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It has been a year since South Africa (“SA”) was grey listed by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and under a year shy of having to demonstrate its improvements in bolstering anti-money laundering and financial crimes measures. ....
of the defunct Intercontinental Bank, continued on February 19, 2021 before Justice A.O. Faji of a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos with a witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Babatunde Aro, narrating how the defendant allegedly bypassed banking protocols to transfer $11.8million and £8.54million offshore without recourse to the bank’s standard procedures. fraud committed by him while he held sway at the Bank. He is alleged to have perpetrated the fraud using suspicious financial transactions. He pleaded “not guilty” to the allegations. Testifying as the fourth prosecution witness, Aro, who works with Access Bank Plc, as Head, Global Compliance Advisory, told the Court that he ....