LATVIAN PROSECUTORS CHARGE BANKERS WITH LAUNDERING €2.1 BILLION

On 29 July, OCCRP reported that Latvian prosecutors have charged a shareholder and top managers of the country’s erstwhile third largest bank, ABLV, with laundering €2.1 billion through a network of shell companies. Also to go on trial is the manager of the shell company provider investigated by OCCRP.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/16627-latvian-prosecutors-charge-bankers-with-laundering-2-1b-euro

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SERBIA: DEALS FOR COMPANIES DESPITE US SANCTIONS FOR ALLEGED CRIME TIES

On 29 July, an article from Rferl reported claims that companies linked to Serbian nationals who have been blacklisted by the US for alleged organised crime ties and activities continued to win the equivalent of millions of dollars in state contracts by the Serbian government.  It says that companies registered to Radule Stevic, Zvonko Veselinovic, and Milan Radoicic won construction contracts in Serb-dominated northern Kosovo as well as inside Serbia.

https://www.rferl.org/a/serbia-construction-contracts-united-states-blacklisted-corruption-investigation/31965568.html

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