The Court of Appeal has reduced the verdict of a Colombian woman convicted of illicit drug trade from death sentence to 15 years in jail.
More than a third of Arab banks have seen their business links with foreign banks shrink over the past four years because of pressures such as economic sanctions and concern about money laundering, according to a study published on Monday.
A Philippine court on Thursday released on bail a former branch manager of a Manila bank in a perjury case linked to the world's largest known cyber bank heist, police said.
Sri Lankan financial crime police arrested the eldest son of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday on suspicion of laundering money, his lawyer said, the latest legal difficulty for the once-powerful family.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has given a commitment that $81mn stolen by cyber criminals from the account of Bangladesh Bank in New York would be returned, the Bangladesh ambassador to the Philippines said.
The Court of Appeal has upheld the ruling of a Doha criminal court sentencing three Asian expatriates to jail for three years each for money laundering.
An Asia-Pacific money laundering group has moved its meeting out of Bangladesh citing security concerns, 10 days after militants stormed a cafe in the capital and killed 20 people, mostly foreigners.
Spanish police said they had arrested 30 people suspected of illegally distributing pay television content and of laundering the proceeds by investing in bitcoin "mining" centres for processing transactions.
Dubai police are seeking at least two Canadians and one Iranian in connection with the fatal shooting last week of a real estate investor in an upscale neighbourhood, media reported on Wednesday.
The founder of an online underworld bank that allegedly laundered billions of dollars for criminals was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison.
India's government said it had temporarily suspended the passport of beleaguered tycoon Vijay Mallya, after he failed to appear before financial crime investigators in connection with a money laundering probe.
Australian police said they had arrested two people, including a 16-year-old girl, on suspicion of raising funds to support operations of the Islamic State militant group.
