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Weekly Roundup: Spain Details Accusations Against ICBC, Alleged JPMorgan Hacker Denies Charges, and More
printSpanish prosecutors claimed in a court filing published this week that a Chinese criminal syndicate used Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to transfer roughly $102 million of criminal proceeds that had been delivered in black boxes to the bank's branch in Madrid from 2011 to 2014, Reuters reported. Six bank directors have been arrested as part of the case. More Much of the conduct that led Singapore's central bank to revoke BSI SA's license last month began seven years ago, when the Swiss private lender poached Yak Yaw Chee and 70 other bankers from local Royal Bank of Scotland...
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Weekly Roundup: FIFA Official Extradited, UniCredit to Settle Tax Investigation in Germany, and More
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