failing to cooperate when asked for information on beneficial ownership. ...
Lest you believe that misconduct and crime, in the administration of Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programs, is limited to those conducted by the East Caribbean states, look at the programs being ...
The recent arrest, of a career criminal from Pakistan, known to be the personal assistant to one of the world's most wanted fugitives from justice, has again spotlighted the dark fact that he is yet ...
Malta is back in the news about its CBI program, and again, the news is not good. Melnikov Pavel Eduardovich, a Russian national arrested in Finland, allegedly the head of a crime syndicate, has held ...
The Director of the UK National Crime Agency (NCA), Donald Toon, has publicly accused the Government of the Cayman Islands of failing to cooperate when asked for information on beneficial ownership. ...
Lest you believe that misconduct and crime, in the administration of Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programs, is limited to those conducted by the East Caribbean states, look at the programs being ...
The recent arrest, of a career criminal from Pakistan, known to be the personal assistant to one of the world's most wanted fugitives from justice, has again spotlighted the dark fact that he is yet ...
Industry reports confirm that the European Commissioner for Justice, Vera Jourová, has made a public announcement that the upcoming agency report on Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programs has been ...
The publication of Europol's European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2018 has focused attention upon*, among other issues, the actions of Lebanese money launderers performing illicit ...
Our recent article regarding the fact that an Indian purchaser of a CBI passport from Antigua & Barbuda apparently was never informed that acquisition resulted in severe consequences, is not a ...
A United Kingdom bank that was onboarding new clients, via automated compliance checks, has reportedly discovered potential money laundering activity. What's wrong with this picture? Given that money ...
The BVI government's perennial position, that it will not release to the public a register of beneficial owners of BVI companies until other jurisdictions follow suit, has just lost that argument. ...
The European Banking Authority has issued a lengthy Recommendation, directed to the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit of Malta, involving its major AML/CFT failures regarding Pilatus Bank. The ...
The shape of things to come may be compliance officers going after their own bank when executives ignore their valid compliance warnings and concerns. The latest case involves a private banker, at a ...
The infiltration into governments of the majority of major Spanish municipalities by Podemos, a far-left political party, financially supported by both Venezuela and Iran, has resulted in a major ...
We note that the Government of St. Kitts has reported that it has taken in 1200 applicants for its low-cost $150,000 Hurricane Relief CIU (CBI) Program. At the same time, the Government of Cyprus ...