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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Bankers kept their name tags obscured behind ties. Many tried to keep a low profile and avoided talking to the news media.
TALLINN, Estonia—It took a £1 payment to uncover one of the world’s biggest money-laundering scandals.
MOSCOW — The national security adviser, John R. Bolton, is in Moscow this week to explain to officials President Trump’s decision to pull out of a 1987 arms-control pact.
The murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi and the blatant lying about it by Saudi Arabia have forced a reckoning about how to handle the bilateral relationship. This is a genuinely knotty question. On the one hand, the Saudis have been allies of the United States for decades. As the swing oil producer, Riyadh has the capability to muck up global energy markets.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danske Bank, which is involved in a 200 billion euro ($230 billion) money laundering scandal in Estonia, processed a large share of the country’s cross-border payments between 2008 and 2015, its central bank said on Monday.
International campaign launched to clamp down on companies where the identity of the real owners is unknown, aiming to bring to a halt the getaway vehicles of the corrupt.
MOSCOW — U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser met in Moscow with top Russian officials Monday, less than 48 hours after Trump declared he intended to pull the United States out of a 1987 nuclear weapons treaty.
LONDON (Reuters) - Major economies should launch coordinated regulation of cryptocurrencies, the head of Goldman Sachs-backed startup Circle said on Monday, underscoring growing industry support for international rules on digital money.
The Trump administration is still in a "fact-finding phase" to discover exactly what happened to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, said Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner.
JERUSALEM — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday defended his decision to meet with Saudi officials this week, saying his trip was aimed at reinforcing ties at a critical moment, as the United States tries to ratchet up pressure on Iran.