Tuesday, October 23, 2012

IRANIAN OPPOSITION GROUP SAYS IRAN IS EVADING SANCTIONS THROUGH AUSTRIA

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An Iranian opposition group with ties to the United States has advised that the sanctioned Iranian entity, The Centre for Innovation and...

NON-FINANCIAL BUSINESSES NEED COMPLIANCE, TOO

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Every month, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, OFAC, publishes its current Fines & Penalties information, where fines, some of ...
Monday, October 22, 2012

POLICE CLASH WITH PROTESTORS IN PANAMA, AND RIOTING AND LOOTING FOLLOW

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Protesters, objecting to a controversial new Panamanian law that enables the government to sell valuable state-owned land in the Colón F...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

FARC BOMBED IN COLOMBIA BY PANAMANIAN FORCES ?

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Frontier between Panama and Colombia A Colombian source, known to have access to non-public information about the FARC, has reported th...

BULK CASH SMUGGLER RECEIVES EIGHTEEN MONTHS IN TEXAS

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A bulk cash smuggler, who was apprehended at the Mexico-Texas frontier with $21,000, and who had $169,000 stashed at home for future ...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

MONEY LAUNDERER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE IN CUSTODY IN NEW YORK

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Some money launderers are more hardcore than others.An individual being charged with two counts of money laundering, by the New York St...

RAISE COUNTRY RISK (AGAIN) ON LEBANON ?

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Just when you thought you had raised Country Risk as high as you thought prudent for Lebanon, something comes along to cause you to rai...

MONEY LAUNDERING THROUGH CUBA COMES OUT OF THE CLOSET

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One of the topics that the United States has chosen to ignore for years is the money laundering pipeline that exists in the Republic of...

WHO READS THIS BLOG ?

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For those who wonder where my readership comes from, in the order of largest number of regular readers, down to countries with only a s...
Friday, October 19, 2012

THE FARC CHANGES TOPIC AT THE PEACE TALKS

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Colombian Government negotiators The first session of the Colombian Peace Talks, between the Government and the FARC, being conducted...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

MEXICO'S PRESIDENT SIGNS NEW MONEY LAUNDERING LAW

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Mexican President Felipe Calderón has signed into law the new money laundering legislation that we have covered in an earlier article o...

CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND WARNS BANK ON AML COMPLIANCE

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Ireland's Central Bank and Financial Services Authority has issued a letter to the nation's banks detailing anti-money laundering...

FORMER SENIOR UBS BANKER TO PLEAD GUILTY IN FLORIDA

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A former senior banker at UBS, who was charged with Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, for allegedly selling tax evasion services t...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

WILL ELIMINATION OF EXIT VISA FROM CUBA FACILITATE MONEY LAUNDERING ?

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The Government of the Republic of Cuba has announced that. beginning on 14 January, it will not longer require its nationals to obtain ...

SWISS PRIVATE BANKERS EYE PANAMA

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Swiss reports say that some private banks and independent wealth managers are planning on moving their entire operation to the Republic o...