Friday, August 9, 2013

COURT FINDS ACCUSED CARTEL MONEY LAUNDERING ATTORNEY COMPETENT FOR TRIAL IN EL PASO

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A Federal Judge in Texas has found an accused  money launderer, El Paso attorney Marco Antonio Delgado, competent to stand trial in two ...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

FEDERAL JUDGE HOLDS THAT BITCOIN IS MONEY AND BITCOIN INVESTMENT PROGRAMS ARE SECURITIES

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The federal case involving a Ponzi scheme, which employed an investment in Bitcoins, that we recently covered here*, has resulted in som...

KURDISH REGIONAL GOVERNMENT OPERATION TO SHIP CRUDE OIL THROUGH IRAN OPPOSED BY US AND IRAQ

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The announcement this week, that the KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) has entered into an agreement, whereby a substantial portion t...

US MILITARY ASSISTANCE IN ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING INVESTIGATIONS COULD IMPROVE ENFORCEMENT

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A number of commentators have expressed displeasure with this week's disclosure* regarding the participation of the US Army 's S...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

ALERT FOR POSSIBLE COMPRESSION ERRORS IN YOUR SCANNED COPIES

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Tech websites are talking today about the fact that users of multifunction copiers* are finding altered copies, reportedly due to flaws...

ARRESTED CORRUPT CHINESE PEPS HAD VILLA IN FRANCE, MANAGED BY MURDERED BRITISH BUSINESSMAN NEIL HEYWOOD

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The evidence regarding a €2m villa in Cannes confirms that the owners were Gu Kaili, convicted of the murder of British Businessman N...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

FOUR MILLION TONS OF FOOD AND MEDICINE AT IRANIAN CUSTOMS VERIFIES UTTER FAILURE OF INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS

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A routine report, appearing in Middle Eastern media, verifying that that there are no less than four million tons of food and medicine,...
Monday, August 5, 2013

WILL EXPOSURE OF ILLEGAL ACTIONS OF DEA COVERT UNIT THREATEN BOUT CONVICTION ?

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The brouhaha over the exposure of what may be unconstitutional, or even illegal, information gathering activities of a classified DEA un...

SPANISH THREATS SHOULD NOT INTERFERE WITH GIBRALTAR'S FINANCIAL SERVICE INDUSTRY

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Lest you believe that the recent actions taken by the Government of Spain; slowing down frontier transit, proposed fifty Euro crossing f...
Sunday, August 4, 2013

DO NOT FACILITATE MASSIVE SYRIAN MOVE TO DOLLARS

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The recent penalties announced by the Government of Syria, against the posting of prices for retail sales of goods in foreign currencie...

WILL THE UNITED STATES NOW FINALLY REQUIRE DISCLOSURE OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF CORPORATIONS ?

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Bipartisan sponsors have introduced 2013 version of a previously-filed bill, now renamed the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcem...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

THE PERILS OF BEING A WITNESS IN A MONEY LAUNDERING CASE

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The murder, by cyanide poisoning of an individual, who was reportedly originally scheduled to be a witness at the trial of Boston organized...

WILL PROPOSED US SANCTIONS ON IRAN WORK, WHERE OTHERS HAVE NOT ?

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Readers who are avidly following the progress, through the American legislative process, of the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act of 2013*, wi...
Friday, August 2, 2013

RAISE COUNTRY RISK FOR VIETNAM DUE TO DECREE BANNING NEGATIVE INFORMATION

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The Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Nguyen Tan Dung, has signed a decree that effectively bans any negative informa...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

FORMER US DIPLOMAT SUES VENEZUELAN PEPS FOR RICO, ALLEGING MASSIVE FCPA VIOLATIONS

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Ambassador Otto Reich Otto Reich, the retired US diplomat, and former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, has ...