ODFAC Deletions can be Confusing

3 July 2009 - For those of you who also look suspiciously at the removals from sanctions, published from time to time by the Office of Foreign Assets Control [OFAC], it might be well to remember that there can also be valid reasons why the names of entities have been deleted. Whilst it is perfectly norm ...more

American Money Laundering Expert Pardone...

2 July 2009 - Russian-American attorney Emmanuel Zeltser, who was convicted and imprisoned on arrival in Belarus last year, on what most have described as politically motivated charges, has been reportedly pardoned and freed by the authorities there. Zeltser, a specialist in  money laundering matters, had be ...more

Fraudsters can pose a direct threat thro...

1 July 2009 - There are persistent media reports that a major American fraudster, currently under an indictment which could send him to Federal Prison for the rest of his life, has worn a concealed microphone in a government investigation on corruption targeting an important governor, and his close asso ...more

Former TV personality receives minimal s...

30 June 2009 - A former news reporter in Kansas City who laundered more that $650,000 was sentenced this week to only six months' home confinement for Money Laundering. Does this sound like a lenient sentence to you? Whist she may have provided substantial assistance to law enforcement, there's not to ...more

Mega-criminal Bernard Madoff sentenced t...

29 June 2009 - A United States District Judge in New York today sentenced* disgraced securities broker Bernard Madoff to the sentence of imprisonment requested by the US Attorney, one hundred and fifty years, pronouncing him "extraordinarily evil." Madoff's attorney had requested that he serve only 1 ...more

CONFESSIONS OF A MONEY LAUNDERER BY KENNETH RIJOCK
Confessions of a Money Launderer - Part 89
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World-Check reports 25% client growth over pa...
World-Check has announced a further period of client growth since August 2008, adding over 800 new clients. Read the complete Press Release ...more
World-Check Chairman interviewed on CNBC
World-Check Chairman David Leppan, interviewed on CNBC's Squawk Box Asia. To view click here.
World-Check’s Organised Crime Research Unit p...
On the 29th of May the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) named the Haji Juma Khan organisation as a Specially Designated Narcotics (SDN) entity. World-Check'...more
World-Check Seminars July 2009
In July experts from World-Check and the compliance industry will be on hand to conduct three seminars in Western Europe. We will be in Monaco on 1 July and then travel to Germany to conduct a morni...more
Notification - New General Keyword - UNTB
Please be informed that World-Check will introduce a new general keyword - UNTB - effective from 4 June 2009. This keyword pertains to entries listed by the United Nations which have ONLY been the sub...more
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