money laundering

Police in Greece arrested a notorious money launderer, who, according to Europol, was cleaning the dirty money of the world’s foremost criminals, including drug cartels. According to Greece's Financial and Economic Crime Unit (S.D.O.E.) the 52-year-old suspect is a Greek...

The many financial ties Cyprus has with Russia appear to be causing Nicosia to vacillate on the terms for its own airspace ban on Russian flights that was called for in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Just the...

London's Metropolitan police seized nearly £180 million ($248,993,100) of bitcoin on Tuesday as part of a money laundering investigation.

In a groundbreaking move, TIME Magazine announced that it would begin accepting Crypto, a digital cryptocurrency, for subscriptions.

A Cyprus passport scheme, involving officials selling passports to felons, was uncovered this summer in a sting operation by journalists.

The nation of Cyprus has abruptly stopped the issuance of Golden Visas after a press report  and video showed alleged corruption in the process, in which foreigners were welcomed to pay for a visa allowing them residence in the...

A civil engineer who testified prior to the arrest of former minister Yiannos Papantoniou and his wife Stavroula Kourakou on money laundering charges, told prosecutors that he had helped the couple transfer €2.5 million in cash abroad. Papantoniou and his...

Realtors, lawyers, accountants, notaries, members of the banking industry, high-end retailers, and money transfer agents are in the high-risk money laundering group in Greece, according to a Finance Ministry report. The report entitled "National Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk...

  Greece's former Economy and Finance Minister, Yiannos Papantoniou, and his wife Stavroula Kourakou were given an extension to prepare their testimony on charges of money laundering by a court in Athens on Thursday. Both appeared at the investigator’s office with their solicitor,...

Tasos Mandelis, a former socialist transport minister, was found guilty of money laundering in the Siemens kickbacks case, and was handed an eight-year suspended sentence. Judges ruled that Mandelis had received 450,000 German marks as a bribe for a contract...