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This "Asset Search News Roundup" discusses a letter rogatory from Italian prosecutors and the recent U.S. fines issued in the case involving India’s Satyam Computer Services.

  • A letter rogatory filed April 1st in federal court by the U.S. Attorney, reveals that Italian prosecutors are investigating the Delaware office of a company called "BACKER & MCKENZIE". 

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Today’s “Asset Search News Roundup” focuses on two publications by the anti-money laundering bellwether, the Financial Action Task Force.  This roundup too mentions a warning from the FinCEN financial intelligence unit about the potential movement of assets out of Egypt.

  • The Financial Action Task Force published various reports at its website last month.  Two

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Money mules and the former Tunisian president’s assets are covered by this “Asset Search News Roundup”:

  1. The Washington Post and FDIC previously outlined how some money launderers pretended to be employers to basically induce their so-called “employees” to wire transfer illicit funds as straw men.  These straw men commonly called money mules, were also just

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The January 21st "Asset Search News Roundup" talks about tracking Nazi-looted art; a proposed rule for detecting bank deposits by foreigners; and the Haitian money trail.

  1. The Swiss have made available on the Internet the "FDHA/FDFA Report on the State of Work on looted Art during the National Socialist era, in particular,

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“Secreting Assets Without A Border Trace” shows the role portable valuable commodities like diamonds can have in a scheme to hide assets.  This January 4th “Asset Search News Roundup” reviews two more ways assets can be hidden.

Bulk Cash Smuggling

A December 16th press release refers to one case now being prosecuted which…

Tax transparency, three African heads of state and Peruvian cultural artifacts, are the subjects of the November 15, 2010 “Asset Search News Roundup”:

  1. “Tax Transparency: Presentation of the Report on progress made against international tax evasion” published by the OECD, stressed the critical role of cross-border cooperation in fighting international tax fraud. 

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