Canadian arrested in Macau for trying to defraud entertainment company out of US$284 million

A Canadian citizen was arrested in Macau on Friday for trying to defraud an entertainment company in the city out of US$284 million, according to local media reports.

The man, surnamed Leao, 61, is accused of using fake papers to try and transfer the money from the firm’s bank to an account in Hong Kong, Macau Daily reported on Sunday.

A clerk, however, refused the request after becoming suspicious when the signature on the documents Leao provided as authorisation for the transaction failed to match the one the bank had on record.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2183794/canadian-arrested-macau-trying-defraud-entertainment-company-out

Like the bitch ever was a republican

Meghan McCain: I Hate America Without My Father’s Leadership

Meghan McCain, co-host of ABC’s The View and daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), told CNN’s Van Jones in an interview broadcast Saturday that she hates the United States without her father’s leadership.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/26/meghan-mccain-i-hate-america-without-my-fathers-leadership/

This looks like it could be huge they raid a ECB and take documents

European Commission takes legal action against Slovenia over central bank raid

The European Commission is taking legal action against Slovenia’s government in Europe’s highest court, over Slovene police’s seizure of European Central Bank documents.

The police seized the ECB documents when they raided the Bank of Slovenia on July 6, 2016. Slovenia’s then finance minister resigned in protest at the police raid. ECB president Mario Draghi criticised it in very strong terms in a public letter to the Slovene government.

The EC said in a statement on January 24 that it was

https://www.centralbanking.com/central-banks/governance/3988516/european-commission-sues-slovene-government-over-raid-on-central-bank

Fate of anti-money laundering bills uncertain as quarrels among Iranian offcials continue

Jan. 26, 2019 - The more the fight over passing the four necessary bills to join the international anti-money-laundering body FATF continues between the Iranian regime’s Majlis (parliament), the Guardian Council, and Expediency Council, the more unclear its fate becomes.

Trying to persuade the members to pass the Palermo bill, Iranian regime president Hassan Rouhani sent his foreign minister, Javad Zarif, to the latest session of the Expediency Council, the body that arbitrates disputes between the Majlis. But with no avail. The Council decided to send the bill to specialized commissions for further review.

The Financial Actions Task Force (FATF) is the world’s de facto anti-money-laundering body and it also monitors and fights terrorism financing, both endeavors the Iranian regime is thoroughly entrenched in.

In order to comply with the FATF guidelines, countries need to pass appropriate bills that make its financial system transparent so that organized and large-scale terrorism-financing and money-laundering can’t go undetected.

This is very problematic for the Iranian regime and contrasts with its core beliefs and philosophy. But at a time when U.S. economic sanctions are snapping back, not complying with FATF standards will alienate the few remaining countries doing business with Iran that put petrodollars and short-term economic gains above everything else.

https://english.mojahedin.org/i/fate-fatf-iran-clear-mud