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August 19, 2025, 11:25 pm
Israeli-founded AI startup raises $60m to help governments fight financial fraud
IVIX’s software leverages artificial intelligence to help regulators spot money-related crimes, such as money laundering, sanctions evasion and tax non-compliance
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative: A money changer counts notes at his shop in the Lebanese capital Beirut on September 22, 2022. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
October 26, 2024, 1:49 am
Global anti-money laundering watchdog adds Lebanon to ‘gray list’
Financial Action Task Force says move ‘shouldn’t impede relief efforts’ amid Israel-Hezbollah fighting, grants Beirut ‘degree of flexibility as it relates to the deadlines’
By AFP
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro addresses the the Summit of the Future at the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, September 23, 2024. (Richard Drew/AP)
September 24, 2024, 8:56 am
Anti-money laundering group suspends Colombia after president’s Israeli spyware claims
Egmont Group says Gustavo Petro shared confidential information about previous government’s alleged purchase and use of Pegasus software
By AP and ToI Staff
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao leaves the US District Court on November 21, 2023, in Seattle, Washington (David Ryder / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
April 30, 2024, 10:46 am
Binance founder faces sentencing for allowing money laundering, some for Hamas and Iran
Crypto giant’s Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to charges; US prosecutors ask for 3-year term, say no one has disregarded Bank Secrecy Act to violate sanctions at that scale before
By AP
Israeli forces seized around NIS 10 million from nine money exchange branches in the West Bank overnight during a raid on companies found to be transferring funds to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, December 28, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 28, 2023, 11:56 pm
5 West Bank money exchange firms to be blacklisted over transfers to Hamas, PIJ
21 arrested, $2.8 million seized in overnight raids on 9 branches of companies across West Bank
By ToI Staff
Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on August 14, 2017. (Flash90)
December 23, 2022, 5:23 pm
Charges dropped against Israeli diamond tycoon suspected of money laundering
Beny Steinmetz, who has been convicted of corruption in Switzerland, to pay NIS 17 million as part of civil forfeiture deal with prosecutors
By AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, poses for a photo with USM Holdings founder, businessman Alisher Usmanov during an awarding ceremony in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, January 26, 2017. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
September 27, 2022, 4:13 pm
German authorities raid yacht linked to sanctioned Russian oligarch
Suspect identified as Alisher Usmanov, a close ally of Vladimir Putin; he is suspected of breaching sanctions and money laundering rules, officials say
By AP and ToI Staff
Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at a press conference in Ramat Gan, August 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
August 31, 2022, 4:57 pm
Israel sanctions 20 people and companies accused in Hamas money laundering front
Defense Minister Gantz says terror group manages hundreds of millions in investments through a network of shell companies in various countries
By ToI Staff
Illustrative. A computer hacker. (Peshkov/ iStock)
August 15, 2022, 9:13 pm
3 arrested in Israeli probe of crypto scheme that defrauded the French government
Covert investigation by Israel’s special crime unit, Lahav 433, has uncovered money-laundering scam that saw millions of euros swindled from Paris treasury
By Jeremy Sharon
Petah Tikva mayor Rami Greenberg on December 5 2017. (Rami Greenberg/ Wikipedia CC-BY-4.0)
August 10, 2022, 9:19 am
Petah Tikva mayor arrested on suspicion of bribery, fraud and breach of trust
Rami Greenberg detained along with municipality’s director-general and 2 businesspeople; attorney protests arrest on day of Likud primary
By Ash Obel and ToI Staff
A visual representation of Bitcoin, at the 'Bitcoin Change' shop in Tel Aviv, February 6, 2018. (Jack Guez/AFP)
May 30, 2022, 6:01 pm
Hungary busts massive Israeli-led fraud and money laundering ring
Promising ‘good returns’ on cryptocurrency investment, gang cheats victims out of tens of millions of dollars; less than $2 million recovered so far
By AFP
Visitors outside the Louvre Museum, in Paris on April 29, 2022. (AFP)
May 27, 2022, 11:36 am
Ex-Louvre director charged with fraud in acquisition of ancient Egyptian artifacts
Jean-Luc Martinez accused of money laundering, ‘concealing the origin of criminally obtained works’ bought for French museum’s Abu Dhabi branch
By Murielle Kasprzak and Joseph Schmid
General view of the Lahav 433 police unit headquarters in the city of Lod, on November 4, 2019. (Flash90)
May 9, 2022, 5:53 pm
Over 20 arrested in alleged half-billion-shekel money laundering ring
Police raid homes, businesses and financial service providers, seizing tens of million of shekels of assets following months-long undercover probe
By Michael Horovitz
A general view of the Marina district towers is seen from the observation deck of 'The View at The Palm Jumeirah' in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on April 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
March 5, 2022, 7:17 pm
Global body against money-laundering adds UAE to ‘gray list’
Financial Action Task Force lists Gulf state alongside 23 other countries; praises country’s ‘significant progress’ but says more needs to be done
By Jon Gambrell
Illustrative: In this June 16, 2013 file photo, users browse the Internet in an underground station in Hong Kong. (AP/Kin Cheung)
December 30, 2021, 7:36 pm
With criminals moving online, fraud is now Israel’s top illicit cash crop – ministry
Government report finds scams have become a more lucrative source of money than drug trafficking and physical theft, admits police are unequipped to deal with the phenomenon
By Simona Weinglass
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