A 48-year-old Indo-Canadian entrepreneur has been detained by a district court in the US following his indictment on charges of laundering Bitcoin valued over USD 24 million at the time of the transaction, the Department of Justice said.
Indo-Canadian charged with laundering bitcoin worth over $24 mn in US A district court in the US has ordered detention of an Indo-Canadian entrepreneur
In October of 2021 the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) announced that it had obtained 11.9 million confidential files relating to "offshore" accounts and entities.
As American and Canadian authorities ramped up investigations into rogue Montreal-based money transfer mogul Firoz Patel in 2017, he flew to the United Arab Emirates and set up a secret offshore corporation, leaked documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists show.