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Mar 25 2021
Turkish Tycoon, Trump Fundraiser and ex-CIA Chief Involved in 2018 Attempt to Free US Pastor Held in Turkey
Sezgin Baran Korkmaz, a Turkish tycoon now on the run over a half-billion-dollar fraud scheme involving members of fundamentalist Mormon sect, hosted influential Americans on a backchannel trip to Turkey to free jailed American pastor Andrew Brunson. Trump backer Tommy Hicks Jr. and former C.I.A. Director James Woolsey flew to Turkey in September 2018 to …
Mar 24 2021
Ex-Maltese PM Aide Among 11 Charged with Corruption
Prosecutors in Malta charged on Saturday former top government official Keith Schembri, his father and nine business associates with money laundering and fraud. Schembri was accused years ago by murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia of corruption.Schembri, who served as former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s chief of staff, and the others were charged with money laundering, …
Mar 08 2021
Trust company fined $835,000 for opening ‘gateway to possible money laundering’ in Angola
Image: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images An investment scheme involving tycoon Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais exposed in ICIJ’s Paradise Papers investigation bore “obvious” risks of possible corruption, a Jersey court finds. A court in the Channel Islands has fined a team of accountants and economists who for years ignored “obvious” risks of possible corruption and …