Criminal networks are exploiting trade and banking systems to move billions of dollars across borders undetected. This stark revelation was made at the 2025 FATF/GIABA Joint Experts Meeting in Accra ...

Trade-based money laundering has emerged as the new front in West Africa’s fight against illicit finance, as regulators warn that criminal networks are exploiting trade and banking systems to move ...

U.S. trade policy is now synonymous with tariff policy. President Trump’s latest round of higher taxes on imports went into effect on Aug. 7, and the 40 countries with which the U.S. runs a trade ...

Placement is the first stage of the three stages of money laundering. At this stage, criminals attempt to enter the ‘dirty’ money into the financial system. This process can be dangerous because large ...

Chinese nationals engaged in extensive money-laundering operations in the U.S., moving a suspected $312 billion in illicit cash over the past five years, the Treasury Department revealed Thursday. The ...

On a hazy afternoon in May 2021, Daniel Gonzalez, alias “Rafael Arocho,” sped through Pasadena in a white Lexus packed with about $600,000 in cash — drug profits bound for a handoff at a San Gabriel ...