http://www.complinet.com Complinet Money Laundering (UK and International) RSS feed en complinet.com http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110740 Algeria's informal gold markets, known as the dellate are still widely used to launder money. Wed, 21 May 2008 16:50:46 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110734 A Bangladeshi man has received a five-year jail term, at Canterbury Crown Court, for tobacco smuggling and laundering an estimated £434,000 in criminal proceeds. Wed, 21 May 2008 16:42:06 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110733 Anti-terrorist investigators from Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police have seized a letter in Toronto that the leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers organisation signed, which ordered Canadian Tamils to send him C$3m ($3m). Wed, 21 May 2008 16:26:03 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110738 Brazilian prosecutors have opened an investigation into allegations of bribery, money laundering and corruption that Alstom, the French transport equipment giant, committed, prosecutors told Complinet today. Wed, 21 May 2008 15:42:44 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110695 Argentine police have raided 10 family homes, rural farms and brothels and uncovered a cornucopia of allegedly criminal proceeds. Tue, 20 May 2008 15:52:45 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110702 The Liechtenstein government has frozen funds worth €2. Tue, 20 May 2008 15:37:26 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110696 Police in India have claimed to have shut down a hawala organisation that made use of courier agencies after they arrested 12 people and seized 3m rupees (£36,268) from them. Tue, 20 May 2008 15:30:15 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110690 Police in Bangladesh have detained the leader of the country's biggest Islamist party on suspicion of corruption. Tue, 20 May 2008 15:16:55 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110698 Complinet has reinstated its "off-cuts" column to keep readers up-to-date with small developments in money laundering investigations, trials and other sagas from around the world. Tue, 20 May 2008 15:12:08 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110692 British police forces are warning money laundering reporting officers that criminals have taken to smuggling cash in bulk in the same way that they smuggle cocaine. Tue, 20 May 2008 15:10:52 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110652 Police in Colombia have seized $25m worth of properties from a paramilitary chief extradited to the US on drug trafficking charges. Mon, 19 May 2008 08:42:43 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110666 Authorities in the Philippines have arrested a US fugitive wanted for several fraud and money laundering cases. Mon, 19 May 2008 06:17:16 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110651 Prosecutors in Argentina have ordered an investigation into the finances of Felisa Miceli, the former minister of economy. Mon, 19 May 2008 01:38:24 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110649 A York businessman who masterminded a £4. Mon, 19 May 2008 01:36:38 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110647 A survey of banks in Spain's Valencia region revealed an average of 160 suspicious transactions identified per month, the president of Alicante's provisional high court has told the press. Mon, 19 May 2008 01:09:48 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110646 Agents from Colombia's national anti-money laundering unit have arrested five people on suspicion of washing millions of pesos through a livestock export business. Mon, 19 May 2008 01:06:16 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110604 The UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency, accused by the London Times of bureaucratic failure, went on the offensive yesterday at a press briefing which Complinet attended. Fri, 16 May 2008 13:03:09 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110595 Four directors of Barclays France have denied knowledge of any money laundering in connection with the bank transfers at the heart of the Sentier II trial, a court in Paris has heard. Fri, 16 May 2008 12:39:39 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110596 Security forces in Srinagar in India have seized Rs150,000 ($3,513) from a man from Pakistani-occupied Kashmir which was intended for militant groups that operate in Jammu and Kashmir. Fri, 16 May 2008 12:37:31 +0000 http://www.complinet.com/global/news/news/article.html?ref=110593 A judge in Luxembourg has placed Jeannot Biver, a once prominent barrister, on remand in connection with a money laundering investigation, the francophone press has reported. Fri, 16 May 2008 12:37:06 +0000