The Financial Organised Crime Agency that the government intends to establish will have the power to both investigate and prosecute, Finance Minister Edward Scicluna told Kevin Schembri Orland through an…
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A Paris criminal court recently convicted Equatorial Guinea’s vice president in absentia of laundering more than US$120 million of his country’s assets in France, and seized his ill-gotten gains. The case, initiated by…
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Members of the Italian mafia like to travel abroad – not necessarily for pleasure, but to make money. And the harm they are doing to European economies is often…
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Italy’s new Cabinet is now three months old. The Five Star Movement-Lega coalition, which was sworn in in early June, has been described as the first fully populist government post-World…
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While there are still plenty who fit the stereotype, the reality for many of the vory — the Russian “super mafia” — is a very different, and far more modern,…
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Financial.org has already signed up with the UK’s official company register as a real estate business in 2015. Clients of Financial.org, a UK-registered company that has attracted investors from countries…
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Christoph Reichwein, DPA, AFP | Police raid a cafe in Duisburg, western Germany, on December 5 as part of an international sting against suspected members of the notorious ‘Ndrangheta mafia.…
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THE National Crime Agency (NCA) last week deployed a new anti-corruption weapon for which there are high hopes: the so-called “unexplained wealth order”. It designated two properties, worth £22m and…
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