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iBRIEFWorld-Check Intelligence Briefing
2009 Archive
1.
17 December 2009
An individual who is believed to run a multibillion dollar illicit financial network has been arrested by Indian authorities. According to the UKs Serious Fraud Office (SFO) he headed an organised crime syndicate which moved US$2.2bn a year across the globe. He is wanted in the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and the United Arab Emirates. A Serious Organised Crime Agency spokesperson described his associates and companies as having 'facilitated the collection and distribution of cash derived from a range of organised criminality'.
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30 November 2009
Pavel Lazarenko, convicted in 2004 of money laundering, was this month resentenced in a federal court in San Francisco. Lazarenko was Prime Minister of the Ukraine from 1996 until 1997. The federal appeals court last year overturned six of the fourteen money laundering counts. Lazarenko's sentence was reduced to eight years and one month from nine years.
3.
17 November 2009
A former state chief minister is accused by Indian authorities of siphoning off an estimated US$423 million dollars of state funds. The money was reportedly generated by kickbacks from the granting of mining leases and an electrification project across Jharkhand province. Some of the money was allegedly channelled out of India to the UAE. He was reported to have used the money to buy himself mines in Africa and properties across Asia. Two of the politicians closest associates are also under investigation.
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30 October 2009
he son of a former prime minister of Bangladesh and his business partner have been accused of sending money amounting to more than US$2 million out of the country without permission, and in doing so violating the country's money laundering regulations. In addition to the recent accusations he is a suspect in fourteen other graft cases, and was previously arrested in 2007 but later released on bail.
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16 October 2009
The Enforcement Directorate has reportedly issued an Enforcement Case Information Reportagainst a former chief minister to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act court in Ranchi. The Directorate has accused him of money laundering, diversion of state funds and making illegal investments abroad including the purchase of mines in Liberia.
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30 September 2009
The former first family of Taiwan are suspected of having channeled approximately US$45 million through Palau. Chen Shui-bian the country's president from 2000 until 2008 was in September 2009 sentenced to life imprisonment for corruption, forgery and money laundering. Reportedly the alleged millions may have been deposited in the bank accounts of the former president's children.
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16 September 2009
Nigeria has announced that they are to file charges against the heads of five of Nigeria's banks which had to be bailed out in a $2.6 billion rescue plan in August 2009.
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28 August 2009
An Israeli district judge who fled the country in 2005 reportedly to avoid corruption charges has been arrested in Peru. Although Israel has no extradition treaty with Brazil they have appealed through diplomatic channels for the suspect's extradition. It is alleged that the judge is suspected of taking bribes from a telecommunications company whilst serving as chairman of the Israel Electric Corporation's asset committee in 2003 and 2004. According to the prosecution he reportedly constructed a complex web of companies in offshore locations and used intermediaries to hide the money.
9.
17 August 2009
A jury has found Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson guilty on 11 criminal counts, including solicitation of bribes, wire fraud, money laundering, racketeering and conspiracy. "We have been reminded [with this case] that we are a nation of laws, and not men," said the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. "It should be a clear signal that no public official – and certainly not a US Congressman – can put their office up for sale and betray that office. It cannot be tolerated..." Jefferson is scheduled to be sentenced on 30 October.
10.
30 July 2009
Alberto Fujimori the former President of Peru has been convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to seven years and six months in prison. Fujimori reportedly admitted illegally paying his spy chief $15 million in government funds.
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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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