Editing Money laundering (section)

==Notable cases==
{{Cleanup list|section|date=October 2024}}
[[File:1998 Senate Investigation Contribution Money Laundering.pdf|thumb|1998 investigation, [[United States Senate]], Contribution Laundering/Third-Party Transfers. Includes investigation of [[Gandhi Memorial International Foundation]].]]
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* [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]]: Unknown amount, estimated in billions, of criminal proceeds, including drug trafficking money, laundered during the mid-1980s.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Dictator-Run Bank That Tells the Story of America's Foreign Corruption |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/07/the-dictator-run-bank-that-tells-the-story-of-americas-foreign-corruption/ |website=Foreign Policy |access-date=29 October 2024}}</ref>
* [[Bank of New York]]: US$7&nbsp;[[1000000000 (number)|billion]] of Russian [[capital flight]] laundered through accounts controlled by bank executives, the late 1990s.<ref>{{Cite news |last=O'Brien |first=Timothy L. |date=9 November 2005 |title=Bank of New York Settles Money Laundering Case |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/business/09bank.html |access-date=3 March 2011 |archive-date=18 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240618214606/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/business/bank-settles-us-inquiry-into-money-laundering.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[BNP Paribas]], in June 2014, pleaded guilty to falsifying [[business records]] and [[Conspiracy (civil)|conspiracy]], having violated [[U.S. sanctions]] against Cuba, Iran, and Sudan. It agreed to pay an $8.9 billion fine, the largest ever for violating U.S. sanctions.<ref name="nytimes bnp admits guilt" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=FBI — Bank Guilty of Violating U.S. Economic Sanctions |url=https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/july/bank-guilty-of-violating-u.s.-economic-sanctions/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715004002/http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/july/bank-guilty-of-violating-u.s.-economic-sanctions/ |archive-date=15 July 2014 |access-date=14 July 2014 |publisher=Fbi.gov}}</ref>
* [[BSI Ltd|BSI Bank]], in May 2017, was shut down by the [[Monetary Authority of Singapore]] for serious breaches of anti-money laundering requirements, poor management oversight of the bank's operations, and gross misconduct of some of the bank's staff.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MAS directs BSI Bank to shut down in Singapore |url=http://www.mas.gov.sg/News-and-Publications/Media-Releases/2016/MAS-directs-BSI-Bank-to-shut-down-in-Singapore.aspx |access-date=2019-01-23 |website=www.mas.gov.sg |archive-date=29 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729063230/http://www.mas.gov.sg/News-and-Publications/Media-Releases/2016/MAS-directs-BSI-Bank-to-shut-down-in-Singapore.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[BTA Bank]]: $6 billion of bank funds embezzled or fraudulently loaned to shell companies and offshore holdings by the bank's former chairman and CEO [[Mukhtar Ablyazov]].<ref name="EWHC2788">{{Cite web |title=[2014] EWHC 2788 (Comm) |url=http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Comm/2014/2788.html |website=BAILII |access-date=31 July 2018 |archive-date=9 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709164004/http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Comm/2014/2788.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Charter House Bank]]: Charter House Bank in Kenya was placed under statutory management in 2006 by the [[Central Bank of Kenya]] after it was discovered the bank was being used for money laundering activities by multiple accounts containing missing customer information. More than $1.5 billion had been laundered before the scam was uncovered.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Bagnoli |first1=Lorenzo |last2=Bodrero |first2=Lorenzo |date=16 April 2015 |title=Charter House Bank: A Money Laundering Machine |url=https://correctiv.org/en/investigations/mafia-africa/articles/2015/04/16/charter-house-bank-money-laundering-machine/ |website=CORRECTIV |access-date=2 October 2017 |archive-date=17 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717144739/https://correctiv.org/en/investigations/mafia-africa/articles/2015/04/16/charter-house-bank-money-laundering-machine/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Danske Bank]] + [[Swedbank]]: $30 billion – $230 billion US dollars [[Danske Bank money laundering scandal|laundered through its Estonian branch]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Danske Bank reveals Estonian branch may have laundered $230 billion as CEO steps down - ACFCS {{!}} Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists {{!}} A BARBRI, Inc. Company |url=https://www.acfcs.org/news/419424/Danske-Bank-reveals-Estonian-branch-may-have-laundered-230-billion-as-CEO-steps-down.htm |access-date=2019-01-23 |website=www.acfcs.org |archive-date=23 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123223844/https://www.acfcs.org/news/419424/Danske-Bank-reveals-Estonian-branch-may-have-laundered-230-billion-as-CEO-steps-down.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=PYMNTS |date=2018-10-23 |title=Danske Handled $1T Plus In X-Border Payments |url=https://www.pymnts.com/news/security-and-risk/2018/danske-cross-border-payments/ |access-date=2019-01-23 |website=PYMNTS.com |language=en-US |archive-date=23 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123230824/https://www.pymnts.com/news/security-and-risk/2018/danske-cross-border-payments/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-10-15 |title=Danske Bank, Estonia – a technical review of the latest leak of data |url=https://grahambarrow.com/danske-bank-estonia-a-technical-review-of-the-latest-leak-of-data/ |access-date=2019-02-12 |website=GrahamBarrow.com |language=en |archive-date=13 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213005544/https://grahambarrow.com/danske-bank-estonia-a-technical-review-of-the-latest-leak-of-data/ |url-status=usurped }}</ref> This was revealed on 19 September 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Investigations into Danske Bank's Estonian branch {{!}} Danske Bank |url=https://danskebank.com/about-us/corporate-governance/investigations-on-money-laundering |access-date=2019-02-08 |website=danskebank.com |language=en |archive-date=11 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711134712/https://danskebank.com/about-us/corporate-governance/investigations-on-money-laundering |url-status=live }}</ref> Investigations by Denmark, Estonia, the U.K. and the U.S. were joined by France in February 2019. On 19 February 2019, Danske Bank announced that it would cease operating in Russia and the Baltic States.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Rubenfeld |first1=Samuel |last2=Chopping |first2=Dominic |date=2019-02-19 |title=Danske Bank to Shut Estonia Branch |language=en-US |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/danske-bank-to-shut-estonia-branch-11550595242 |access-date=2019-02-20 |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=20 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220073656/https://www.wsj.com/articles/danske-bank-to-shut-estonia-branch-11550595242 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-02-19 |title=Danske Bank pulls out of Russia, Baltics after money-laundering backlash |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-danske-bank-eu-regulator-idUSKCN1Q813R |access-date=2019-02-20 |archive-date=20 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220200004/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-danske-bank-eu-regulator-idUSKCN1Q813R |url-status=live }}</ref> This statement came shortly after Estonia's banking regulator Finantsinspektsioon<ref>{{Cite web |title=Finantsinspektsioon {{!}} Avaleht |url=https://www.fi.ee/et |access-date=2019-02-20 |website=www.fi.ee |language=et |archive-date=20 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220092629/https://www.fi.ee/et |url-status=live }}</ref> announced that they would close the Estonian branch of Danske Bank.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-02-19 |title=Estonia shuts Danske Bank branch at heart of money laundering saga |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/19/estonia-shuts-danske-bank-branch-at-heart-of-money-laundering-saga.html |access-date=2019-02-20 |website=CNBC |agency=Reuters |archive-date=20 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220160415/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/19/estonia-shuts-danske-bank-branch-at-heart-of-money-laundering-saga.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The investigation has grown to include Swedbank, which may have laundered $4.3 billion.<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 February 2019 |title=Swedbank May Have Handled More Than $4.3 Billion in Dirty Money |work=Bloomberg.com |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-20/swedbank-reportedly-behind-4-3-billion-in-suspicious-transfers |access-date=2019-02-20 |archive-date=20 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220190022/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-20/swedbank-reportedly-behind-4-3-billion-in-suspicious-transfers |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-02-20 |title=Estonia investigates alleged Swedbank link to money laundering scandal |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-danske-bank-moneylaundering-swedbank-idUSKCN1Q90RW |access-date=2019-02-20 |archive-date=20 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220154744/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-danske-bank-moneylaundering-swedbank-idUSKCN1Q90RW |url-status=live }}</ref> More at [[Danske Bank money laundering scandal]].
* [[Deutsche Bank]] was accused in a vast money laundering scheme, dubbed the [[Global Laundromat]], involving secret Russian accounts that were transferred from [[European Union]] banks in [[Estonia]], [[Latvia]] and [[Cyprus]] between 2010 and 2014. Newspaper sources estimated the total value of laundered currency to be as high as $80bn. The bank is also under investigation for its involvement in Europe's biggest banking scandal through Denmark's [[Danske Bank]], which laundered €200bn, also from Russian sources.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/17/deutsche-bank-faces-action-over-20bn-russian-money-laundering-scheme Deutsche Bank faces action over $20bn Russian money-laundering scheme] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240618214717/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/17/deutsche-bank-faces-action-over-20bn-russian-money-laundering-scheme |date=18 June 2024 }}. ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 2 August 2019</ref>
* [[United Arab Emirates]]' [[Dubai Islamic Bank]] was accused of "knowingly and purposefully" providing "financial services and other forms of material support to [[al-Qaeda]] operatives" when the terrorist group was planning the execution of the [[11 September attacks]] against the United States.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Malnick |first1=Edward |last2=Heighton |first2=Luke |date=21 June 2017 |title=UAE warned US it could end intelligence cooperation over 9/11 victims claims |work=The Telegraph |publisher=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/21/uae-warned-us-could-end-intelligence-cooperation-911-victims/ |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=21 June 2017 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/21/uae-warned-us-could-end-intelligence-cooperation-911-victims/ |archive-date=11 January 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In addition, the [[Sharjah]] branch of [[Standard Chartered Bank]] was also involved in opening the accounts of the terror operatives and allowing financial transactions to take place between them and [[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed]], "the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks".<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 May 2021 |title=The Guantanamo Docket |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/guantanamo/detainees/10024-khalid-shaikh-mohammed |access-date=25 July 2019 |archive-date=30 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730015411/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/guantanamo/detainees/10024-khalid-shaikh-mohammed |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[FinCEN Files]]: On 21 September 2020, The [[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists]] (ICIJ) revealed FinCEN Files, about the involvement of about $2tn of transactions by some of the world's biggest banks.<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 September 2020 |title=Inside scandal-rocked Danske Estonia and the shell-company 'factories' that served it |url=https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/inside-scandal-rocked-danske-estonia-and-the-shell-company-factories-that-served-it/ |access-date=21 September 2020 |website=International Consortium of Investigative Journalists |archive-date=22 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922164033/https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/inside-scandal-rocked-danske-estonia-and-the-shell-company-factories-that-served-it/ |url-status=live }}</ref> FinCEN files also revealed that Dubai-based Gunes General Trading, based in Dubai funneled Iranian state money via UAE's central banking system and processed $142 million in 2011 and 2012.<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 September 2020 |title=FinCEN Files: UAE central bank failed to prevent Iran sanctions evasion |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54176127 |access-date=21 September 2020 |archive-date=24 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210324132617/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54176127 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Fortnite]]: In 2018, Cybersecurity firm [[Cybersixgill|Sixgill]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Evdokimova |first=Tamara |date=24 January 2019 |title=Criminals Are Using Fortnite to Launder Money |url=https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/fortnite-video-games-money-laundering-scams.html |access-date=2023-08-04 |website=Slate |archive-date=4 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230804203002/https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/fortnite-video-games-money-laundering-scams.html |url-status=live }}</ref>  discovered that [[Credit card fraud|stolen credit card details]] may be used to purchase Fortnite's [[Virtual economy|in-game currency]] (V-Bucks) and in-game purchases, for the account to then be sold online for "clean" money.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cuthbertson |first=Anthony |date=2019-01-13 |title=How children playing Fortnite are helping to fuel organised crime |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/fortnite-v-bucks-discount-price-money-dark-web-money-laundering-crime-a8717941.html |access-date=2019-01-21 |website=The Independent |language=en |archive-date=14 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114213715/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/fortnite-v-bucks-discount-price-money-dark-web-money-laundering-crime-a8717941.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2019-02-08 |title=Red Envelopes, Fortnite, Micro Money Laundering |url=https://www.pymnts.com/fraud-attack/2019/red-envelopes-fortnite-money-laundering-criminal/ |access-date=2019-02-08 |website=PYMNTS.com |language=en-US |archive-date=1 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401001143/https://www.pymnts.com/fraud-attack/2019/red-envelopes-fortnite-money-laundering-criminal/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Epic Games]], the makers of Fortnite, responded by urging customers to secure their accounts.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shanley |first=Patrick |date=16 January 2019 |title=Epic Games Responds to 'Fortnite' Money Laundering Accusations |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/epic-games-responds-fortnite-money-laundering-accusations-1176602 |access-date=2019-01-21 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en |archive-date=17 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117021026/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/epic-games-responds-fortnite-money-laundering-accusations-1176602 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[HSBC]], in December 2012, paid a record $1.9 Billion fine for money-laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for drug traffickers, terrorists and sanctioned governments such as Iran.<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 December 2012 |title=HSBC to Pay Record Fine to Settle Money-Laundering Charges |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/hsbc-to-pay-record-fine-to-settle-money-laundering-charges/ |access-date=24 January 2013 |archive-date=15 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115002041/http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/hsbc-to-pay-record-fine-to-settle-money-laundering-charges/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The money-laundering occurred throughout the 2000s.
* [[Institute for the Works of Religion]]: Italian authorities investigated suspected money laundering transactions amounting to US$218&nbsp;million made by the [[Institute for the Works of Religion|IOR]] to several Italian banks.<ref name="times-vatican">{{Cite news |last=Josephine McKenna |date=7 December 2009 |title=Vatican Bank reported to be facing money-laundering investigation |work=The Times |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6946507.ece |access-date=12 June 2010 |archive-date=10 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210224708/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Liberty Reserve]], in May 2013, was seized by United States federal authorities for laundering $6 billion.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2013-05-29 |title=U.S. accuses currency exchange of laundering $6 billion |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/net-us-cybercrime-libertyreserve-charges-idUSBRE94R0KQ20130529 |access-date=2019-01-23 |archive-date=23 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123223452/https://www.reuters.com/article/net-us-cybercrime-libertyreserve-charges-idUSBRE94R0KQ20130529 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Zetter |first=Kim |date=2013-05-28 |title=Liberty Reserve Founder Indicted on $6 Billion Money-Laundering Charges |url=https://www.wired.com/2013/05/liberty-reserve-indicted/ |magazine=Wired |issn=1059-1028 |access-date=2019-01-23 |archive-date=23 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180523202310/https://www.wired.com/2013/05/liberty-reserve-indicted/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-03-25 |title=Secret Service busts $6 billion money laundering scheme |url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/secret-service-busts-6-billion-money-laundering-scheme |access-date=2019-01-23 |website=Fox News |language=en-US |archive-date=23 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123223449/https://www.foxnews.com/world/secret-service-busts-6-billion-money-laundering-scheme |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Nauru]]: US$70&nbsp;billion of Russian capital flight was laundered through unregulated Nauru offshore shell banks, the late 1990s<ref name="NY times shack">{{Cite news |last=Hitt |first=Jack |date=10 December 2000 |title=The Billion Dollar Shack |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/10/magazine/the-billion-dollar-shack.html |access-date=3 March 2011 |archive-date=18 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111118011327/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/10/magazine/the-billion-dollar-shack.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Sani Abacha]]: US$2–5&nbsp;billion of government assets laundered through banks in the UK, Luxembourg, Jersey (Channel Islands), and Switzerland, by the president of Nigeria.<ref name="asset recovery abacha">{{Cite web |title=Sani Abacha |url=http://www.assetrecovery.org/kc/node/52f770df-a33e-11dc-bf1b-335d0754ba85.0;jsessionid=741FC522C872AFE4D5D201D4EEBB472F |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130502221120/http://www.assetrecovery.org/kc/node/52f770df-a33e-11dc-bf1b-335d0754ba85.0;jsessionid=741FC522C872AFE4D5D201D4EEBB472F |archive-date=2 May 2013 |access-date=3 March 2011 |publisher=Asset Recovery Knowledge Center}}</ref>
* [[Standard Bank]]: Standard Bank South Africa London Branch – The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Standard Bank PLC (Standard Bank) £7,640,400 for failings relating to its anti-money laundering (AML) policies and procedures over corporate and private bank customers connected to [[politically exposed person]]s (PEPs).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-01-23 |title=Standard Bank PLC fined £7.6m for failures in its anti-money laundering controls |url=https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/standard-bank-plc-fined-%C2%A376m-failures-its-anti-money-laundering-controls |access-date=2019-01-23 |website=FCA |language=en |archive-date=23 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123223406/https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/standard-bank-plc-fined-%C2%A376m-failures-its-anti-money-laundering-controls |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Standard Chartered]]: paid $330 million in fines for money-laundering hundreds of billions of dollars for Iran. The money-laundering took place in the 2000s and occurred for "nearly a decade to hide 60,000 transactions worth $250 billion".<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 December 2012 |title=Standard Chartered to Pay $330 Million to Settle Iran Money Transfer Claims |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/standard-chartered-to-pay-u-s-330-million-to-settle-iran-laundering-claims/ |access-date=24 January 2013 |archive-date=15 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115174202/http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/standard-chartered-to-pay-u-s-330-million-to-settle-iran-laundering-claims/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Westpac]]: On 24 September 2020, Westpac and AUSTRAC agreed to an AUD $1.3 billion penalty over Westpac's breaches of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 - the largest fine ever issued in Australian corporate history.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-09-24 |title=AUSTRAC and Westpac agree to proposed $1.3bn penalty |url=https://www.austrac.gov.au/news-and-media/media-release/austrac-and-westpac-agree-penalty |access-date=2020-12-31 |website=AUSTRAC |language=en |archive-date=27 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127113712/https://www.austrac.gov.au/news-and-media/media-release/austrac-and-westpac-agree-penalty |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Individuals===
* Jose Franklin Jurado-Rodriguez, a [[Harvard College]] and [[Columbia University]] Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Economics Department alumnus, was convicted in Luxembourg in June 1990 "in what was one of the largest drug money laundering cases ever brought in Europe"<ref>{{Cite news |last=McGee, Jim |date=18 June 1995 |title=FROM RESPECTED ATTORNEY TO SUSPECTED RACKETEER: A LAWYER'S JOURNEY |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/06/18/from-respected-attorney-to-suspected-racketeer-a-lawyers-journey/d60f376a-b7eb-4f48-8acb-8e5daf99fa4f/ |access-date=11 September 2017 |archive-date=15 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915113825/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/06/18/from-respected-attorney-to-suspected-racketeer-a-lawyers-journey/d60f376a-b7eb-4f48-8acb-8e5daf99fa4f/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and the US in 1996 of money laundering for the [[Cali Cartel]] kingpin [[Jose Santacruz Londono]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=RASHBAUM, William K. |date=12 April 1996 |title=HE ADMITS LAUNDERING DRUG CASH |work=New York Daily News |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/archives/news/admits-laundering-drug-cash-article-1.716159 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403185125/http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/archives/news/admits-laundering-drug-cash-article-1.716159 |archive-date=3 April 2019}}</ref> Jurado-Rodriguez specialized in "[[Smurfing (financial crime)|smurfing]]".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kochan, Nick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H-AoDwAAQBAJ&q=franklin+jurado+mba&pg=PT130 |title=The Washing Machine |date=2011 |publisher=Gerald Duckworth & Company |isbn=9780715642030 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[Ng Lap Seng]]: The Chinese billionaire real estate developer from [[Macau]] was sentenced to four years in prison<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chan |first=Sewell |date=11 May 2018 |title=Macau Tycoon Gets 4 Years in Prison for Bribing U.N. Diplomats |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/world/asia/macau-ng-un-bribery.html |access-date=5 May 2020 |archive-date=11 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511173411/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/world/asia/macau-ng-un-bribery.html |url-status=live }}</ref> in May 2018 for bribing two diplomats, including the former president of the [[United Nations General Assembly]], [[John William Ashe]], to help him build a conference center in Macau for the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), headed by Director [[Yiping Zhou]]. The corruption case was the worst financial scandal for the United Nations since the abuse of the Iraqi [[Oil-for-Food Programme|oil-for-food program]] more than 20 years ago. Ng Lap Seng, 69, was convicted in Federal District Court in Manhattan on two counts of violating the [[Foreign Corrupt Practices Act]], one count of paying bribes, one count of money laundering, and two counts of conspiracy.
* [[Ferdinand Marcos]]: Unknown amount, estimated at US$10&nbsp;billion of government assets laundered through banks and financial institutions in the United States, Liechtenstein, Austria, Panama, Netherlands Antilles, Cayman Islands, Vanuatu, [[Hong Kong]], Singapore, Monaco, the Bahamas, the Vatican and Switzerland.<ref name="bernstein-realestate">{{Cite news |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |date=13 January 1991 |title=Commercial Property: The Bernstein Brothers; A Tangled Tale of Americas Towers and the Crown |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/13/realestate/commercial-property-bernstein-brothers-tangled-tale-americas-towers-crown.html |access-date=12 June 2010 |archive-date=14 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114134628/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/13/realestate/commercial-property-bernstein-brothers-tangled-tale-americas-towers-crown.html |url-status=live }}</ref>