Topic
Money laundering
10 assessed claims about money laundering involving 5 organizations. The labels compare each claim with the record. They do not rate the organizations.
- Supported5
- Partly supported2
- Contradicted1
- Unresolved2
- Unresolved58Nigerian authorities charged Binance with tax offences and, with a detained executive, with money laundering in 2024.
- Supported92The US Department of Justice said on 21 November 2023 that Binance pleaded guilty to anti-money laundering, unlicensed money transmitting and sanctions violations and agreed to pay over US$4 billion.
- Supported79The Federal Court of Malaysia on 23 August 2022 unanimously upheld the conviction and 12 year jail sentence of former prime minister Najib Razak in the SRC International case.
- Supported68Swedbank said in March 2020 that a Clifford Chance report found high-risk transactions of about EUR 37 billion in its Baltic units, but could not conclude that money laundering took place.
- Supported92Sweden's financial regulator found in March 2020 that Swedbank had major deficiencies in its anti-money laundering work in the Baltics and fined it SEK 4 billion.
- Unresolved77The US Department of Justice announced on 1 November 2018 that Low Taek Jho, known as Jho Low, was indicted for conspiring to launder billions of dollars embezzled from 1MDB and that he remained at large.
- Partly supported75An October 2018 Al Jazeera report said some EUR 200 billion in suspicious transactions passed through Danske Bank's Estonian branch.
- Contradicted88A January 2018 OneCoin company statement said the company had never been involved in criminal or illegal activities and called money laundering reports untrue and misleading.
- Supported84The US Department of Justice said in July 2016 that it was seeking to recover more than US$1 billion in assets it alleged were traceable to the misappropriation of more than US$3.5 billion from 1MDB.
- Partly supported62The Edge Malaysia reported that Jho Low, in a statement of defence, said the October 2019 settlement with the US Department of Justice did not constitute an admission of guilt or any wrongdoing.1Malaysia Development BerhadPress report, 28 January (year not shown on page)4 records citedMoney laundering