Euro: Why criminals love the €500 note
La Vanguardia, Barcelona – The 500 euro note is a runaway success. Smugglers and money-launderers much prefer it to the dollar, making it the underworld's currency of choice. See more.
View ArticleCyprus: Money-laundering audit casts shadow over bailout
Amid the dramatic twists and turns of the Cyprus rescue funds crisis, the matter of the EU-sponsored probe to determine whether Cypriot banks launder money for Russian criminals has dropped off the...
View ArticleNuclear Energy: ‘Germany risks nuclear waste chaos’
In a ruling delivered on June 19, the higher administrative court in Schleswig, northern Germany, withdrew an authorisation to store nuclear waste at a temporary site in Brunsbüttel. In the light of...
View ArticleSpain: Laundering roubles on the Costa del Sol
Polityka, Warsaw – It's not just the climate drawing increasing numbers of Russians with fortunes that are more or less legal, to move to Marbella and Malaga. The authorities are likely to turn a blind...
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