“Take the money and run, and blame someone else” – a digital currency exchange founder’s exit strategy

Tweet The brother A criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of New York and deposed by a special agent of the FBI against Konstantin Ignatov, an executive who helped operate a digital currency company called OneCoin and a digital currency exchange, sheds some light on the murky world of OneCoin. The money From 2014 […]

8 questions you may have had about the movie “The Laundromat” and yes, there are British Columbia connections

Tweet Part 1 – Background Skip this Part 1 if you know about Mossack Fonseca and shell and shelf companies. The movie The Laundromat is about lawyers and big law firms and the system that fuels offshore money movements, often involving the proceeds of crime. The movie is about a big law firm called Mossack Fonseca that […]

Canadian money launderer from Vancouver loses another appeal in Hong Kong; ordered deported to India to face drug trafficking charges

Tweet A Canadian man, originally from China, who is a convicted money launderer, lost a second appeal in the Hong Kong Court of Appeal two weeks ago, to prevent his deportation to India to face trial for drug trafficking. Xie Jing Feng, whom we wrote about here, appealed decisions for his removal on the ground […]

Mexican national with alleged ties to money laundering, is fighting to re-enter Vancouver

Tweet The Vancouver Sun has an interesting story here about an immigration case in the Federal Court of Canada involving alleged money laundering of a politically exposed person (“PEP“) with ties to the leader of a Mexican political party called the National Action Party. Sergio Antonio Reyes Garcia, a Mexican national, arrived in Vancouver on […]

American ICO lawyer and chairman of Vancouver Blockchain pubco, arrested for extortion

Tweet The FBI arrested Steven Nerayoff, a US lawyer known for his work on advising ICOs (allegedly including the first ICO issued by Toronto’s Ethereum and Ethereum’s second ICO, The DAO), and charged him with extortion. According to the complaint, Nerayoff was retained by the Seattle company to assist it to launch an ICO for […]

Dominican Republic alleged drug kingpin Caesar Peralta and his close ties to federal government officials

Tweet On August 20, the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC“) designated Caesar Emilio Peralta, a national from the Dominican Republic and the criminal organization he is said to control, as significant narcotics traffickers and a drug kingpin under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. Alleged money launderer and trafficker Peralta is known as […]

York Regional & Italian police take down alleged major ‘Ndrangheta players and seize over $35 million

Tweet Calabria and Toronto York Regional Police, north of Toronto, Canada, made a major money laundering bust last week against the ‘Ndrangheta, arresting several of its alleged members including its alleged leader, Angelo Figliomeni. Figliomeni is charged with money laundering, directing a criminal organization and fraud. Another eight alleged associates of Figliomeni were arrested on […]

The Canadian: “[D]ude, we’re criminal drug dealers – what line shouldn’t we cross?” Explaining the Silk Road Money Laundering Case

Tweet 4th Anniversary of Silk Road founder’s Sentencing The end of May marked the 4th Anniversary of the sentencing of Ross Ulbricht, aka Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the now-defunct darknet marketplace website based in California, called Silk Road that operated on TOR, which brokered sales of illegal goods and services, including narcotics like […]

TD Bank sued over $7 million in diamonds stolen during a bank heist from a safety deposit box

Tweet While not a new case, this litigation is interesting for the fact that it discusses the practice of safety deposit box swaps to transfer assets anonymously, and the holding that there is no requirement that safety deposit boxes contain lawfully obtained property. IOW, under the common law, a safety deposit box can contain stolen […]

Study in China identifies areas in China where most money launderers originate and finds that the number of suspicious activity reports filed does not improve effectiveness

Tweet According to money laundering law empirical research from China, a person from Fujian (the well-known Triad land) is most likely to be a money launderer, and the study also found that the filing of voluminous numbers of suspicious activity reports (SAR), does not lead to improved anti-money laundering results across any sector or in […]