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Feds go after Tamaulipas governor with charges of illicit enrichment, money laundering The governor has been implicated in a billion-peso corruption scheme
Published on Wednesday, February 24, 2021
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The federal government is seeking to prosecute Tamaulipas Governor Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca for ties to organized crime, illicit enrichment and tax fraud.
The Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and the Finance Ministry’s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) have accused the National Action Party governor of involvement in a scheme that laundered 42 million pesos (US $2 million) using two fraudulent companies.
Their investigation stemmed from a criminal complaint filed against García by private citizens who accuse the governor of illicit enrichment to the tune of 951 million pesos (US $46.3 million).
February 5, 2021
PayPal India will shut down its payment gateway business in India from April 1, 2021 onward, but it will continue to provide payments services for cross-border trade, a spokesperson from the company said in a statement. The company processed $1.4 billion worth of sales for more than 360,000 merchants in the country in 2020, they said.
The company at present has a payments gateway business and cross-border trading platform, enabling local businesses to export their products abroad. “We believe PayPal can have the greatest positive impact in India’s economic recovery by pivoting our business to support our customers where they need us most. From 1 April 2021, we will focus all our attention on enabling more international sales for Indian businesses, and shift focus away from our domestic products in India. This means we will no longer offer domestic payment services within India from 1 April,” a spokesperson for PayPal said.
January 18, 2021
The Delhi High Court on Monday stayed a penalty issued by the Finance Ministry’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) against PayPal Payments Private Limited, the global payments giant’s Indian arm, according to LawStreet India. In December 2020, the FIU imposed a ₹96 lakh penalty against PayPal India over non-compliance with norms laid out in the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA).
PayPal filed a case with the Delhi High Court challenging the FIU penalty earlier this year. While the court has stayed the penalty, subject to PayPal providing a bank guarantee, it has asked the Reserve Bank of India and the Ministry of Finance to clarify its stance on companies like PayPal’s reporting to the FIU.