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Federal prosecutors today unsealed a sweeping indictment against Isai Scheinberg and Raymond Bitar, founders of the world’s biggest online poker companies, and moved to try to shut down their businesses.

The indictment filed by Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, charges Scheinberg, the founder of PokerStars, and Bitar, the founder of Full Tilt Poker, as well as nine other individuals, accusing them of operating illegal gambling businesses. Federal prosecutors also filed a civil lawsuit seeking $3 billion in civil money laundering penalties, alleging the online poker companies disguised money they received from U.S. poker players as payments to online merchants selling jewelry and golf balls.

http://www.tac3.es/blog/u-s-government-moves-to-shut-down-world%e2%80%99s-biggest-online-poker-companies/

www.thejakartapost.com
Officials launched a money laundering investigation at Citibank on Monday, amid allegations that several public officials had accounts with implausibly large balances at the bank.
The investigation would also follow the trail of funds related to the alleged embezzlement perpetrated by Inong Malinda, a high-value client manager at Citibank, Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) chairman Yunus Husein said late on Friday.
http://www.tac3.es/blog/money-laundering-probe-starts-at-citibank/

A hawala trader has revealed to agencies probing his accounts that a substantial portion of the money in overseas bank accounts belonged to top Indian politicians and bureaucrats, including three former chief ministers of Maharashtra. In what could place the trader at the centre of a devious parallel banking network for the country’s most corrupt politicos, investigators have found an ingenious money laundering mechanism that succeeded in turning black money into legitimate earnings through the stock market. It is reported that he took unaccounted black money from Indian politicians out of the country through the hawala channel and parked them in bank accounts in various countries across the globe.

http://www.tac3.es/blog/hawala-trader-allegedly-laundered-millions/

A former Panama President looks likely to be facing a second criminal investigation, into money laundering. This time the case is linked to alleged irregularities in a bank account in the Bahamas, which was used to move over $176 million between May 2009 and June 2010.

http://www.tac3.es/blog/probe-into-former-presidents-monetary-affairs/

www.fbi.gov
An Oregon man recently pled guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmittal business that illegally moved more than $172 million in and out of the United States.
Why are licensing and registration laws so important? Several years ago, the U.S. government issued a money-laundering assessment that identified money services businesses—especially wire remitters—as a chief conduit for the illicit transmission of money, including funds used to finance all sorts of criminal activity and terrorism. Requirements to register these businesses enable state and federal regulatory agencies to keep a closer eye on what they’re doing.
http://www.tac3.es/blog/moving-money-illegally-a-172-million-case-example/