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Lisa O. Monaco, Deputy Attorney General, says authorities have arrested the owner of China-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato for alleged money laundering, saying the move has "disrupted a busy corner of this criminal ecosystem." SOUNDBITE
The US Justice Department announces it is fining Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, a total of $4.3 billion over violations of anti-money laundering and sanctions laws. "This is one of the largest penalties we've ever obtained from a corporate defendant in a criminal matter," US Attorney General Merrick Garland tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen says Brussels will propose to freeze the assets of the Russian central bank, in a major escalation of sanctions against Moscow following the invasion of Ukraine. Speaking after a videoconference with the leaders of the United States, Germany, France, Italy and Canada, she says the Western allies "will paralyse the assets of Russia's central bank." SOUNDBITE
The EU says it will set up a stand-alone agency to crack down on money laundering across Europe where major banks have been hit by a wave of dirty money scandals. Many cases have involved northern countries such as Denmark, Sweden and Finland with a reputation for playing by the rules, but criminal gangs and terrorism are also a central concern. SOUNDBITE
Patrick Balkany arrives at the Paris Court of Appeal, which is due to sentence the former mayor of Levallois-Perret, a wealthy Paris suburb, for aggravated money laundering. At first instance, the court had sentenced Patrick Balkany to five years in prison. IMAGES
The son of former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Charles Sirleaf, is charged by a Monrovia court along with the former Liberian Central Bank governor Milton Weeks and another senior executives of economic sabotage, misuse of public money property or records, illegal disbursement and expenditure of public money, criminal conspiracy, and criminal facilitation, following a probe into missing banknotes. Two other senior executives who are still at large were also charged. IMAGES of Charles Sirleaf and other central bank officials arriving and leaving court
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