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> What's happened to Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society?

The website of Bangladesh's Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd (Destiny Co-op) wants its customers to wait while the site is updated. But it's a bit more complicated than they say. First, the banking regulator, Bangladesh Bank, says that the company has been operating outside its authorisation - and that's the least of the problems.

> 419 scam launderer convicted - but he didn't commit the fraud

R v Peter Oyewor (2012) will probably never hit the law reports. It's a small case in a small court in a small town. But it's a startlingly important case for money laundering risk officers for both prosecutors and defence lawyers.

> Prime Bank Schemes back in vogue?

Prime Bank Schemes, along with standby letters of credit scams were a big feature of the 1980s and 1990s but fell out of favour, in part it seems because there were easier and quicker ways of extracting money from victims. Both the Prime Bank and the Standby Letters of Credit scheme require a more sophisticated - and generally more wealthy - victim than the more common advance fee fraud cases.

> Afghan takeaway used airline food trays

Regular readers have come to expect headlines that obliquely, and hopefully humorously, reference a serious issue. There are few more serious than those revealed by a report by Afghanistan's anti-corruption agency into the failure, rescue and conduct of Kabul Bank.

> How banks lost GBP49 million to two fraudsters in a mortgage con

The two men behind the UK's biggest mortgage fraud - at least the biggest for which proceedings have been taken - included the purchase of a cowshed and an abandoned air base.

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> Expanded distribution for WMLR

World Money Laundering Report's e-book edition, distributed by Amazon.Com for the Kindle and Kindle Apps for iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows and Blackberry, is now available through Amazon's sites in the UK, Germany, Japan, France and, of course, the USA. In addition, it is available in India through the dedicated India section of the Amazon.Com website.

But there's even more news from Amazon: for subscribers to the Amazon Prime service, now WMLR is available under the Lending Library Scheme. For borrowers, there is no additional charge beyond their Prime subscription. And, due to Amazon.Com's royalty scheme, we receive payment from Amazon for each "lend."

Prime subscribers can also borrow copies of Nigel Morris-Cotterill's book "How Not to be a Money Launderer"

The lending library scheme was recently extended beyond the USA to cover Prime subscribers in the UK, Germany, France and Japan.

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