Prevention of money laundering articles
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End NPR 'money laundering'
The way to stop NPR’s taxpayer rape and misinformation machine is to prohibit its affiliates from providing any taxpayer funding for it.
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Binance founder sentenced to four months for money laundering
Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty and stepped down as CEO of the crypto trading company last yearChangpeng Zhao, the former head of the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading company, was sentenced to four months in jail on Tuesday in a Seattle courtroom. Zhao pleaded guilty late last year to money-laundering violations and stepped down as CEO of Binance. The company itself was fined $4.3bn. Zhao was fined $50m last year.Judge Richard Jones told Zhao that there were a number of mitigating factors in...
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New AI technique detects money laundering via cryptocurrencies
Blockchain is often criticised as a solution in search of a problem. But one group of people has already found immense value in the tech: money launderers. Their crimes cause painful headaches for financial institutions, crypto businesses, legitimate law enforcement agencies, and cryptocurrency regulators. All of them need to tackle illicit activity on blockchains. Enter Elliptic, a British firm that specialises in cryptocurrency forensics. The company uses blockchain analytics to protect...