Tweet Case Studies on Lawyers & Money Laundering Scott Rothstein The 50-year prison sentence imposed on Scott Rothstein in July of this year for running a US$1.2 billion Ponzi scheme from his Florida law firm, money laundering and stealing client trust funds, is the latest in a series of high-profile money laundering cases involving lawyers […]
Tweet According to this article in the Toronto Star, FINTRAC is working with the FATF to evaluate money laundering and terrorist financing risks associated with prepaid cards, mobile payment services and Internet based payment services. The FATF will be collating information from cases where mobile and Internet based payment services were used to launder funds or […]
Tweet The 2010 Report on Organized Crime published last month by the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada highlights current criminal markets operating in Canada. In any criminal market, the proceeds of the underlying criminal activity are laundered to conceal the origin of the funds. According to the report, the main criminal markets in Canada are: counterfeit goods […]
Tweet Canada needs to improve its anti-money laundering efforts in several areas, according to the 2010 Money Laundering Report published by the U.S. Department of State. Canada was among 61 countries identified as major money laundering countries in 2009. Others include Afghanistan, Austria, Brazil, Cayman Islands, China, Greece, India, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Lichtenstein, Mexico, Pakistan, […]
Tweet According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, prosecutors in the U.S. and UK are investigating the role of prominent Canadian businessman, Victor Dahdaleh as part of a bribery and money laundering investigation of Alcoa Inc. under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Mr. Dahdaleh’s London premises were raided and documents seized as part of the […]
Tweet The RCMP have charged four people from Alberta with fraud and money laundering in connection with a $60 million Ponzi scheme in which about 1,000 investors from Canada and the U.S. were allegedly defrauded. Garth Bailey, Murray Stark and Robert Fly were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering. A fourth person, […]
Tweet FINTRAC has fined Bharat Money Exchange Ltd., located in Surrey, British Columbia, $36,100 for numerous violations of the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act for operating a money services business without registering with FINTRAC or filing appropriate reports. Bharat was also fined for numerous failures flowing from its unregistered status, including failure […]
Tweet Dirty money entering the U.S. from foreign nationals The Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs released a special money laundering report today that describes four case studies of foreign politically exposed persons (“PEP“) who laundered money in the U.S. without detection. Two of the case histories have a Canadian connection. The 330-page report, […]
Tweet $485 Million Laundered to Vancouver and Elsewhere In a fascinating series of judgments from Hong Kong, six wealthy immigrants to Vancouver from China, who laundered over US$485 million through casinos in Macau and Las Vegas, and banks in Canada and Hong Kong, were ordered to repay stolen funds to the Bank of China. The […]