In 2010, Lanny A. Breuer, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division, created a money-laundering task force that has collected more than $2 billion in fines from banks, a number that is set to double with the HSBC case.
Mr. Breuer has also focused on money-laundering, creating a task force in 2010 that has levied more than $3 billion in fines from banks, including the record fine against HSBC.
Antigua and Barbuda, once described by the US as a centre for money laundering, was recognised by an international task force in 2001 as being "fully cooperative" in the fight against the activity.
Two-and-a-half years after the death of General Augusto Pinochet, a report by the Chilean police task force charged with investigating money-laundering has claimed that British authorities and the financial sector were complicit in hiding his massive ill-gotten fortune.
The task force investigated the New Ansari Exchange money-laundering scandal, and was also responsible for the arrest of a number of senior police officers and senior officials of the government on charges of corruption, some of whom were later released by the government.
In fact, both operations were carried out as part of an interagency task force on financial crime and money laundering, chaired by Yevgeny Shkolov, Putin's old K.G.B. colleague, who was said to be Sugrobov's patron in the Kremlin.
The customs service's El Dorado Task Force, a multi-agency group that focuses largely on money laundering cases, arrested 15 members of the ring on Monday and seized 2,500 pounds of cocaine and $730,000 in cash at an old textile warehouse at 236 Greenpoint Avenue in Brooklyn, officials said.
In the province of Brabant - the "drugs barn of Europe" with 2,5 billion worth of weed production annually, and 19,8 billion of profits from XTC and amfetamine - a national task force has been fighting assassinations, violence, rip deals and money laundering since 2011.
The task force sets standards, like urging countries to adopt laws that make money laundering a crime and that authorize the extradition of suspects.
In 2007, the task force issued a report about the use of real-estate projects for money laundering.
The Federal Crime Office in Wiesbaden said a special task force had made its first arrest in a probe of Russian money-laundering, after years spent on investigating money transfers through Germany, Canada, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Spain.
