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Norway’s $1 trillion wealth fund is cracking down on corruption risks and suggested that money laundering is one of the dangers it monitors in its portfolio.
ADDIS ABABA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a damp office at Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa University, doctoral student Hailu Geremew fantasizes about working on the nuclear reactor his country is now pondering building.
The Trump administration’s decision to pull out of the 1987 treaty with Russia on intermediate-range nuclear forces is a mistake.
Cybercriminals are turning to new technologies to launder their ill-gotten gains, including recruiting fake Uber drivers, shady Airbnb hosts and crypto conversion specialists via the underground dark web, experts say.
Paul Erickson, the longtime Republican operative who had a multiyear romantic relationship with accused Russian agent Maria Butina, was indicted on 11 counts wire fraud and money laundering charges by a federal grand jury in South Dakota, the Justice Department
The House Intelligence Committee’s new Democratic leadership will scrutinize “credible reports of money laundering and financial compromise” involving the businesses of President Trump and those closest to him, the panel’s chairman said Wednesday, in what will be one of several priorities as lawmakers open a fresh investigation into the president’s alleged Russia ties.
Even though jurors in the trial of the Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera have spent nearly three months in the courtroom, they seem to be in no rush to go home. In a day and a half of deliberations, they have already written four notes with substantive questions and requests for evidence, including one that asked for more than a week’s worth of testimony from three witnesses.
JPMorgan Chase has urged a London court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Nigerian government that argues the US bank facilitated the misappropriation of state funds amounting to $875m.
WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly approved a Middle East policy bill on Tuesday that included both a rebuke to President Trump over his withdrawal of troops from Syria and Afghanistan and a contested measure to allow state and municipal governments to punish companies that boycott, divest from or place sanctions on Israel.
House Democrats armed with subpoena power are vowing to follow the Trump money trail through the German lender Deutsche Bank — a target that Republicans say they want to investigate as well.