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The then Albanian President Ilir Meta speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Tirana, Albania, on April 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina, File)

Albanian ex-President Ilir Meta charged with corruption and money laundering

Former Albanian President Ilir Meta has been formally charged with corruption, money laundering, tax evasion and hiding property from authorities.
 
Karim Souaid, the newly appointed Lebanon's Central Bank governor, speaks during a taking office ceremony at the Lebanese Central Bank building, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon’s new central bank chief vows to fight money laundering and terrorism funding

 
The Treasury Department building is seen, March 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

US sanctions Sinaloa Cartel associates for alleged money laundering

 
Resorts World Las Vegas is shown under construction, April 19, 2021, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ken Ritter, File)

Resorts World casino in Las Vegas fined $10.5M in money-laundering case

 
The U.S. Department of the Treasury building is seen in Washington, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Treasury ends enforcement of business ownership database meant to stop shell company formation

 

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A former aide to New York governors and her husband face new charges in foreign agent of China case

 
The Supreme Court at sunset in Washington, Feb. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Supreme Court allows small business registration rule to take effect, aimed at money laundering

 
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, right, with his wife Bushra Bibi, speaks to the media before signing documents to submit surety bond over his bails in different cases, at an office of Lahore High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, on July 17, 2023. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

Pakistani court sentences ex-PM Imran Khan and his wife to 14 and 7 years in prison in graft case

 
Antonio Ledezma, former mayor of Caracas, waves to supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido during a gathering in Madrid, Spain, April 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Son-in-law of top foe of Venezuela’s president sentenced to 30 months on money laundering charge

 
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a visit to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in Vienna, Va., on Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Business owners should not forget anti-money laundering rule currently in legal limbo

 

UK dismantles massive money laundering operations tied to Russian oligarchs and cybercriminals

 
FILE - European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders delivers a speech on the electoral law, the investigative committee and the rule of law in Poland, Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

Belgian authorities open fraud probe into former EU justice chief days after his mandate ended

 
FILE - Former Backpage.com owner Michael Lacey attends a Senate committee on Jan. 10, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Backpage.com founder Michael Lacey sentenced to 5 years in prison, fined $3M for money laundering

 

Backpage founder Michael Lacey sentenced to 5 years in prison for money laundering in case involving prostitution ads

 
FILE- This June 6, 2019, file photo shows the U.S. Treasury Department building at dusk in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

New US rules try to make it harder for criminals to launder money by paying cash for homes

 

Peruvian politician Keiko Fujimori stands in probe accused of money laundering

 
FILE - Juergen Mossack, partner of the law firm Mossack-Fonseca, leaves the Supreme Court during the trial of the "Panama Papers" money laundering case in Panama City, April 8, 2024. On Friday, a Panamanian judge acquitted Mossack and 27 other people who were accused of money laundering in the notorious Panama Papers case. (AP Photo/Agustin Herrera, File)

Judge acquits 28 people accused in Panama Papers case, including law firm co-founder

 
FILE - Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek speaks during a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. Turkey on Friday, June 28, 2024, welcomed a decision by an international watchdog to remove it from a so-called “gray list” of countries that have not fully implemented measures to fight money laundering and terrorism financing. “We succeeded,” Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek wrote on the social media platform X, as the decision was being announced. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Turkey welcomes removal from a key money-laundering watchlist, hoping to boost foreign investment

 
FILE - Plastic newspaper racks for The Epoch Times, The Village Voice and other newspapers stand along a Manhattan sidewalk, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013 in New York. The arrest of an executive at The Epoch Times in a money-laundering scheme this week has drawn attention to a media outlet that has largely lived in the shadows between its founding in 2000 and a transformation during the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

What will become of The Epoch Times with its chief financial officer accused of money laundering?

 
Guatemalan journalist Jose Ruben Zamora, founder of El Periodico newspaper, arrives to court in handcuffs for a hearing in Guatemala City, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Zamora has been jailed for almost two years and seeks his release. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemalan court orders release of journalist jailed for nearly 2 years on money laundering charges

 
Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, enters the Federal Courthouse in Seattle Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Prosecutors are asking a judge on Tuesday to give Zhao a three-year prison term for allowing rampant money laundering on the platform. He pleaded guilty and stepped down as Binance CEO in November as the company agreed to pay $4.3 billion to settle related allegations. (Ellen M. Banner /The Seattle Times via AP)

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao sentenced to 4 months for allowing money laundering

 

Panama’s leading presidential candidate promises a return to better times

 

Treasury secretary heads to China to talk trade, anti-money laundering and Chinese ‘overproduction’

 

A money laundering watchdog removes the UAE, Uganda, Barbados and Gibraltar from a watchlist

 
FILE - Republican Illinois State Sen. Sam McCann speaks at the State Capitol on March 5, 2018, in Springfield, Ill. McCann continued funding a lavish lifestyle with campaign contributions even after the former legislator and gubernatorial candidate admitted wrongdoing under questioning by federal investigators, a prosecutor said Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, in the opening of a corruption trial he characterized as defined by “greed, fraud and arrogance.” (Erin Brown/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

Ex-Illinois lawmaker abruptly pleads guilty to fraud and money laundering, halting federal trial

 
FILE - The Treasury Department is seen near sunset in Washington, Jan. 18, 2023. The Biden administration is rolling out new recordkeeping rules for U.S. investment advisers in its continued effort to clamp down on money laundering, illicit finance and fraud in the American financial system. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Treasury promoting new rules to stop money laundering ahead of Europe meetings

 
FILE - The Treasury Department is seen near sunset in Washington, Jan. 18, 2023. The Biden administration is rolling out new recordkeeping rules for U.S. investment advisers in its continued effort to clamp down on money laundering, illicit finance and fraud in the American financial system. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Treasury proposes new anti-money laundering regulations for investment advisers

 
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on 'the annual report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council' on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Treasury rolls out residential real estate transparency rules to combat money laundering

 
FILE - Former Backpage.com owner Michael Lacey attends a Senate committee on Jan. 10, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Federal prosecutors in Arizona said Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, they will retry Lacey, a co-founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com, on dozens of prostitution facilitation and money laundering charges that alleged he participated in a scheme to sell sex ads. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Backpage founder will face Arizona retrial on charges he participated in scheme to sell sex ads

 

Colorado funeral home owners apparently sought to cover up money problems by abandoning bodies

 
Wander Franco (centro), campocorto de los Rays de Tampa Bay, es escoltado por agentes de policía a un tribunal en Puerto Plata, República Dominicana, el viernes 5 de enero de 2024. (AP Foto/Ricardo Hernández)

Rays shortstop Wander Franco faces lesser charge as judge analyzes evidence in ongoing probe

 
FILE - Tampa Bay Rays' Wander Franco looks on during a baseball game on Aug. 13, 2023, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Franco was arrested Monday, Jan. 1, 2024, in the Dominican Republic after being interviewed by prosecutors investigating him for an alleged relationship with a minor, according to an official in the Puerto Plata province prosecutor's office. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

Prosecutors accuse Rays shortstop Wander Franco of commercial sexual exploitation, money laundering

 
FILE - Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao answers a question during a Zoom meeting interview with The Associated Press on Nov. 16, 2021. Zhao the founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, pleaded guilty Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023, to a felony charge that he failed to take steps to prevent money laundering as the company agreed to pay more than $4 billion following an investigation by the U.S. government. (AP Photo/File)

Largest crypto exchange Binance fined $4 billion, CEO pleads guilty to not stopping money laundering

 
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