Money Laundering

Taxi driver ?told deliver sock and envelope with ?28k?

Derek Gallagher, aged 51, of 20 Church St, Drogheda, pleaded guilty at Limerick Circuit Court to handling or transferring money contrary to the Money Laundering legislation.
05/05/16
Corruption Problem: 
Money Laundering
Sector: 
Transport

Inside Slab Murphy?s multi-million euro, cross-border smuggling empire

TOM SLAB MURPHY said by security sources to be the former Chief of Staff of the Provisional IRA, used his family farm’s unique position straddling the border to amass a multi-million euro fortune through cross border smuggling
26/02/16
Corruption Problem: 
Money Laundering
Sector: 
Agriculture and Farming

O?Brien loses fight against sentence

Former businessman Breifne O’Brien has lost an appeal against his seven-year jail sentence for inducing others to advance millions of euro to him for investment in bogus property deals.
22/12/15
Corruption Problem: 
Fraud
Forgery
Money Laundering
Sector: 
Land and Property

Pressure grows on councillor John O?Donnell to resign

The Independent politician is fighting to save his political career after last Tuesday’s RTÉ Investigates programme. The programme alleged that the Kilmacrennan councillor asked for payment in return for helping out a fictitious windfarm company set up in Donegal.
12/12/15
Corruption Problem: 
Abuse of power
Corruption
Fraud / False Accounting
Money Laundering
Misuse of Public Position
Sector: 
Local authorities

Franz Beckenbauer investigated for corruption over 2006 World Cup

Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into German football legend Franz Beckenbauer and three others over Germany's bid for the 2006 World CUP.
02/09/16
Corruption Problem: 
Fraud
Corruption
Money Laundering
Sector: 
Sport

UKIP 'volunteer' faces US blackmail and money laundering charges

An aide to former UKIP leader Nigel Farage is facing blackmail and Money Laundering charges in the US.
16/08/16
Corruption Problem: 
Blackmail
Money Laundering
Sector: 
Political Parties

Bari, prosciolto il rettore Degennaro (Lum): le accuse di riciclaggio non sono provate

Bari, acquitted the rector Degennaro (Lum): recycling allegations are unproven. There is no evidence that Lello Degennaro has recycled dirty money at the Parisi clan. The prosecutor had objected the purchase in 2002 of an apartment-emphasis that would allow him to recycle 6 billion lire.
22/06/16
Corruption Problem: 
Money Laundering
Sector: 
Private Sector

Swiss police seize Monet and Van Gogh art linked to 1MDB

Monet's Nympheas Avec Reflets de Hautes Herbes at Sotheby's auction house in London in 2013 Swiss police have seized three paintings as part of a huge Malaysian Corruption investigation
22/07/16
Corruption Problem: 
Fraud
Money Laundering
Corruption
Sector: 
Executive/Government
Private Sector

Singapore seizes $177m as part of Malaysia corruption probe

1MDB is at the centre of a global Corruption investigation. The local units of Standard Chartered and UBS, Southeast Asia's biggest lender DBS and Falcon Bank were all found to have "lapses and weaknesses in anti-Money Laundering controls".
21/07/16
Corruption Problem: 
Fraud
Money Laundering
Corruption
Sector: 
Banking and Finance
Executive/Government

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