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In 2022, Major General Carlos Garcia was sentenced to imprisonment by the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court for direct bribery, money laundering, perjury, and violation of articles of war by the General Court Martial of the AFP under Article 210, Revised Penal Code, Section 4 (b) of Republic Act 9160, and 96th and 97th Article of War by the ...
Rob Jones, the Director General of Operations at the NCA, described the operation as "the most significant money laundering operation that the NCA has undertaken in 10 years." [1] and that it had "exposed billion-dollar money laundering networks operating in a way previously unknown to international law enforcement". [20]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed criminal charges against Kapa-Community Ministry International and its executives, citing an investment scam. [7] [8] President Rodrigo Duterte was the first government official to announce the legal actions, doing so on June 8, 2019, when he ordered the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to shut down Kapa.
The Philippines is hopeful of being taken off the money laundering 'grey list' of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) of this year, the country's Anti-Money Laundering Council said on Tuesday.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte signed a law on Friday to strengthen anti-money laundering and terrorist financing regulations ahead of a Feb. 1 deadline set by a global financial watchdog.
Smartmatic is suing Fox News for $2.7 billion in damages for allegedly defaming it with coverage claiming its voting machines may have helped rig the 2020 U.S. election against then-President ...
The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...
A massive money-laundering case centered on the alleged theft of more than $1 billion from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company has expanded with new charges accusing a pair of financial asset ...