Money laundering

Faster than a speeding fraud; significant adjustments; register schmegister; smoked out; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Credit Suisse Group AG faces a criminal probe amid suspicions it helped more than 2,600 clients to hide money in Swiss accounts, Belgian prosecutors said.

Two former Puerto Rico officials, along with the head of an accounting firm and three others, were indicted over allegations of theft, money laundering and wire fraud, escalating federal investigations that have been swirling around the bankrupt U.S. territory.

The bill that would force anonymous shell companies to disclose their actual ownership.

His boss pleaded guilty to helping wealthy clients hide assets worth at least 1.6 billion euros.

Denmark has reported the local operations of Ernst & Young and KPMG to the police amid a widening crackdown on money laundering in the country.

European Union finance ministers agreed to add 10 countries to a blacklist of alleged tax havens, including the United Arab Emirates and Bermuda, despite last-minute push-back by some EU nations.

A report that the lender was involved in money laundering is being probed in Denmark over the Estonian dirty-money scandal surrounding Danske Bank.

The bank was allegedly being used to launder billions of dollars in dirty money through its Estonian unit.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Bank Secrecy Act program, in which it is supposed to safeguard against money laundering, is having only a minimal impact on tax compliance, according to a new report.