Turn to Peru's Interior Ministry, which began a Web site today -- with "Wanted" plastered in red across its home page -- offering information on Mr. Montesinos, who is facing charges ranging from money laundering to running death squads.
Last year, the US authorities imposed a $1.9bn fine on HSBC for poor money laundering controls, prompting that bank to run down its activities in the money-service sector.
This deficient system "functionally financed criminal operations, especially allowing tellers to borrow seed money to run money laundering, gambling or loan sharking operations," the report said.
If you turn the entire industry into cash, everything you're trying to do to run a legitimate business looks like money laundering".
On Monday, the bank said it was promoting Robert W. Werner, who oversaw the group at the Treasury Department that enforces sanctions, to run a specially created division focused on anti-money laundering efforts.
Congressmen have been suspended for pirating and reselling cable-TV access, laundering illegally harvested wood and gold, running a brothel and lying about educational achievements on sword affidavits filed to run for office.
The Panama Papers uncovered a $2bn£1.6bnbn) money laundering scheme, run through Switzerland and the British Virgin Islands, in which a St Petersburg cellist appeared to be standing in as the beneficiary of a fortune amassed by the Russian president.
This involves collecting protection money from small businesses – known in italian as il pizzo – to running fake companies that launder the 'Ndrangheta's ill-gotten funds.
He pleaded guilty on Monday to running a continuing criminal enterprise and conspiracy to launder money.
In 2009, a money-laundering and corruption investigation ensnared 44 people, including several mayors, as well as a rabbi who pleaded guilty to running an illegal operation to sell kidneys to people needing transplants.
