August 16 - Over the past seven years, the Financial Investigations Branch (FIB) of the T&T Police Service (TTPS) has charged 18 people in relation to laundering almost $20 million. The unit also successfully forfeited $418,387,40, US$138,620 and EC$28,000 to the State from money launders during the period.

August 16 - The Asia Pacific Group (APG) on Money Laundering on Wednesday urged Pakistan to enact appropriate laws, enabling local officials to act upon requests of foreign countries to freeze illegal assets and making terrorism financing and money laundering extraditable offences. Pointing out deficiencies in Pakistan’s legal framework, the visiting APG team pointed out that this could hamper Pakistan’s effective response on requests of mutual legal assistance by foreign countries in money laundering cases, officials said.

August 15 - Juan Carlos, who abdicated from the throne in 2014, has been accused of using Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein’s name to buy property in Morocco. Ms Sayn-Wittgenstein, 53, who has been romantically linked with Juan Carlos, has also claimed the former king tried to secretly hide money.

August 14 - A former Canadian ambassador was associated with an investment made in a VIP room in a Macau casino leased from the Hong Kong business magnate Stanley Ho. Allegedly, the ex ambassador has received cash payouts which were delivered to him by hand in Vancouver on a monthly basis, as being part of a scheme that might have put Canada Revenue Agency prosecutions in jeopardy.

August 13 - The real estate industry is gearing up for when it is covered by anti-money laundering laws. The sector comes under the scope of the legislation at the start of next year, which already applies to banks, finance companies, sharebrokers, and casinos.

August 13 - Where would international crime be without money laundering? The quick answer is that criminals would have their ill-gotten gains stuck in one economy, those profits would be unable to be converted into legal tender and assets, and they would be less powerful and wealthy. Without the ability to place, layer and integrate “dirty money” into “clean money,” international criminals would find their business all that more difficult. But money laundering, an ever changing enterprise, has helped keep the crooks in business. Indeed, money laundering has been able to ride the back of technological change, financial innovation and globalization. And cryptocurrencies are the most recent instrument for the advancement of money laundering.

August 10 - The B.C. Liberals have accused Attorney General David Eby of “playing games with confidential Cabinet documents” after Eby asked his predecessors to release casino money laundering files from their 16 years in power. The unusual letter, delivered Friday to B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson, ups the political stakes in a high-drama scandal sparked by hockey bags and even plastic shopping sacks of hundreds of thousands in $20 bills at casino teller wickets in the Lower Mainland.