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A panel of experts from the United Nations called upon world governments to not only fight tax abuse and cross-border financial crimes, but to commit to reinvesting the billions of lost dollars into the COVID-19 crisis and international development goals for 2030.

The Department of Justice said last month that North Korea has used cyberattacks to steal over $1 billion since 2015 to fund its nuclear weapons program.

Government corruption is hard to see, and the drag it imposes on economic development is hard to measure.

I want to comment on the Star-Ledger editorial, "For racial justice, Murphy should hold his nose and sign sentencing bill."

he new pandemic has taken its toll on the world and certainly changed the way members of society fundamentally interact with each other.

China's Inner Mongolia region plans to ban new cryptocurrency mining projects and shut down existing activity in a bid to cut down on energy-consumption.

A Paris court found French former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling on Monday and sentenced him to a year in prison.

Guatemala's Congress has begun reshaping the country's highest court, selecting a new magistrate and an alternate in decisions that could have grave consequences for the battle against corruption and impunity

Property brokers, gem wholesalers have until March 31 to be in full compliance

An ex-government minister and the daughter of former Romanian President Traian Basescu have been convicted of corruption.

B.C.'s inquiry into money laundering has heard stunning evidence about connections between B.C. government casinos, casinos in Macau and Las Vegas, and international drug traffickers and loan sharks moving money between Vancouver, Latin America and Asia via Chinese underground banks.

The president and a board member of the now-closed Geek Group, as well as a consultant, have been indicted in a federal money laundering case for allegedly illegally buying and selling Bitcoin.

Britain's financial watchdog must act faster on scams, its chair said on Monday as he announced that senior officials face pay cuts and no bonuses following criticism of the regulator's role in the collapse of London Capital & Finance (LCF) investment fund.

Blockchain analytics company Coinfirm noted that scams and fraud account for two thirds of the funds misappropriated.

2020 was a rough year for the financial services industry. Between the Covid-19 pandemic and the FinCEN files leak, several shortcomings within the sector were exposed, while global regulators continued to slap Financial Institutions around the world with hefty fines.

The UAE Higher Committee Overseeing the National Strategy on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) has launched two programmes to train and certify professionals on global compliance standards and procedures to fight illicit finance.

With people, governments, and organizations taking their businesses and operations online and making large digital transactions all around the world, it's needless to say that opportunists and hackers are not shy of trying to make a quick buck off of people's vulnerability and lack of knowledge.

UK bank branch workers along with the police have stopped ?45m ($62.6m) in fraud in 2020 through the Banking Protocol scheme.

There's a recent mania taking over the investing world, and it's called cryptocurrency. Since the domain name Bitcoin.com was registered in 2008, the world has seen Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) rise and fall, hitting just under $50,000 per token on Feb. 15, 2021.

The designation places Morocco alongside Yemen and Syria and could impact its ability to attract foreign investment in the future