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22 Mar 2023, 9:29 am by Zamansky LLC
The Swiss government’s extraordinary support triggered a complete write-down of the nominal value of $17 billion of all Credit Suisse AT1 or CoCo bonds. [read post]
26 Feb 2023, 9:05 pm by renholding
 Last summer, after the Adani Group completed its $10.5 billion leveraged buyout of a cement business from Swiss firm Holcim, Gautam Adani boasted to the Economic Times that his “relationship banks” – Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and Standard Chartered Bank – had “fully funded” the deal. [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm by renholding
Finally, MIMF pursued a range of government program and procurement fraud cases. [read post]
16 Feb 2023, 7:23 am by Geoff Schweller
“This testimony is a good first step, but we must closely follow-up and make sure that the program is properly supported,” continued Kohn, who represented the leading Swiss whistleblowers who exposed billions in illegal offshore accounts from multiple banks, including Bradley Birkenfeld who obtained a historic $104 million award from the IRS. [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 10:18 am by Geoff Schweller
The Credit Suisse case is not the first time the Swiss government has chosen to go after a banking whistleblower. [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 1:44 pm by Amy Howe
Toth’s father put several million dollars in a Swiss bank account shortly before his death in 1999. [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 10:32 am by Bruce Zagaris
  Zagaris covered a webinar and book of the StAR and World Bank on Taxing Crime: A Whole of Government Approach to Fighting Corruption, Money Laundering, and Tax Crime. [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 10:32 am by Bruce Zagaris
  Zagaris covered a webinar and book of the StAR and World Bank on Taxing Crime: A Whole of Government Approach to Fighting Corruption, Money Laundering, and Tax Crime. [read post]
22 Dec 2022, 9:36 am by Steven P. Farmer and Mark Booth
The prohibition on holding positions in the governing body now applies to all entities which are publicly controlled or have over 50 % public ownership, or in which Russia, its Government or Central Bank has the right to participate in profits or with which Russia, its Government or Central Bank has other substantial economic relationship and the subsidiaries of such entities (whether or not listed in the relevant Annex). [read post]
4 Nov 2022, 7:56 am by OTy9gYz
In effect, ML risks in freeports are directly correlated to the ML risk in the substitute assets market writ large,[25] specifically in the art market.[26] Finally, ML is particularly pernicious as a terrorist and weapons of mass destructions financing threat.[27] A 2010 Case Study by the FATF and OECD reviews how a key suspect in the terrorist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) was able to successfully launder illicit proceeds using a bank located in a Free Trade Zone, the same zones which… [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 9:56 am by Ana Popovich
Motarjemi told WNN that she has been advocating for whistleblowing and supporting other whistleblowers like Stephanie Gibaud, who “assisted French authorities during the 2011 French Open in obtaining evidence on how UBS illegally courted clients in France to hide their assets in the Swiss bank. [read post]
The Swiss bank will pay 238 million euros, disgorging them of 65.6 million euros, with an additional penalty of 57.4 million euros. [read post]
29 Sep 2022, 5:55 am by Ray Salvatore Jennings
A joint August 2022 World Bank, Government of Ukraine, and European Commission Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA) puts aggregate losses in the country as of June 1, 2022, at more than $252 billion, with estimated reconstruction and recovery needs at $348.5 billion. [read post]
22 Sep 2022, 7:34 am by Geoff Schweller
The letter lists examples of individuals who had contacted TAFEF-affiliated lawyers but decided not to blow the whistle given the current state of the AML Whistleblower Program: “An investment advisor who knew of a Russian government official using U.S. shell corporations to move millions from a Swiss bank account to another bank account; A whistleblower with information regarding a sanctioned individual with ties to Russian and Belarussian regimes who moved… [read post]
The scheme itself had tangential jurisdictional links to the United States, including that a United States based messaging platform was used to transmit ephemeral messages using United States located servers, that a bribe was paid from a Bahamas incorporated company through the United States to a Swiss bank account, and that GOL made a SEC filing that falsely reported the bribe payments as sales and marketing expenses. [read post]
4 Sep 2022, 11:00 pm by WNN
Whistleblower employees have saved lives by exposing defective bullet proof vests, held Big Tech accountable by instigating the historic penalties against Facebook, freed wrongfully convicted individuals by disclosing misconduct at the FBI crime lab, and upended the illicit Swiss banking system by blowing the whistle on U.S. citizens’ illegal use of Swiss banks as tax havens. [read post]