Soccer legend played key role in oiling Germany’s 2006 World Cup bid. The Swiss have done what the Germans couldn’t bring themselves to do. They’ve opened a criminal investigation into soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer over suspicions that he committed fraud and laundered money in helping Germany win the rights to host FIFA’s 2006 World Cup. […]

BACK GROUND A 65-year-old woman facing ruin after sending her life savings to a dating site conman has been convicted of money laundering after she unwittingly passed cash to the scammer from other victims. Foster admitted money laundering at Isleworth Crown Court Sherroll Foster, from Uxbridge, west London, was spared jail after admitting the offence […]

 Nineteen people working for the biggest donor to the Conservative Party have been arrested in France in connection with a multi-million pounds tax and money laundering scandal. All are linked to Lycamobile, the multinational telecoms giant, which has given at least £2.2m to Prime Minister David Cameron’s party since 2011, including half-a-million last year alone. […]

U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled criminal charges against three men accused of running a sprawling computer hacking and fraud scheme that included a huge attack against JPMorgan Chase & Co and generated hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal profit. Gery Shalon, Joshua Samuel Aaron and Ziv Orenstein, all from Israel, were charged in a […]

Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne’s former finance director has now been charged with fraud and money laundering. A finance director who worked for Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne’s group of companies, which are based in Darlington, has been charged with fraud and money laundering totalling almost £8 million. The Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed that […]

Grit and Joseph Birch of Devon, United Kingdom have been jointly charged with fraud and money laundering offenses, according to an article from the UK’s North Devon Journal. The charges stem from transactions in Liechtenstein, New York, and Las Vegas. Included are charges around the concealment of illicit property via cash withdrawals and payments for […]

22 March 2015 He was arrested in relation to suspicion of conspiracy offences and money laundering in the Isle of Man. The suspect, who had been previously arrested and questioned by HMRC in the UK, was further arrested on arrival to the island, at about 7.15pm last night. Officers from the Manx police force continued […]

18 Mar 2015 – Two staff members have been arrested in St Peter Port, in connection with an investigation into a suspected £21m vat and money laundering fraud. They were arrested at an address registered to several companies, and will be interviewed today. Its part of an investigation called operation bannock that spans the British […]