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UK Payments Group Director Found Guilty of AML Violations

By Koos Couvée

CORRECTION APPENDED: The former chairman of a now-defunct trade group that represented the U.K. payment services industry faces jail time after a gang of Chinese fraudsters moved the proceeds of a boiler room fraud through his money services business in London. Dominic Thorncroft, 56, who ran the Association of U.K. Payment Institutions, or AUKPI, from 2005 to 2019, was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court in London on Wednesday of breaching U.K. anti-money laundering regulations and "retaining a wrongful credit." The verdict represents a fall from grace for a man who, during his stint at AUKPI, "promoted himself as an...

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