Money Laundering

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged proceeds of narcotics trafficking involving Christopher Castelluzzo, Luke Atwell, and Brian Krewson in USA v. approximately 30,006 Ether, approximately 153,925.11 Cronos, approximately 244.23 Binance Coin, approximately 764.19 Solana, approximately 23,848.96 Cardano, approximately 32,232.24 Algorand, approximately 299.48 Avalanche, approximately 0.49 Bitcoin, approximately 1,150.71 Polkadot, approximately 1,589.32 Chainlink, approximately 17,208.48 Polygon, approximately 393 TrueUSD, and approximately 2,466.36 Uniswap at the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged proceeds of "a variety of fraud schemes to convince an unsuspecting victim to send co-conspirators money", one of which "involves “pig butchering,” where online co-conspirators utilize social media platforms and dating websites in search of fraud victims" in USA v. 86,766 USDT "seized from OKX account UUID ending 5504 and ID Number ‘097799 with affiliated deposit address ending 94d8" at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan.

Criminal Indictment alleging fraud and money laundering involving crypto known as SafeMoon in USA v. Braden John Karony, Kyle Nagy, and Thomas Smith at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Forfeiture Application regarding the proceeds of alleged fraud and money laundering in a crypto account at Binance, of the Cayman Islands, associated with Prateek Bhatt, of India, in USA v. 11,493.5516 USDT at the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana.

Criminal Indictment alleging the defendants "provided money laundering services for fraudulent call centers in India" in USA v. Girish Sharma and Saiyed Nuruddin at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Application by ArcelorMittal Holdings AG to take discovery from Reibus International Inc., Reibus Logistics LLC, and Reibus Financial LLC for use in legal proceedings in England and Singapore "to enforce an arbitral award in ArcelorMittal’s favor in the amount of €140 million, plus interest" against Liberty Steel East Europe Limited and Liberty House Group Pte Limited, which are "part of the GFG Alliance, an opaque, complicated, and ever-shifting web of companies that moves assets in and out of Alliance companies as and when it suits Mr. Sanjeev Gupta, who appears to sit at the helm of the Alliance", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the proceeds of "pig butchering" fraud in USA v. 56,382.9700 Tether and 0.03001485 Ether at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding "a 348-foot luxury superyacht - the M/Y Amadea - that is beneficially owned by Suleiman Kerimov, a Russian national" in USA v. The M/Y Amadea at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Press Release by India's Directorate of Enforcement announcing a "Prosecution Complaint" against Sanjay Vijay Shinde, his wife, Aparna Shinde, and M/s Venus Bay Offshore Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands, for suspected money laundering.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding crypto "obtained by agents with the United States Secret Service during an investigation into a transnational criminal organization running an exploitation of elderly and social engineering scam" in USA v. 0.4157802 Bitcoin and 90,922.262837 Tether seized from an account in the name of Ram Kumar at Binance crypto exchange, filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding crypto that was seized from an account in the name of Pan Zhimin at Binance crypto exchange "during an investigation into a transnational criminal organization running an investment fraud scheme" in USA v. 44,799.79 Tether at the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina.

Dutch national Rutger Janse, 28, has been arrested in Florida following a request to extradite him to the Netherlands, where he has been accused of swindling 23 investors out of €4 million.

Minute Order for the initial appearance of Rutger Janse in USA v. Rutger Janse at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Complaint for the extradition of Rutger Aad Janse from the USA to the Netherlands to face charges of fraud, embezzlement, money laundering and providing investment services without a license, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged proceeds of "a cryptocurrency fraud scheme operating out of Southeast Asia and China" in USA v. Crypto seized from accounts at Binance crypto exchange in the names of Duean Phikunkaew, a citizen of Thailand; Varat Vitthayanuwat, a citizen of Thailand; Jiang Changsen, a citizen of China, and Wang Xuewen, a citizen of China, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

Application by QIC Ltd., described as "a governmental entity wholly owned by the Australian State of Queensland", to take discovery from Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch and Deutsche Bank Trust Company of the Americas for use in legal proceedings in Denmark "against Danske Bank A/S" by "over 300 claimants" who allegedly suffered investment losses of "around $1 billion" due to "a series of money laundering activities over a nine-year period from 2007 through 2015 by Danske’s Estonian branch, which has been referred to as the largest money laundering scandal in world history", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged proceeds of fraud that were seized from accounts at Cayman Islands-domiciled crypto exchange Binance in USA v. 303,992.547 USDT, 100.896 BNB, and 108,551.008 USDT at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged proceeds of fraud that were seized from accounts at Cayman Islands-domiciled Binance Holdings Ltd. in the names of Martins Eromosele Iyere, Olawumi Stephen Adewale, and Moses Olumide Sokale in USA v. 0.40401694 Bitcoin, 59,911.36 Tether, 9,128.847 Tether, 1,346.37 Decentraland, 1,039.6163 Curvedao, 14,690.894 Zillqa, 5.5550225 Avalanche, and 14,534,916 Shiba Inu at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.

Criminal Indictment alleging conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business based on crypto in USA v. Samvel Grigoryan and Hayk Martirosyan, both citizens of Armenia, at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Criminal Complaint alleging the laundering of bribery proceeds involving entities in Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Philippines, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and USA in USA v. Juan Andres Donato Bautista, described as the former chairman of the Commission on Elections of the Republic of the Philippines (COMELEC), at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding virtual assets seized from accounts at Binance crypto exchange in the names of Kosit Sisawigon and Suradet Totsaponvised, both in Thailand, and Low Li Yu, in Malaysia, that "was swindled from victims through the course of an investment fraud scam" in USA v. 5,012,294.90 in TetherUS, 75,589,553.41 in Gala, 226.81 in BNB, 1,264.16 in Bitcoin, 1,495.72 in Litentry, 48,969 in Fantom, 47.17 in Ethereum, and 501.41 in BUSD at the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged proceeds of fraud in USA v. "$187,182 in U.S. currency, converted cryptocurrency obtained from SHAISHAV RAMAVAT’s OKX Exchange Account # 301953210925592576", filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the proceeds of an alleged fraud by someone pretending to be from 'Microsoft technical support' and laundering via crypto in USA v. Any and All Virtual Currency, Funds, Monies, and other things of value stored in or accessible at Binance associated with User ID 165978850 at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

Criminal Complaint alleging the defendants "engaged in unlicensed money transmitting business [coinexchange.am], in that they are exchanging cryptocurrency for funds in the form of United States currency, charging a fee as a percentage of the amount of the transfer" in USA v. Samvel Grigoryan and Hayk Martirosyan, both citizens of Armenia, at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Criminal Indictment alleging international money laundering and the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business in USA v. Melik Najm, described as a resident of Brazil, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Forfeiture Application regarding the "proceeds of a wire fraud/romance scheme, also known as 'pig butchering'" in USA v. 489,269.52 Tether on deposit in a Kraken account in the name of OSL SG Pte Ltd., described as a Singapore company established by "a United Kingdom citizen, Suzanne Jensen", at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding "assets involved in and traceable to an international conspiracy to, among other things, launder money misappropriated from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (“1MDB”), a strategic investment and development company wholly-owned by the government of Malaysia", in USA v. Pablo Picasso's 'Trois femmes nues et buste d'homme' drawing and All Funds and Assets on deposit in an account in the name of Glen Vine Partners Limited, of the British Virgin Islands, at ONE Swiss Bank S.A., in Switzerland, at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding "the theft and laundering of more than $7 million worth of cryptocurrency through a wire fraud scheme affecting multiple victims" involving "Pig Butchering" and "an investment platform called NYMEX" in USA v. 1,360,000.748 Tether and $3,859,703.65 formerly held in a Kraken cryptocurrency account at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from International Union Bank - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Liechtenstein - for a criminal investigation into "an international money laundering scheme allegedly involving Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (“PDVSA”), Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled oil company".

Criminal Indictment alleging the defendants laundered "at least over $1 billion in criminal proceeds through the Tornado Cash service" in USA v. Roman Storm, a citizen of the USA, and Roman Semenov, a citizen of Russia, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Criminal Information alleging obstruction of justice and conspiracy to launder the proceeds of fraud with unidentified co-conspirators in Dubai and Ukraine in USA v. Craig Clayton at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Sixth Superseding Indictment alleging fraud and money laundering in USA v. Samuel Bankman-Fried at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Forfeiture Complaint in USA v. $21.8 million "that constitutes proceeds of foreign bribery offenses, property involved in money laundering or a conspiracy to commit money laundering" involving Naman Wakil, described as "a Venezuelan citizen who became a permanent resident in the United States in or around 2012", and accounts in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Plea Agreement and Statement of Offense regarding an offense of "conspiring to launder approximately 119,754 BTC in wire fraud proceeds, worth approximately $71 million at the time of the wire fraud" in USA v. Heather Rhiannon Morgan at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Plea Agreement and Statement of Offense regarding an offense of "conspiring to launder approximately 119,754 BTC in wire fraud proceeds, worth approximately $71 million at the time of the wire fraud" in USA v. Ilya Lichtenstein at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Motion to Comply with Subpoena in Ilan Shor, described as "a prominent businessman and politician in Moldova" v. Matei Dohotaru for use in Ilan Shor's appeal after being "tried and convicted of various offenses connected to the disappearance of $1 billion from three Moldovan banks in 2014", filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Criminal Information alleging fraud and money laundering involving crypto allegedly stolen from British Virgin Islands-domiciled crypto exchange Bitfinex in USA v. Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Rhiannon Morgan at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

The United States has seized $45 million in a U.S. bank account operated by Bahamas-based Deltec Bank & Trust that was allegedly used to launder the proceeds of crypto-based investment fraud and other scams, OffshoreAlert can reveal.

Curaçao's International Global Bank NV intends to sue Swiss firm Consulting and Services Associate SA for "fraudulent misrepresentations" regarding an "OFAC Certification" in a dispute that appears to be linked to sanctions evasion involving Venezuela's state-owned oil and natural gas company PDVSA.

Application by the USA for a warrant to seize $19 million at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation in the name of Deltec Bank and Trust (Bahamas) that "represents the proceeds of wire fraud and/or is property involved in money laundering", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding assets allegedly traceable to smuggling, fraud, and money laundering involving Douglas Latchford, a.k.a. Pakpong Kriangsak, who "Until his death in 2020, ... was based primarily in Thailand and the United Kingdom" in USA v. $12M in Rathbones Investment Management Portfolio Accounts in Jersey, in the Channel Islands, and 7th Century Bronze Statue Depicting the Four-Armed Goddess Durga at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Defendant's Third Unopposed Motion to Continue Trial Date in USA v. Andrew Alturo Fahie, a former Premier of the British Virgin Islands, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application by the USA for a warrant to seize $27 million at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation in the name of Deltec Bank and Trust (Bahamas) that “represents the proceeds of wire fraud and/or is property involved in money laundering”, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Factual Proffer in USA v. Kadeem Stephan Maynard at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Plea Agreement in USA v. Kadeem Stephan Maynard at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Former BVI Ports Authority Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard, 61, and her son, Kadeem Maynard, 32, have each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to import cocaine at federal court in Miami in a scheme that also allegedly involved then British Virgin Islands Premier Andrew Fahie and each face a "mandatory minimum" of 10 years in prison unless the judge determines they are "safety valve eligible". With Fahie's jury trial set to start next month, Oleanvine Maynard has agreed to "cooperate fully" with prosecutors.

Plea Agreement in which defendants agrees to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy ti import a controlled substance in USA v. Oleanvine Pickering Maynard, a former Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority, in the British Virgin Islands, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Factual Proffer regarding a drugs trafficking scheme involving the British Virgin Islands and "the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel" in USA v. Oleanvine Pickering Maynard, former Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority, in the British Virgin Islands, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Criminal Indictment alleging a conspiracy to bribe an IRS official on behalf of the Chinese Government to "topple" the Falun Gong religious movement in USA v. John Chen, a.k.a. Chen Jun, and Lin Feng at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by the USA for a warrant to seize $58 million at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation in the name of Deltec Bank and Trust (Bahamas) that "represents the proceeds of wire fraud and/or is property involved in money laundering", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.