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Midweek Roundup: U.K. Hacking Investigation Adds Money Laundering Probe, Ex-Filipino Chief Justice Impeached for Not Declaring Income, And More

British law enforcement officials arrested an unnamed woman Monday for allegedly laundering money in connection with the phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid, The Wall Street Journal reported. The arrest is part of a larger investigation of the shuttered publication and its parent company News Corp. More Organized crime groups in the United Kingdom are stealing attorneys' identities and, using litigation and alternative dispute resolution to launder illicit proceeds, according to Monday's Law Society Gazette, citing a report by The Law Society and the Solicitors Regulation Authority. More The report, which summarizes key money laundering risks...

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