A job that isn’t hard to get in a pandemic: swindlers’ unwitting helper
17th September 2020
A job that isn’t hard to get in a pandemic: swindlers’ unwitting helper
After the fitness center where Denise Newton worked closed down in April because of the coronavirus, she posted her résumé online to look for a new job. She soon got a call from a company she had never heard of. The woman who phoned from the company, Heies, invited… Read More
FATF identifies red flag indicators to detect misuse of virtual assets
17th September 2020
FATF identifies red flag indicators to detect misuse of virtual assets
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has prepared a report on red flag indicators to assist financial institutions, investigating agencies and regulators in detecting misuse of virtual assets for money laundering, terrorist financing and other crimes. Virtual assets, which also include cryptocurrencies, are defined as a digital representation of… Read More
Drug kingpins, fraudsters and a jailed banker on leaked Chinese database
17th September 2020
Drug kingpins, fraudsters and a jailed banker on leaked Chinese database
Hundreds of Australian people smugglers, fraudsters, drug kingpins and a former Macquarie banker jailed for dealing ecstasy are named on a leaked Chinese database, pointing to Beijing’s use of organised crime figures for gathering intelligence and running foreign interference operations. The database compiled by military contractor China Zhenhua, revealed by The… Read More
Japanese crypto exchange accuses Binance of helping launder $9M from 2018 hack
16th September 2020
Japanese crypto exchange accuses Binance of helping launder $9M from 2018 hack
A Japanese cryptocurrency exchange that suffered from a $60 million hack in 2018 is suing Binance for “aiding and abetting” the laundering of some of the stolen funds. According to a complaint filed by Fisco in the Northern California District Court on Sept. 14, the Japanese exchange alleged that soon… Read More
First glimpse of new EU human rights sanctions
15th September 2020
First glimpse of new EU human rights sanctions
International perpetrators of genocide and torture, but not corruption, are to face new-model EU sanctions, a leaked document shows. Those guilty of crimes against humanity, slavery, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary arrests will also face EU asset-freezes and visa-bans. And those responsible for human-trafficking, sexual violence, and abuses of… Read More
Spain’s ex-PM Rajoy to be investigated in case of Andorran bank and ‘American friend’
15th September 2020
Spain’s ex-PM Rajoy to be investigated in case of Andorran bank and ‘American friend’
A court in the small European country of Andorra is to investigate former Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy and some members of his government in relation to coercion accusations, in a case which stretches all the way to the US government. The Andorran judiciary has accepted the complaint, filed by the… Read More
Italian prosecutor set for ‘historic’ anti-mafia court battle
15th September 2020
Italian prosecutor set for ‘historic’ anti-mafia court battle
After years of investigation, mountains of evidence and hundreds of suspects, Italy’s plucky anti-mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri is gearing up for a “historic” court battle against the country’s powerful ‘Ndrangheta clan. The first salvos in a court battle were fired Friday as a preliminary hearing against ‘Ndrangheta members opened in… Read More
Sim-swap fraud is on the rise. How can you stop it happening to you?
15th September 2020
Sim-swap fraud is on the rise. How can you stop it happening to you?
When the Twitter account of its own chief executive, Jack Dorsey, was taken over by hackers last year, a stream of tweets with racial slurs, profanity and praise for Adolf Hitler were posted for 30 minutes. Weeks later, the food writer and campaigner Jack Monroe lost £5,000 from… Read More
Brian Grendon gang has taken drugs crown from Kinahan cartel, say gardai
14th September 2020
Brian Grendon gang has taken drugs crown from Kinahan cartel, say gardai
Gardai believe the Kinahan crime cartel no longer controls the drugs trade in Ireland and has now been replaced with a gang led by Brian Grendon, a convicted heroin dealer from west Dublin, whose organisation is generating up to €5m a week. Grendon is presently the focus of Operation Compact,… Read More
Brazil freezes $43 million of assets in international drug trafficking probe
14th September 2020
Brazil freezes $43 million of assets in international drug trafficking probe
Brazilian authorities blocked assets worth 230 million reais ($43 million) as part of a probe into drug trafficking and money laundering in two countries, according to a statement from Brazil’s federal police on Friday. Some 42 properties, two farm estates, 75 vehicles, boats and aircraft were being seized in Brazil,… Read More
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