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SAN DIEGO – Geovany Andres Rojas, aka “Araña,” a Colombian national and alleged high-level narco-terrorist and prolific cocaine trafficker, was extradited from Colombia to the United States today. Ro…
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The InSight Take: US Drug Certification: Law Enforcement or Politics? Why did the United States remove Venezuela from its drug blacklist while Colombia and Bolivia remain on it? In this InSight Take,…
U.S. prosecutors allege that Oxygen Forensics concealed its Russian ownership and Russia-based software development while selling digital forensic tools to American government agencies, including the…
Defense lawyers argued in a Virginia courtroom that Sebastián Marset "studiously avoided" the United States, asking a federal judge to dismiss narco-terrorism and money laundering charges on the grou…
U.S. regulators have made it clear that banks have the discretion to explain account closures, short of disclosing the existence of a suspicious activity report filing. They should make it mandatory.
Documents obtained by ProPublica suggest the senator flexed her power to secure government contracts for donors
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A forthcoming rule from Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network will spell out banks' obligations to identify the true identities and beneficial ownership of its clients, even as the administ…
The Chinese tech giant is on trial in New York for allegedly violating U.S. sanctions on Iran and stealing trade secrets as it built its global telecommunications empire.