The ‘Federal Authority for Fighting Financial Crime" will absorb the functions of the FIU and also be responsible for enforcing international sanctions.
April 3, 2023An Indian business was sold to a Mauritius-based fund in 2015, weeks before Wirecard bought the company for a price ten times higher.
April 1, 2023The German FIU was sitting on more than 100,000 unprocessed SARs which it did not disclose to the FATF during its mutual evaluation.
December 23, 2022Former CEO Markus Braun and his co-defendants face up to 15 years in jail, though a verdict is not expected until at least 2024.
December 15, 2022The charges in Singapore are for criminal breach of trust and money laundering. A bank official in the Philippines was indicted.
August 19, 2022Controversial events can cause lasting damage to shareholder value, analysis from Moody’s Analytics suggests.
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December 23, 2021In the aftermath of the Wirecard scandal, German regulator BaFin was accused of being beholden to banking industry lobbyists and the finance ministry.
November 30, 2021The probe was launched following complaints that the FIU had not acted on millions of euros of suspect transactions between 2018 and 2020.
September 15, 2021