Team America to launder $24m North Korean cash through Russia
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From Casino Pyongyang with love "He likes to gamble, feast on Korean food and take late-night tipples of cognac with his friends. He is also said to spend hours rejuvenating from his nocturnal adventures in the city's saunas." The Asia Times, on North Korean dauphin Kim Jong Namâ¦
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Switzerland approved on Friday the handover of bank documents to the United States on the source of a donation to a U.S.-based Islamic charity suspected of money laundering and recruiting terrorists over the Internet.
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Prosecutors made a second request for a warrant to arrest a former finance ministry official caught up in the sale of the Korea Exchange Bank to Lone Star Funds, a private equity fund in the United States. In making the request, the government added accusations of bribery and distorting evidence against the former official, Byeon Yang-ho. Mr. Byeon, who headed the financial policy bureau in 2003 when Lone Star acquired a 50.5 percent stake in Korean Exchange for $1.5 billion, is accused of conspiring to overstate the bankÂs financial problems to reduce the price. The Seoul Central District Court plans to hold a hearing this week on the request for the arrest warrant. Lone Star canceled its plan last week to sell the stake to Kookmin Bank for $7.4 billion.
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North Korea today took possession of about $25 million in funds previously frozen by a Treasury Department investigation, potentially clearing the way for Pyongyang to fulfill its commitment to shut down an aging nuclear reactor.
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An American company is accused of secretly funneling money to powerful Chinese government officials to ensure a lucrative banking contract.
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LONDON, December 6  - The South Korean memory chipmaker, Samsung Electronics Company (SSUN.FSE), said today that it intends to invest approximately 25 trillion won ($24 billion; Â£12.36 billion) in building new chip production lines in
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U.S. buyout fund Lone Star said on  Thursday it was ending an agreement to sell Korea Exchange Bank  (004940.KS) to Kookmin Bank (060000.KS) in a $7.3 billion deal,  which has been subject to a long-running prosecutor probe.
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic  - North Korea's embassy in Prague has demanded that the film Team America: World Police be banned in the Czech Republic, saying the movie harms their country's reputation, a report said Saturday.
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A U.S. arms-control organization agreed Monday to supply the money for a railroad bridge necessary for Russia to destroy nearly 2 million chemical munitions stored in desolate southeastern Siberia.
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A gang of armed robbers from the former Soviet Union took in more than &#36;1 million from heists including the robbery of a Manhattan jewelry store, according to court documents released Monday.
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British anti-terror investigators seize Â£240,000 from a Muslim activist jailed in the US for illegal financial dealings.
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Outsourcing services provider Achievo, which has much of its operations based in China, has raised $24 million from private and institutional investors, the company announced Monday.
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The U.S. Defense Department said on Thursday it was awarding what might have been its richest-ever single contract at $24 billion, but it erred by a factor of 1,000.
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US lawmakers Thursday voted to cut 20 million dollars from US funding for the UN Development Program, over claims Stalinist North Korea plundered money from the organization.
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âI can confirm British Ambassador, David Slinn and other foreign diplomats (Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and Mongolia) were today taken by North Korean officials to Samsu in the north-east of the country, where a hydro electric power
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Bank of New York (BK:NYSE - news - research) reportedly faces a $24 million fine to avoid a criminal indictment for allegedly failing to report suspicious activity at one of its branches.
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The Russian government will auction off Yuganskneftegas, the main production unit of embattled oil giant Yukos, on December 19 with a starting price of 246.75 billion rubles (8.65 billion dollars), the federal property fund announced.