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Over the weekend, North Korea accused the U.S. of violating the spirit of last month’s summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, by making “gangster-like” unilateral demands. North Korea has consistently offered concessions in exchange for economic assistance, though it has failed to satisfactorily deliver.
The scandal facing Danske was already serious enough but last week it intensified, forcing investors to take notice and in the final three days of the week they sent its shares down 5 per cent.
As Afghanistan edged ever closer to becoming a narco-state five years ago, a team of veteran U.S. officials in Kabul presented the Obama administration with a detailed plan to use U.S.
According to information available to BILD, the Iranian regime intends to fly 300 million euros in cash from Germany to Iran. The background is that, in the coming months, strict US sanctions against the Iranian financial sector will come into effect. The mullahs are worried that they will run out of cash.
Danske Bank, Denmark’s leading financial services group, is under investigation by Danish authorities for multiple cases of money laundering through its Talinn-based branch, Danske Bank Estonia (DBE), between 2007 to 2015.
In Germany and France, the authorities thwarted terrorists’ plots to attack with the deadly poison ricin. In eastern Syria, the Islamic State continued its retreat under stepped-up assaults by Kurdish militia and Iraqi pilots.
A former mayor of Greece's second-largest city has been convicted of money laundering related to the embezzlement of city funds and sentenced to eight years in prison.
Financial services companies, in particular banks, are racing to harness the potential of artificial intelligence. Lenders are employing algorithms that analyze consumer data to conduct credit scoring and determine appropriate loan amounts, and AI tools examining customer transaction habits are improving fraud alerts and reducing money-laundering risk.
A daily roundup of corruption news from across the web, including details about bribery, fraud, money laundering, sanctions, whistleblowers, and general anti-corruption.
The New Zealand Court of Appeal has upheld the decision that German-Finnish internet mogul and Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom can be extradited to the United States for prosecution on criminal copyright infringement and related charges.