Money Laundering

Eight days after it was disclosed at federal court in Miami that her son, Kadeem Maynard, intends to plead guilty in a narcotics trafficking and money laundering criminal case, it was disclosed in a court entry that former British Virgin Islands Ports Authority Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard will do likewise, leaving former BVI Premier Andrew Fahie as the only defendant still fighting the charges.

Class Action Complaint in Gregory A. Stevenson v. Richard E. Thornburgh, Bradley W. Dougan, John G. Popp, Brian Chin, Jay Kim, Albert Sohn, Mirko Bianchi, Urs Rohner, John Tiner, Severin Schwan, Iris Bohnet, Lydie Hudson, Kaikhushru S. Nargolwala, Seraina Macia, Joaquin J. Ribeiro, Michael Klein, Noreen Doyle, James L. Amine, Eric Varvel, Romeo Cerutti, David L. Miller, David R. Mathers, Lara J. Warner, Timothy P. O'Hara, Robert S. Shafir, Pamela A. Thomas-Graham, Sean T. Brady, Robert Jain, Philip Vasan, Credit Suisse Holdings (USA) Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Credit Suisse Capital LLC, Credit Suisse Management LLC, KPMG LLP, KPMG LLC, Paul Knopp,, William Thomas, Larry Bradley, Laura M. Newinski, Regina H. Mayor, John B. Veihmeyer, Brian J. Sweet, David Britt, Scott Marcello, David Middendorf, Thomas Whittle, Cynthia Holder, and Jeffrey Wada at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Criminal Complaint alleging conspiracy to act as a foreign government agent for China, money laundering, and bribery of "a purported Internal Revenue Service agent who was in fact an undercover officer ... as part of a PRC Government-directed scheme to revoke the tax-exempt status of a 501(c)(3) organization run by Falun Gong practitioners" 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.

Superseding Indictment alleging citizens of Russia, Greece, and the USA participated in a global procurement and money laundering scheme on behalf of the Russian government in USA v. Yevgeniy Grinin, Aleksey Ippolitov, Boris Livshits, Svetlana Skvortsova, Vadim Konoshchenok, Nikolaos Bogonikolos, Alexey Brayman, and Vadim Yermolenko at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

USA's Motion to Compel BlockFi to Comply with Seizure Warrants in USA v. Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, both citizens of Estonia, at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

In what is likely to be bad news for former British Virgin Islands Premier and accused narcotics trafficker and money launderer Andrew Fahie, a change of plea hearing has been set for one of his co-defendants, 32-year-old Kadeem Maynard, meaning it's likely that Maynard has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint in Indiana Public Retirement System, Boston Retirement System, Public School Teachers' Pension & Retirement Fund of Chicago, International Union of Operating Engineers Local No. 793 Members Pension Benefit Trust of Ontario, UMC Benefit Board, Inc. and Wespath Institutional Investments LLC, both as administrative trustees of the Wespath Funds Trust; Bucks County Employees Retirement Fund, Jacob Guz, and John Thomas v. Silvergate Capital Corporation, Karen F. Brassfield, Robert C. Campbell, Canaccord Genuity LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Paul D. Colucci, Compass Point Research & Trading LLC, Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Thomas C. Dircks, Kathleen M. Fraher, Dennis S. Frank, Goldberg-Flores LLC, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Aanchal Gupta, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., Alan J. Lane, Michael Lempres, Antonio Martino, Scott Reed, Benjamin C. Reynolds, Colleen Sullivan, UBS Securities LLC, Wedbush Securities Inc., and Wedbush Securities LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Polyflake LLC - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from the Czech Republic - for a criminal investigation into Tomas Svoboda, Patrik Olah and others for suspected money laundering.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Chase Bank, Bank of America, Corporate America Credit Union, Wells Fargo, Citibank, HSBC Bank USA, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Deutsche Bank - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Portugal - for a criminal investigation into Ion Dumitru, Viorel Ciuraru, Nicu Stefan, and Marian Arcanum for suspected money laundering.

USA's Sentencing Submission regarding a scheme to bribe government officials in the Marshall Islands to pass business legislation in USA v. Cary Yan, a citizen of the Marshall Islands, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Cary Yan's Sentencing Submission regarding a scheme to bribe government officials in the Marshall Islands to pass business legislation in USA v. Cary Yan, a citizen of the Marshall Islands, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Judgment in BTA Bank JSC, of Kazakhstan v. Ilyas Khrapunov, whose "last known address" was in Switzerland, at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.

Second Amended Complaint alleging "improper commercial activities, including the illegal misappropriation of millions of dollars of Plaintiffs' bank-deposited funds in an elaborate money laundering scheme", in Oleg Zhukovskiy, described as "a U.S. permanent resident"; ZUKK Trading Limited, of Cyprus; Intertransgroup LLC, of Ukraine; Nikolay Kovzel, a citizen of Ukraine, and Vitaly Didylivsky, a citizen of Ukraine v. National Bank of Ukraine at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Wells Fargo Bank N.A., Bank of New York Mellon, and Standard Chartered Bank - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Turkey - for a criminal investigation into Ugur Ozdemir and others for suspected money laundering.

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Complaint alleging the defendant "and others orchestrated and carried out a plan to violate and evade and attempt to violate and evade U.S. sanctions against Sergey Vitalievich Kurchenko [a citizen of Ukraine], Kompaniya Gaz-Alyans, OOO, and ZAO Vneshtorgservis" in USA v. John Can Unsalan, a.k.a. Hurrem Can Unsalan, at the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Wells Fargo Bank and Bank of America - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Argentina - for a criminal investigation into "Martin Azar, Diego Sebastian Sanchez, and others for money laundering, unauthorized financial intermediation, and criminal conspiracy".

Application for an order authorizing the disclosure of Grand Jury materials (BAC Florida Bank records) to Panama for use in a criminal investigation into Héctor Dáger, described as "a Venezuelan citizen with Panamanian residency permit", for "potential corruption and money laundering relating to contracts obtained by the Brazilian company Odebrecht S.A. from the government of Venezuela".

Amended Forfeiture Complaint in USA v. 65.08094134 Bitcoin, 247653.48461442 United States Dollar Tether, 9.1345 Ethereum, 25000.461 Unites States Dollar Tether, 1.00000785 Bitcoin, and 3.00992637 Ethereum that "were seized from Binance accounts utilized by a Money Laundering Organization based in Mexico to transmit the proceeds of international drug trafficking", at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Bank of New York Mellon and JPMorgan Chase Bank - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Portugal - for a criminal investigation into "Vitor Miguel Lopes Ferreira, the company Coordenadas Fidalgas, Unipessoal, Lda, and its manager Cheick F’anta Mady Dansoko for money laundering, aggravated fraud, and criminal association"

First Superseding Indictment in USA v. Ho Wan Kwok, described as "an exiled Chinese businessman who fled to the United States"; Kin Ming Je, described as "a dual citizen of Hong Kong and the United Kingdom who principally resided in the United Kingdom", and Yanping Wang at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Fifth Superseding Indictment alleging fraud, money laundering, operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, making unlawful political contributions, and bribery of "one or more Chinese government officials in order to regain access to Alameda trading accounts that had been frozen by Chinese law enforcement authorities" in USA v. Sam Bankman-Fried at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding assets allegedly associated with fraud and money laundering in USA v. 32,133.63 Tether seized from an account at Binance held in the name of Koriya Aveshbhai Hanifbhai at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

Criminal Indictment for securities fraud and money laundering with "hundreds of millions of dollars of the fraudulent scheme's proceeds" going into "bank accounts in the United States, Bahamas, and United Arab Emirates, among other places" in USA v. Ho Wan Kwok, a.k.a. Miles Guo, Miles Kwok, Guo Wengui, Brother Seven, and The Principal, described as "an exiled Chinese businessman who fled to the United States", and Kin Ming Je, a.k.a. William Je, described as "a dual citizen of Hong Kong and the United Kingdom who principally resided in the United Kingdom", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Superseding Information alleging fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to make unlawful political contributions involving FTX crypto group in USA v. Nishad Singh at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Criminal Indictment alleging fraud involving entities in, among others, Bermuda and Malta in USA v. Greg E. Lindberg at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.

Superseding Indictment alleging the defendant "stole FTX customer deposits, and used billions of dollars in stolen funds for a variety of purposes, including, among other things, to support the operations and investments of FTX and Alameda; to fund speculative venture investments; to make charitable contributions; to enrich himself; and to try to purchase influence over cryptocurrency regulation in Washington, D.C. by steering tens of millions of dollars of illegal campaign contributions to both Democrats and Republicans" in USA v. Sam Bankman-Fried at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding an alleged fraud and money laundering scheme involving "the ransomware variant known as Sodinokibi/REvil" in USA v. Crypto valued at $317,252 seized from 'virtual currency wallets held by Daniil Shchukin' at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Criminal Indictment alleging violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act regarding "bribes to foreign officials at Brazil's state-owned and state-controlled oil and gas company, Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras" involving entities in Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Liberia, Panama, and Uruguay in USA v. Glenn Oztemel, described as a citizen of the USA, and Eduardo Innecco, described as a citizen of Brazil and Italy, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding crypto "seized from Binance" that is allegedly the proceeds of "a money laundering and unlicensed money transmitting conspiracy" in USA v. 65.08094134 Bitcoin, 247653.48461442 United States Dollar Tether, 9.1345 Ethereum, 25000.461 Unites States Dollar Tether, 1.00000785 Bitcoin, 0.17972627 Bitcoin, and 27892.00185173 United States Dollar Tether at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Complaint "to prevent the misuse of cryptocurrency to commit very serious crimes" in The JuratBTC Blockchain, described as "an unincorporated association of operators (called “miners”) who use their computer servers (called “nodes”) to maintain the blockchain" v. Anton Andreyev, Blender.io, Chatex, Farrukj Furkatovitch Fayzimatov, Taban Deng Gai, Matthew Grimm, Yu Jin, Jiadong Li, Hydra Market, Husayn Al-Shami, Second Eye Solutions, Southfront, Suex, Yinyin Tian, Xiaobing Yan, and Fujing Zheng, collectively described asd "a group of sixteen “sanctioned individuals” - people who have been identified as international criminals by the President of the United States", at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Criminal Indictment alleging "a scheme to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act" involving "shell companies" in the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, and Panama in USA v. Vladimir Voronchenko, described as a citizen of Russia, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application for Non-Disclosure Order regarding a criminal investigation into Gavin Mayo, Gabriel Hay, and Ali Saghi for suspected fraud and money laundering in which they are "suspected of creating several Non-Fungible Token (NFT) rug pull scams that have defrauded investors of millions of dollars in various cryptocurrencies", in USA v. Meta Platforms Inc. at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Letter from 'Antony Menington', of 'Data Lawyers', which appears to be falsely held out as a law firm, requesting the removal of two OffshoreAlert articles that mention "our client Quintero Patiño" regarding a criminal investigation in Spain into Domingo Tarruella Dalmau and others for suspected narcotics trafficking and money laundering.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in International Union of Operating Engineers, Local No. 793, Members Pension Benefit Trust of Ontario, of Canada v. Silvergate Capital Corporation, Alan J. Lane, Antonio Martino, Kathleen M. Fraher, Benjamin C. Reynolds, Dennis S. Frank, Michael Lempres, Karen F. Brassfield, Robert C. Campbell, Paul D. Colucci, Thomas C. Dircks, Scott Reed, Colleen Sullivan, Aanchal Gupta, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc., Canaccord Genuity LLC, Compass Point Research & Trading LLC, Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, JPMorgan Securities LLC, and Wedbush Securities LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

Amended Criminal Complaint alleging the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business in the form of Bitzlato Limited, described as "a Hong Kong-registered cryptocurrency exchange", in USA v. USA v. Anatoly Legkodymov, described as a citizen of Russia residing in Shenzhen, China, at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Criminal Indictment alleging the defendants "violated sanctions imposed by t he United States on Oleg Deripaska , a Russian oligarch" in USA v. Charles McGonigal and Sergey Shestakov at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Superseding Indictment alleging fraud and money laundering regarding "a purported cryptocurrency mining and trading company that promised to earn its victim-investors profits in exchange for their purchase of cryptocurrency-related investment products" in USA v. Francisley da Silva, a citizen of Brazil; Juan Tacuri, Antonia Perez Hernandez, and Ramon Perez at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding funds associated with "a suspected conspiracy by foreign entities and entities and individuals in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to commit wire fraud and money laundering" involving entities, inter alia, in Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands in USA v. $271,088 and $39,188 seized from accounts at the Bank of Saipan in the name of a company referred to as "MCS", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.

Application by the Republic of Kazakhstan to take discovery from The Clearing House Payments Company LLC regarding "(1) ongoing criminal proceedings against Moldovan oligarch Anatolie Stati, his son Gabriel Stati, and their companies Ascom Group S.A. and Terra Raf Trans Traiding Ltd. in Luxembourg; (2) ongoing civil proceedings in the Netherlands between the Statis and Petitioner; and (3) ongoing and anticipated proceedings against the Statis in the courts of Belgium and other jurisdictions" regarding "a series of complex, multi-faceted fraud schemes, including money laundering schemes, engineered by the Statis", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Order Granting requests to redact plea agreements of Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang in USA v. Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Bail Disposition and Appearance Bond in USA v. Sam Bankman-Fried at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Wise Inc., Pichincha Bank, Mercury-Wells Fargo and Company, Barclays Bank, and Evolve Bank and Trust - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Ecuador - for a criminal investigation into "Cristhian Bladimir Jumbo Angulo, Christian Andres Roman Zapatanga, and Isabel Natalia Gonzalez Delgado and others" for suspected money laundering.

Transcript of Guilty Plea Hearing in USA v. Caroline Ellison at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Bail Disposition in USA v. Caroline Ellison at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Superseding Information alleging fraud and money laundering regarding the FTX crypto group in USA v. Caroline Ellison at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint and Proposed Judgment alleging "Danske, directly and through its branch in Estonia, provided banking services to suspicious customers despite knowing there was a high degree of risk that such customers were potentially engaged in money laundering" in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Danske Bank A/S, described as "a Danish multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding funds allegedly associated with crypto fraud and money laundering in USA v. Funds in accounts at Binance in the names of Abhishek Dixit, Sunil Kumar, and Poonam Singla, described as citizens of India, filed at the U.S. District Court

Criminal Indictment alleging fraud, including "Campaign Finance" fraud, and money laundering involving the FTX crypto group in USA v. Samuel Bankman-Fried at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.