White Collar Crime Case Studies
"White collar crime" is the polite name for non-violent financial crime.
So stealing by hacking into a computer is a white collar crime, stealing by hacking into the safe at a bank is not.
WhiteCollarCrimeCaseStudies.Com is a collection of cases relating to fraud, money laundering ( AML ), the financing of terrorism ( CFT ) and many other white collar crimes.
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- Definitions
- Cases
- Egmont Group - Case Studies
- About the Egmont Group Cases
- A gambler loses
- Abuse of power of attorney
- Account operated by terrorism suspect
- Advance Fee Fraudster Fixed
- Agent provocateur gambles on casino worker
- Back to back property deal facilitated laundering
- Bank clerk banked cheques to avoid reporting
- Bank clerk used non-bank transmitter
- Bank questioned whether documents were genuine
- Banks questioned business success
- Billing transfered to evade taxes
- Boomerang payments raised suspicion
- Bureau de change doing too much business
- Business account but no business
- Car repairs makes big profits.
- Cash by the truckload
- Cash in, wire out. Not so bright
- Charity related to UN listed person
- Charity used for terrorist financing (2)
- Charity used for terrorist financing (3)
- Charity used for terrorist financing (4)
- Charity used for terrorist financing
- Cheques designed to avoid cash transaction reporting cashed overseas
- Consolidating bank account balances
- Copier Copped
- Cross border payments makes FIU cross
- Cross-border deposits raised suspicion
- Cross-border smuggling of instruments isn't easy
- Currency exchange swapped bad money for good
- Currency smuggling and multipls accounts created complex scheme
- Diana's Wooden Top.
- Dormant account wakes up
- Drugs contained, money grabbed
- Drugs dealers set up formal business structure
- Drugs laundering scheme was not gold plated
- Egmont co-operation
- Embezzler moved money into own account
- Employee diverted cheques, thought no one would check
- Failed attempt to avoid cash transaction reporting
- False mortgage valuations produce property profits - hidden in accounts of friends and relatives
- Family members received payment for drugs deals
- Financial Fraudster Found.
- Financial industry professionals set up laundering scheme
- Financial institutions report another institution
- Foreign bank account received internet auction fraud proceeds
- Funds collected in numerous accounts
- Gambler lost laundered money
- Gambling chips used for laundering
- Geo-location as factor in suspicion
- Globetrotting Dirk gets socked
- Hawala used for terrorist financing
- If this pair had made one more mistake, it would have had to be something monumentally stupid
- If you want to launder lots, own the bank
- In, out, in, out, shake it all about
- Incompetent money launderer gets robbers investigated
- International co-operation in unrelated crimes
- International funds transfers raised suspicions.
- International laundering of proceeds of corruption
- Internet transfer of proceeds
- Investigators stole proceeds
- Jack, Jill and a very bitter pill.
- Jamesons Behind Bars
- Just Juan Cornetto: drugs launderer gets iced
- Just the customer you want - not
- Lack of background causes suspicion
- Large cash deposits with insufficient reason
- Laundered funds used as collateral for guarantee
- Lawyer spots laundering and stops it
- Lawyer used in terrorist financing
- Lawyer used the good name of his firm - for his bad dealings
- Lazy, thick - and jailed
- Living it large in a small place
- Loans officer doesn't get the credit
- Loans paid off in laundering scheme
- Love is blind- and if not, it can be very stupid
- Making money on the GGs
- Man faked job as bank representative
- Management Company was suspicious.
- Marvin's Millions
- Massaging profits
- Money launderer targets same bureau de change repeatedly
- Mortgage paid by laundered funds
- Mulitple threads built up a picture
- Multiple accounts, deposits in multiple currencies
- Multiple bank accounts, multiple countries but connections still made
- Never trust a man who denies his background
- New business too successful
- News items led to suspicion
- Nigerian Scam moneys moved by wire transfer
- Not so much cooking the books, as booking the cooks
- Notary used in laundering scheme
- PEP Popped and Girlfriend Got
- Paul's Gold
- Professional gambling as front for drugs trafficking and laundering
- Public officials PEP up their lives with taxpayers' money
- Read foreign news!
- Regular payments raised suspicion
- Regular, small deposits abused charity
- Remittance agents used for transfers
- Remittances withdrawn in cash
- Ridiculous explanation of source of funds raised suspicion
- Shady Shares
- Similarly named companies as disguising mechanism
- Slippery character butters up Customs.
- Small amount used as teaser for bank
- Small business, large turnover
- Sports-shoe shuffle
- Swings and roundabouts in carousel fraud
- The Bank Branch Marathon
- The long arm of the law can be held out for a long time
- The only time a builder worked quickly
- There's nothing new: why do people fall for "guaranteed" high-yield scams?
- Thief put money into wife's account
- Thieves stole a little, a lot - and someone thought they were dodging CTRs
- Trader on the Carpet.
- Transactions out of norm for business
- Transfers for no good reason
- Trustee used by launderers
- Use of business service providers in laundering schemes
- Use of letter of credit
- Use of travel agency bureau de change
- Well known criminal tries his hand at laundering, and gets his fingers burnt
- Why were these people moving money around?
- Definitions
- Cases
- Court says only jail will do in corruption cases
- Estate Agent took private commission
- Lecturer charged with selling grades
- Policeman took bribes and sexual favours in return for tip-offs
- Security guard bribed buildings manager
- Three years, one month jail for bribing Panamanian government official
- US company bribed Thai government officials in tobacco contracts
- Definitions
- Cases
- Clothes bore counterfeit trade marks
- Counterfeit brand shoes
- Counterfeiting on an industrial scale - UK
- Fake vodka factory at Moscow Farm
- GBP700 software for GBP3? That can't be right
- Golf club warehouse raided
- Illegal import of counterfeit computer games
- Printer's lucrative sideline ends in jail
- eBay seller pleads guilty to selling counterfiet brands



