Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

Pandora Papers: New Leak Exposes Balkan PEPs’ Hidden Riches

Published by Balkan Insight on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 16:37

Following on from the Panama Papers and FinCEN files, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists obtained nearly 12 million files from 14 service providers - bankers, lawyers, accountants, and registration agents - and shared them with more than 600 journalists around the world, including BIRN.

Central Bank of Cyprus takes over FBME branch

Published by Kathimerini on Fri, 07/18/2014 - 20:19

Cyprus’s central bank took control of the Cypriot branch of a Tanzanian-based bank on Friday, a day after the United States called it a “financial institution of primary money-laundering concern.”

The Central Bank of Cyprus said that acting under the authority given to it by law, it had assumed the administration of operations of the FBME Bank branch on the island from Friday.