A Bitcoin exchange owner, Giuseppe Bugge, was murdered in Guadalajara, Mexico, last week, possibly by a Mexican drug cartel. Bugge was ambushed by eight to ten men and over-killed with 140 bullets from AK-47 and AR-15 assault guns. Bugge operated a Bitcoin exchange called GS Crypto Currency Ltd. in Vancouver, Canada, that provided OTC services […]
According to a statement by Europol, police in Austria and Spain seized €4.5 million in Bitcoin and IOTA as part of a bust of a transnational criminal organization that manufactured and trafficked LSD and laundered the proceeds of crime. Europol seized €5.5 million in Bitcoin, €137,000 in IOTA, 10 luxury vehicles and €1.6 million in an […]
Canada once again a “Major Money Laundering†country The 2018 “International Narcotics Control Strategy Report†(INCSR) published in March 2018 by the U.S. Department of State identifies Canada once again as a “major money laundering country†along with a host of risky countries for financial crime, and is generally doing a lot worse combatting money laundering […]
Authorities in New York indicted a man alleged to be part of the Sinaloa Mexican cartel in connection with trafficking fentanyl in quantities that would kill 10 million people. Francisco Quiroz-Zamora, aka the “fat one” was charged under the Kingpin Act, which is significant because it carries a term of imprisonment of life on conviction. The […]
The Vatican is getting into the anti-money laundering enforcement business it seems, Â to save humanity and in particular, intends to go after the mafia, using the threat of excommunication to get their attention. The Vatican convened an anti-corruption conference with, inter alia, Scotland Yard, lawyers, Italy’s national Mafia prosecutor Franco Roberti, Rome’s Mafia prosecutor Michele […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its annual Worldwide Threat Assessment on May 11, 2017, from the US Intelligence Community and compared to last year, there are many more international threats to world security. The Threat Assessment from the US is a summary of all of the threats facing the US, and […]
1. Canada once again a “Major Money Laundering” country The 2017 “International Narcotics Control Strategy Report” (INCSR) published in March 2017 by the U.S. Department of State identifies Canada once again as a “major money laundering country†along with a host of mostly risky countries for financial crime such as Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, BVI, Cayman Islands, […]
According to several news reports in Italy (here, here and here), a whole family of the ‘Ndrangheta, an international criminal organization that originated in Italy, was convicted Wednesday of illegally operating online gambling websites after a three year trial called “Black Monkey”. Nicola Femia, his daughter and two sons were sentenced to 56 years incarceration collectively […]
An Ontario court has ruled that evidence seized from the car of a person alleged to be connected to the Hell’s Angels can be admitted at trial even when that evidence was taken ostensibly under one piece of legislation, but was intended to be admitted for an investigation under other legislation. In November 2012, Andrew […]
Organized Crime & Private ATMs According to a report by the RCMP reported by Radio-Canada, organized crime in Canada is using private ATMs to launder proceeds of crime. The RCMP estimates that at least $315 million is laundered each year by private ATMs and some of those are connected to the Hells Angels in Quebec. […]