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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Coutts & Company £8.75m for failing to take reasonable care to establish and maintain effective anti-money laundering (AML) systems and controls.
Police have arrested three men on suspicion of fraud and money laundering after The Pensions Regulator (TPR) received complaints about pension transfers last year.
Four senior staff at Tudor Capital Management have been charged with stealing £5m through tax fraud targeting the pension industry.
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Andrew Meeson, the president of the Association of Tax Technicians (ATT), has stepped down from his post due to money laundering investigation.
Two members of staff at a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) office have been arrested following a police raid.
The government today published proposals for reforming the anti-money laundering requirements on businesses.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) officers have arrested 15 people as part of an investigation into suspected money laundering offences in excess of £200m.
A 69 year old man who tried to smuggle £60,000 in laundered money notes out of the UK by hiding it in his underwear, has been ordered to repay HMRC what he owes or face jail.
Standard Life has been ordered by the Pensions Ombudsman (PO) to reconsider its decision to pay pension benefits to a deceased policyholder’s mother instead of his ex-wife.
Plum Software has partnered with identity management specialists GB Group to launch an electronic identity checking service to help IFAs avoid breaching FSA regulations.
Jersey risks advertising itself as a ‘safe haven’ for tax evaders if it does not extradite an alleged British fraudster involved in advising Crocodile Dundee actor Paul Hogan, says a lawyer at the hearing.
A corporate financial advice firm has been fined £49,000, and a board member £17,500, for leaving the company exposed to money launderers.
Changes to EU money laundering rules are likely to mean advisers will have to check the identity of trust beneficiaries before the trust can be set up, it is understood.
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