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California Man Arrested for Allegedly Exporting Shipments of Firearms, Ammunition and Other Military Items to North Korea
Shenghua Wen, 41, of Ontario, California, was arrested today on a criminal complaint alleging that he exported shipments of firearms,...

US Department of Justice
Dec 3, 20242 min read
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Justice Department Files Civil Forfeiture Complaint Against Sanctioned Oligarch’s U.S. Music Studio Sale Proceeds
Note : View the complaint here . A civil forfeiture complaint was filed today for $3.4 million in proceeds from the sale of a music...

US Department of Justice
Dec 2, 20245 min read
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Russian National Arrested for Attempting to Illegally Export Aircraft to Russia by Transshipping Through Armenia
Sergey Nechaev, a dual U.S.-Russian citizen, was arrested today in the Southern District of Georgia on charges related to the unlawful...

US Department of Justice
Dec 2, 20242 min read
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Nine Members of Multi-State Money Laundering Organization Charged in Wide-Ranging Conspiracy
An indictment was unsealed yesterday in Nashville, Tennessee, charging nine members of a multi-state money laundering organization...

US Department of Justice
Nov 27, 20242 min read
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Founder of U.S. Freight Forwarding Company Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Illegally Export Goods from the United States to Prohibited Chinese Companies
Richard Shih, 77, the founder and former chief executive officer of a California-based international logistics and freight forwarding...

US Department of Justice
Nov 26, 20243 min read
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Owner of Florida Labor-Staffing Companies Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud and Money Laundering
Defendant Caused a Tax Loss to the United States of more than $9.5M A Ukrainian national pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to defraud...

US Department of Justice
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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Indian National Charged with Conspiring to Illegally Export U.S. Aviation Components to Russia
On Nov. 20 in the District of Oregon, Sanjay Kaushik, 57, of India, was indicted for conspiring to export controlled aviation components...

US Department of Justice
Nov 22, 20242 min read
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High-Ranking Mexican Cartel Leader Arrested on Charges of International Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering After Faking Own Death to Live in California Under Assumed Identity
A federal court in the Central District of California unsealed a criminal complaint yesterday charging Cristian Fernando Gutierrez-Ochoa...

US Department of Justice
Nov 21, 20244 min read
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Former Arizona Elected Official Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement of More than $38M of County Funds
A former Santa Cruz County, Arizona, official pled guilty today to embezzlement, money laundering, and tax evasion for her role in...

US Department of Justice
Nov 21, 20243 min read
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Justice Department Seizes Cybercrime Website and Charges Its Administrators
Three Administrators Charged and Cryptocurrency Seized The Justice Department today announced the seizure of PopeyeTools, an illicit...

US Department of Justice
Nov 20, 20244 min read
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California Man Sentenced for Acting as an Illegal Agent of the People’s Republic of China Government and Bribery
John Chen Furthered the PRC Government’s Transnational Repression Campaign Against the Falun Gong by Paying Cash Bribes to a Purported...

US Department of Justice
Nov 19, 20243 min read
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Former CEO Indicted for Role in Bribing Japanese Officials and BIT Mining Ltd. Resolves Foreign Bribery Investigation
An indictment was unsealed today charging the former CEO of 500.com (now BIT Mining Ltd.), Zhengming Pan, a Chinese national, with...

US Department of Justice
Nov 18, 20245 min read
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