Dec 11 2025
Since September 19, the country’s Financial and Economic Analysis Unit has ordered regulators to block accounts belonging to several groups. The freezes coincided with demonstrations against President Daniel Noboa’s plan to eliminate diesel subsidies and approve a controversial mining project. The account freezes were imposed under the , passed in August, which allows authorities to …
Dec 11 2025
The plan aims to close legal loopholes and strengthen the country’s defenses against illicit finance. Lawyers, accountants, bankers and trust and company service providers are explicitly named as priority targets for disruption and enforcement. A key element of the plan is reforming how professional-services firms are regulated for anti–money-laundering. The document aims to go after …
Dec 09 2025
Nepal’s top anti-graft body has filed corruption charges against 55 senior officials and a Chinese company. The agency alleges they embezzled millions of dollars during the construction of Pokhara International Airport. The high-profile project was built under Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative. A Nepalese consulting firm had determined the project could be …
Dec 09 2025
China’s national security office in Hong Kong summoned senior journalists from major international outlets. Officials declined to say whether those media had done anything wrong. The meeting came after allegedly critical reporting on the blaze, which killed at least 159 people. The fire dominated local news coverage for more than a week and led to …
Dec 06 2025
Belgian authorities are said to have detained former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Tuesday. The probe involves a suspected fraud scheme connected to the training of European diplomats. Federal Police carried out searches at the College of Europe in Bruges and at the European External Action Service (EEAS) in Brussels. Investigators are looking …
Dec 06 2025
Proposed legislation would make it easier to fire the head of the country’s public broadcaster. The proposal was submitted last month by Remigijus Žemaitaitis, who founded Nemunas Dawn in 2023. Journalists at Lithuanian National Television and Radio began holding moments of silence on air this week. They now plan to take their protest to the …
Dec 06 2025
Ukrainian authorities detained a former deputy energy minister today on suspicion of embezzling funds from the state-owned nuclear power company. The move comes amid a wider corruption investigation, which has ensnared people close to President Volodymyr Zelensky who are suspected of laundering about $100 million from Energoatom, the state energy enterprise. Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) …
Dec 06 2025
Bankera’s founders appeared to siphon funds from investors, OCCRP and 15min revealed. Lithuanian authorities carried out more than 30 raids at companies associated with Bankera last week. Investigators are looking at possible “embezzlement of property,” according to 15min. Bankera’s founders acquired Pacific Private Bank (PPB) in Vanuatu, and moved millions of euros raised in a …
Dec 05 2025
Nomma Zarubina, 34, had her bail revoked and was ordered into pre-trial detention in an emergency hearing late on December 2. She was indicted in a U.S. federal court last year for allegedly lying to the FBI about her contact with an officer from Russia’s intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB) She was later …
Dec 05 2025
More than 20 humanitarian workers are set to stand trial in Greece on migrant-smuggling and money-laundering charges. If convicted, they face up to 20 years in prison. The charges concern the defendants’ work with the now-defence group. The Mytilene Court of Appeals on the Greek island of Lesvos is expected to hear the case on …