Financial crime trends in 2023
Predictions for 2023 in financial crime Where is financial crime heading? Where will enforcement be focused? With financial crime costs rising for law enforcement, investigations, compliance and...
View ArticleA potpourri of bribery, Canada, Russian organized crime, Russian Oligarchs...
How organized crime used to work in Russia This is not a story but a potpourri of interesting events involving bribery, extortion, attempted murder, banking, Russian organized crime, Oligarchs and...
View ArticleIndia seeking extradition of alleged listed terrorists in Canada
Arshdeep Dalla The Government of India has designated Arshdeep Singh Gill (Gill) on its list of designated terrorists under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. Gill lives in Canada and is...
View ArticleThe Canadian mining race for clean tech minerals – on land and in the deep-sea
Canada is racing to become a mining superpower but will its investments be enough? Clean Tech Energy Transition Late in 2022, Canada announced a series of new strategies aimed at re-igniting the...
View ArticleThe 1st Rare Earth Elements Securities Fraud Case – A Retrospective
YBM was Canada’s Wirecard 30 years ago. It remains one of the most surreal criminal cases 30 years ago this month, in February 1993, Russian organized crime leaders set a plan in motion to infiltrate...
View ArticleThe ludicrous story of the bombing of Nord Stream
A scuba diving fairy tale On March 8, 2023, several news organizations, including the New York Times, published a story emanating from an investigation they say they undertook in which they allege that...
View ArticleVancouver’s Dr. Death and our terrorism ties
I’ve written before on the story of how a Vancouver public company’s main source of revenues was supplying the precursor drug which allowed Mexican drug cartels to cook crystal meth in underground...
View ArticleCold War : The CIA Says it Blew up a Russian Gas Pipeline in 1982 with...
The true but untrue tale of spies, murder, economic warfare, and sanctions Introduction In 2004, a most unusual story appeared in a spy book written by a person named Thomas Reed (“Reed”), who worked...
View ArticleNew twists in the alleged Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp. assisted murders...
Vancouver’s most infamous heroin supplier, Naji Sharifi Zindashti, and his trial in Turkey involving Vancouver Corruption, heroin, and murders If you’re from Vancouver, you know the story of how, in...
View ArticlePart 3: Smoke and Mirrors—How Cobalt 27’s Barter IPO Turned Warehouse Metal...
The Champagne Trade That Moved Markets The champagne was flowing at Cobalt 27’s Toronto headquarters on the evening of December 8, 2017. The Canadian company had just executed a 720-ton cobalt purchase...
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