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17 December 2021
UK’s FCA fines HSBC plc £63,946,800 for AML failings
15 December 2021
Swiss bank fined for AML failings, while ex-CEO acquitted of money laundering
charges, in 1MDB-connected money laundering trial
13 December 2021
NatWest fined £264,772,619.95 for AML failings
9 December 2021
Former Drug Enforcement Administration officer jailed in the US for more than 12
years for fraud and money laundering committed while serving with the DEA
9 December 2021
Bank of Cyprus fined €790,000 for AML failings
2 December 2021
Online casino Greentube Alderney Limited fined £685,000 for social responsibility
and AML failings
3 December 2021
Pakistan’s Federal Bureau of Revenue wins its first-ever case of money laundering
against a tax evader
30 November 2021
Wife of “El Chapo” jailed for three years in the US for drug trafficking and money
laundering
28 November 2021
Australian authorities allege that more than A$1 billion has been laundered through
poker machines in pubs and clubs
27 November 2021
Argentinian Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her son and
daughter cleared in money laundering case
19 November 2021
Hong Kong Monetary Authority fines four banks for AML failings
19 November 2021
Californian man jailed for three years for laundering US$13 million drug proceeds
through Bitcoin
18 November 2021
Swiss financial regulator reprimands two more banks for involvement in Venezuelan
money laundering
12 November 2021
UK’s FCA fines Sunrise Brokers LLP £642,400 for serious AML failings
9 November 2021
Former chief justice of Bangladesh jailed for eleven years for abuse of trust and
money laundering
9 November 2021
Head of Mexico’s FIU resigns over wedding party scandal
8 November 2021
Former chairman of Nigeria’s Pension Reform Task Team jailed for money
laundering
7 November 2021
LA’s Bicycle Hotel and Casino fined US$500,000 for AML failings
3 November 2021
China reports first case of money laundering using digital yuan
29 October 2021
Chinese-American “kingpin” jailed for 15 years in the US for laundering US$30
million drug proceeds
26 October 2021
Lincolnshire teenager who ran sophisticated money laundering operation has £2
million of bitcoin seized
22 October 2021
Cypriot company and South African law firm agree to forfeit £29 million allegedly
linked to money laundering in the UK
22 October 2021
UK’s FCA fines Credit Suisse £147,190,276 for financial crime due diligence failings
related to Mozambican loans
21 October 2021
FATF updates its list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring
20 October 2021
Swedish financial regulator orders Danske Bank to rectify its AML/CFT risk
assessment by end June 2022
14 October 2021
UK’s OFSI publishes its annual review to end March 2021
13 October 2021
Police in China crack 800 million yuan cryptocurrency laundering scam
7 October 2021
NatWest pleads guilty in the UK to failing to prevent alleged money laundering
6 October 2021
Chinese man jailed in the US for laundering money to fund the illegal trade in
protected turtles
6 October 2021
US lauches new Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team to tackle money laundering and
ransomware attacks
3 October 2021
ICIJ annouces latest investigation into leaked data: the Pandora Papers come from
fourteen offshore service providers
1 October 2021
Former MLRO of Pilatus Bank in Malta charged in her personal capacity over money
laundering allegations
23 September 2021
UK publishes first National Risk Assessment of proliferation financing
23 September 2021
UK online gambling business EU Lotto fined £760,000 for AML failings
20 September 2021
London solicitor fined and banned from compliance roles for ignoring AML
obligations
19 September 2021
South African Reserve Bank imposes financial penalties on two life insurers for AML
failings
16 September 2021
Welsh barber jailed for £90,000 romance fraud and money laundering
13 September 2021
Basel AML Index 2021 is published
10 September 2021
Maltese notary fined €61,573 for AML failings
9 September 2021
French court sentences Bashar al-Assad’s uncle to four years in prison for money
laundering and other financial crimes
9 September 2021
German finance ministry raided in money laundering investigation
9 September 2021
Stockbroker Richard Faithfull jailed for 5 years and 10 months in the UK for
laundering £2.5 million proceeds of investment fraud
6 September 2021
New Zealand authorities fine derivatives issuer CLSA Premium NZ$770,000 for AML
failings
4 September 2021
Durham-based drug-trafficking, money-laundering, tax-evading property developer
forfeits £850,000 to the National Crime Agency
31 August 2021
Reserve Bank of New Zealand fines TSB Bank NZ$3.5 million for AML failings
31 August 2021
Maltese authorities fine Pilatus Bank €4.9 million for AML failings
27 August 2021
Austria’s former far-right chancellor found guilty of corruption
25 August 2021
William Hill online gambling subsidiary Mr Green fined SEK 31.5 million by Swedish
Gambling Authority for AML failings
25 August 2021
Hong Kong customs smashes money laundering ring accused of smuggling HK$166
million over world’s longest sea crossing
25 August 2021
US sanctions Paraguayan money laundering network
25 August 2021
Danske Bank defeats shareholder appeal in the US over money laundering scandal
in Estonia
25 August 2021
Nicaraguan authorities accuse prominent journalist of money laundering
17 August 2021
Forty people jailed in Abu Dhabi for fraud and money laundering
16 August 2021
Maltese money transfer firm fined €502,000 for AML failings
12 August 2021
Bermuda Monetary Authority fines Allianz Life Bermuda Limited US$1.7 million for
AML and sanctions failings
11 August 2021
Reserve Bank of New Zealand issues formal warning to Westpac Banking
Corporation concerning AML/CFT failings
10 August 2021
FinCEN fines virtual currency exchange BitMEX US$100 million, in part for AML
failings
6 August 2021
Two more members of QQAAZZ cyber-laundering gang plead guilty in the US to
money laundering
5 August 2021
UK’s OFSI announces £50,000 penalty on payment service provider TransferGo for
beaching Ukraine sanctions
5 August 2021
CEO of US payroll firm jailed for fraud and US$1 billion money laundering
30 July 2021
Digital bank Monzo under investigation by the UK’s FCA for potential AML failings
30 July 2021
UK AML expert given suspended jail sentence and community order for money
laundering
29 July 2021
Nigerian “influencer” Hushpuppi pleads guilty in the US to money laundering
29 July 2021
UK to scrap national fraud reporting centre Action Fraud after failings revealed
27 July 2021
Leeds woman jailed for 34 months for laundering over £5 million cash
26 July 2021
El Salvador’s ex-president and nine other former officials charged with illegal
enrichment and money laundering
24 July 2021
Vatican reveals property holdings for the first time in a drive for transparency
24 July 2021
Female leader of Kent drugs and money laundering gang jailed for fifteen years
23 July 2021
Reserve Bank of New Zealand fines TSB NZ$3.85 million for AML failings
12 July 2021
UK’s FCA warns retail banks to take stronger action against financial crime
8 July 2021
EU to create new AML agency
5 July 2021
Jersey jeweller jailed for 7½ years for money laundering for drug gang
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