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Shell Admits Dealing With Money Launderer

Shell has admitted for the first time it dealt with a convicted money-launderer when negotiating access to a vast oil...

International

Shell Admits Dealing With Nigerian Criminal

Shell has admitted for the first time it dealt with a convicted money-launderer when negotiating access to a vast oil...

Business

New Banking Regulations Will Promote Sector – BoG Assures

A deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Johnson Asiama, has urged financial institutions to see regulatory requirements...

International

Shell Admits Dealing With Money Launderer

Shell has admitted for the first time it dealt with a convicted money-launderer when negotiating access to a vast oil...

Business

Regulatory Requirements Not Impediments – BoG

Dr. Johnson Asiama says financial institutions should not see regulatory requirements as impediments. According to him,...

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BoG To Name Institutions That Flout Anti-Money Laundering Acts

The Bank of Ghana(BoG) has hinted that it will soon publish sanctions for financial institutions who do not comply with...

International

Credit Suisse Offices Searched In Tax Evasion Probe

In an internationally coordinated investigation, authorities in five countries searched offices of Swiss banking giant...

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Gold Bar and Cars Seized As Dutch Trigger Multi-Country Tax Raids

Dutch prosecutors say they have launched co-ordinated raids in several countries against suspected money-launderers and...

Business

Gov’t Intensifies War On Corruption and Money-Laundering

Government has expressed its commitment to the implementation of Ghana’s Beneficial Ownership Disclosure (BOD)...

International

Law Firm At Heart of Panama Papers A Shadow of Its Former Self

Panama has a new tourist attraction: the building hosting the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the heart of...

Business

Government To Crack Down On Financial Crimes

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has announced that Ghana will soon institute measures to deepen collaboration...

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GIABA Holds Workshop On Revised FATF Methodology

The Akufo-Addo administration has re-affirmed Ghana’s commitment to fight money laundering, terrorism financing,...

Business

Ghana Risks Being Blacklisted Over Anti-Money Laundering Policy

Ghana has been cited as one of the countries in the world where money laundering activities grew in 2016 and has...

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Beneficial Ownership

On Thursday, February 2, 2017, and Friday, February 3, 2017, the Ghana Integrity Initiative, the Ghana chapter of...

Business

Twenty-Five Banks Flout Law

Only five banks out the 30 have transferred their records to the Public Records and Archives Administration (PRAAD) as...

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Challenges, Solutions and Strategies For Lawyer Akoto Apaw, Incoming Special Prosecutor

The latest news coming from Ghana my motherland is that, President Akufo-Addo has settled on lawyer Akoto Ampaw as the...

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Chairman Being Autocratic – Minority

The Minority in Parliament is accusing the Chairman of the Appointments Committee of Parliament of behaving like an...

Opinion

Will The Old Guard Kleptocrats Who Milked Mother Ghana For 8 Years Be Allowed To Keep Their Ill-Gotten Wealth?

Well the elections in Ghana have at long last come and gone. Ghana has survived and put to shame all the naysayers and...

International

Hacks At Russian Central Bank Have Cost 2 Billion Rubles

Hackers in 2016 stole 2 billion rubles -- equivalent to $31 million -- from accounts that banks keep at Russia's...