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1 week ago | 
globalinvestigationsreview.com | Ana de Liz
Muireann Dennehy at GIR Live: Women in Investigations (Credit: GIR/Gordon Lyster) The head of anti-money laundering investigations at a Geneva private bank believes heightened regulatory scrutiny means Swiss financial institutions are increasingly checking that their clients’ money is “clean”. To read more Subscribe to Global Investigations Review Register for limited access Register to receive our newsletter and gain limited access to subscriber content.
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1 week ago | 
globalinvestigationsreview.com | Ana de Liz
GIR is proud to publish its fourth Women in Investigations survey, shining a spotlight on the wide variety of outstanding female practitioners in the field. The project highlights 100 exceptional women in the white-collar crime investigations world, from future leaders to established stars. We selected the final list from an open nomination process where GIR readers were encouraged to put forward practitioners with compelling reasons why they deserved to be featured.
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1 week ago | 
globalinvestigationsreview.com | Ana de Liz
Credit: Shutterstock/ArDanMe The Geneva-based private bank has been convicted in Switzerland for failing to take all reasonable measures to prevent the laundering of over $4 million of bribes paid on behalf of SBM Offshore. To read more Subscribe to Global Investigations Review Register for limited access Register to receive our newsletter and gain limited access to subscriber content.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalinvestigationsreview.com | Ana de Liz
Credit: iStock.com/Juanmonino An environmental advocacy group has alleged that JBS’s profits from the sale of cattle raised on illegally deforested land in Brazil are the proceeds of crime, meaning the New York Stock Exchange risks violating US money laundering laws by allowing JBS to list. To read more Subscribe to Global Investigations Review Register for limited access Register to receive our newsletter and gain limited access to subscriber content.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalinvestigationsreview.com | Ana de Liz |Fredrik Karlsson
From left to right: Maria González, Guillermo Jorge, Sergio Mattos, Guillermo Acuña and José Cortina at Latin Lawyer & GIR Live: Anti-Corruption & Investigations Mexico 2025 (Credit: GIR/Alicia Vera) Lawyers in both countries said investigative activity is picking up and other developments indicate that anti-corruption enforcement is on the rise.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalinvestigationsreview.com | Ana de Liz
Credit: Shutterstock/Matteo Benegiamo Lawyers expect the new unit within the country’s finance ministry to support US authorities, which have designated some cartels as foreign terror groups. International cooperation to tackle financial crimes by cartels “is no longer optional, it is a necessity,” said a Mexican public prosecutor.
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3 weeks ago | 
globalinvestigationsreview.com | Ana de Liz
Mexico Supreme Court building (Credit: Shutterstock/Octavio Hoyos) A former UBS Mexico employee’s LGBTQ+ discrimination lawsuit led to Mexico’s top court expanding corporate criminal liability. His lawyers are hopeful the decision will force companies to take compliance and diversity more seriously. To read more Subscribe to Global Investigations Review Register for limited access Register to receive our newsletter and gain limited access to subscriber content.
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3 weeks ago | 
globalinvestigationsreview.com | Ana de Liz
From late June, employees at UK companies will be protected from retaliation if they report suspected sanctions breaches to certain agencies. Lawyers don’t expect the changes to trigger a surge in whistleblowing. To read more Subscribe to Global Investigations Review Register for limited access Register to receive our newsletter and gain limited access to subscriber content.
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3 weeks ago | 
globalinvestigationsreview.com | Ana de Liz
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3 weeks ago | 
globalinvestigationsreview.com | Ana de Liz
EcoPetrol sign at the company building in Bogota (Credit: iStock.com/Anamaria Mejia) Colombian prosecutors are investigating whether the scope of work provided by the US law firm was “modified, apparently, without authorisation from the board of directors, as a strategy to intercept internal communications of officials”. To read more Subscribe to Global Investigations Review Register for limited access Register to receive our newsletter and gain limited access to subscriber content.
