An international commodities trading company pled guilty and paid monetary penalties to resolve DOJ charges for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The company had been charged with bribing then-public officials of an Ecuadorian state-owned oil company to secure business advantages and contracts.
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The DOJ, OFAC, FinCEN and the CFTC settled enforcement actions against Binance, its CEO and former CCO. The coordinated settlements addressed charges against the digital asset exchange for CFTC registration failures and for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and International Emergency Economic Powers Act sanctions programs.
The DOJ filed a criminal complaint against a Vietnamese citizen for operating an online cryptocurrency “mixing” service that helped customers launder bitcoin proceeds of illicit activities.
The DOJ, the SEC and the CFTC charged the Alameda Research CEO and the FTX Chief Technology Officer in schemes to defraud FTX's customers and investors.
A Denmark-based bank settled DOJ and SEC charges for fraud and failure to disclose deficiencies in its AML compliance program related to its Estonian branch.