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2008 Archive
1.
15 December 2008
Shu Kio (UID 658915), the wife of Richard Yong< (UID 434020), the former chairman of Singapore's largest charity pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in a Hong Kong court. Yong was convicted and sentenced in September 2007. Yong was reportedly convicted of illegally transferring S$3.92 million (HK$20.13 million) into his wife's account in Hong Kong. His spouse is scheduled to be sentenced later in December.
2.
27 November 2008
This month the Panamanian government extradited a Colombian individual back to his homeland to face charges that he operated a pyramid scheme. The businessman faces charges of illicit enrichment and money laundering in Colombia. The scheme reportedly took more than US$200 million. Investigations continue and it is also purported that the scheme may have accepted money from narcotics traffickers and rebels involved in the civil war. World-Check’s research analysts are monitoring the news and will update profiles as warranted.
3.
17 November 2008
This month the Irish navy together with the Garda seized a yacht carrying more than €500m worth of cocaine which it is believed was destined for the British Isles. In a joint operation involving the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency and the Irish authorities in collaboration with the Operations Centre Against Narcotics in Portugal, the yacht's progress had been tracked from when it left the Caribbean over a month earlier. Authorities have stated that the three individuals arrested from the yacht are not known associates of organized crime figures. Investigations continue.
4.
29 October 2008
Earlier this month Rumen Petkov (UID 36394) the former Bulgarian interior minister was indicted. In April 2008 Petkov was forced to resign his post after allegations surfaced of corruption and mafia connections in his Ministry. According to reports Petkov has waived his immunity.
5.
20 October 2008
Late last month the trial started of the so called ‘Angolagate’ case. The trial features a number of prominent French political figures, and associates including the late former President's son Jean-Christophe Mitterrand (UID 10998) who has been charged with complicity in illegal trade and embezzlement.
6.
30 September 2008
Charles Taylor Jr. (UID 32829) the son of the former Liberian President is to go on trial in Miami Florida on charges of torture. This trial will be breaking new ground as it is the first time that such a trial will take place enacting the 1994 federal law allowing for individuals in US custody to be tried for acts of torture which were committed outside of the US. Taylor Jr. was arrested in 2006 for attempting to enter the US from the Caribbean on false documentation. In September 2006 he was sentenced to eleven months in jail after pleading guilty to the charge. Taylor Jr. is also known by a number of aliases.
7.
18 September 2008
Earlier this month the US Treasury of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated the Director of Venezuela's Military Intelligence Directorate Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios (UID 338081)) and the Director of Venezuela's Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services Henry de Jesus Rangel Silva (UID 337810) and also the former Minister of the Interior and Justice Ramon Emilio Rodriguez Chacin (UID 57171). The US alleges that these three individuals helped the narcotics trafficking activities of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which was in 1997 designated as a foreign Terrorist Organisation by the US.
8.
29 August 2008
The Swiss authorities have announced that they have now dropped the investigation against the late Benazir Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari (UID 12523) who is now the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party. In addition they have released funds reported to be approximately $60 million which had been frozen in Swiss bank accounts. Pakistan has also dropped all charges that it had initiated against Zardari, stating that Zadari and Bhutto could not be accused of corruption.
9.
21 August 2008
Earlier this month the former President of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bien (UID 4032) resigned from the Democratic Progressive Part (DPP). Authorities have reportedly launched an investigation into alleged money laundering activities concerning Chen and his family. This follows on the heels of the Swiss authorities taking similar action. In a separate case Chen is reportedly already under investigation for alleged embezzlement and his wife Wu Shu-chen (UID81027) is currently charged with corruption and document forgery.
10.
31 July 2008
This month the former President of the Serb Republic Radovan Karadzic (UID 7502) who in 1995 was indicted by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal, was captured inside Serbia. Karadzic was initially handed over to the War Crimes Panel of the Belgrade District Court. It has been reported that he has now been transferred to the Netherlands where he will appear before the Hague Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia. The UN war crimes tribunal has charged Karadzic with 15 counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other atrocities committed between 1992 and 1996.
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World-Check releases White Paper on Piracy
World-Check releases 'Piracy in the Horn of Africa' a White Paper by Rear Admiral Chris Parry CBE. With antecedents that reach back to classical times, piracy has sprung up and thrived in vari...more
World-Check releases White Paper on the Forei...
Titled “The FCPA and why it matters” this paper provides insight for multinational organisations into the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and highlights the basis for a sound compl...more
World-Check expert seminars attract 600 deleg...
Since July 2009 World-Check, the leading provider of end-to-end risk management services, has presented expert seminars in Monaco, Frankfurt, Madrid, Lisbon, Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo, Copenhagen, M...more
World-Check renews partnership with the UK's ...
Since November 2008, the World-Check database has been used in over 130 enquiries by the CEOP's financial investigators to ascertian background intelligence on child abuse cases. To read the full ...more
Jersey convicted narcotics trafficker profile...
Read the full press release to see why it makes sense to use the World-Check se...more
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