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Category: Laundering Litigation

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Illicit Financial Flows

Complaint filed against French banks for money laundering and concealment of proceeds from illegal deforestation in the Amazon

Sherpa, supported by Harvest, the Center for Climate Crime Analysis (CCCA), Repórter Brasil and Transparency International, filed a complaint with the French National Prosecutor’s…
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Corporate Influence

Auchan and fairwashing – Appeal juges rule in favor of the multinational : case is dismissed again

The Court of Appeal has just confirmed the decision to dismiss the case in favour of Auchan: according to them, there are no grounds…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Financing of Sarkozy’s 2007 presidential election by Libyan authorities: Airbus corruption cases in Libya face negotiated justice

Tomorrow, the Paris Judicial Court will confirm or dismiss the French equivalent of criminal transaction (CJIP) concluded between Airbus and the National Financial Prosecutor’s…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Condemnation of Rifaat al-Assad for money laundering and embezzlement confirmed by French Supreme Court

Paris, 7 September 2022 – Today, the French highest court has confirmed the condemnation of Syrian former vice president, Rifaat al-Assad, to four years…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Ill-gotten gains case against Rifaat al-Assad to be heard by the Supreme Court in France

Wednesday, the French highest court will confirm or overturn the condemnation of Syrian cacique to four years in prison for money laundering and embezzlement…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Large corruption schemes involving oil giant SBM Offshore: request for the opening of an investigation into French nationals’ involvement

Paris, 21 March 2022 – On Friday 18 March, Sherpa filed a complaint asking the French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) to open an…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Lebanese ill-gotten gains : Sherpa alongside the Collectif des Victimes des Pratiques Frauduleuses et Criminelles au Liban, filed a complaint before the Public Prosecutor in Luxembourg.

Given the terrible crisis in Lebanon and the investigations opened in France and Switzerland to shed light on the ill-gotten gains of Lebanese leaders,…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Rifaat Al Assad sentenced in France for his Ill-Gotten Gains allegedly fled to Syria

Paris, October 11, 2021 – The Syrian regime’s former dignitary recently sentenced in France to 4 years in prison for laundering Syrian public funds in…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Rifaat al Assad « Ill Gotten Gains » Case: The Paris court of appeal confirmed the condemnation decision rendered in first instance in 2020

Paris, 9 September 2021 – Today the Court of Appeal confirmed the judgment rendered by the Judicial Tribunal of Paris on June 17, 2020, sentencing Rifaat…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Teodorin Obiang definitively convicted in the “ill-gotten gains” case: a decision that puts the final dot on the chapter of confiscation and opens the restitution one.

Paris, July 29, 2021 – The Court of Cassation has just confirmed the conviction of the vice-president of Equatorial Guinea in the ill-gotten assets…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Ill Gotten Gains against Lebanese officials : opening of a preliminary investigation after Sherpa’s complaint

The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office has announced the opening of a preliminary investigation to be carried out by the Central Directorate of the Judicial…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Appeal trial of Rifaat al Assad in the Syrian Ill-Gotten Gains case

Paris, 5 May 2021 – Sherpa as civil claimant will take part in Rifaat al Assad’s appeal trial, which opens today. The uncle of Bashar al-Assad,…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Sherpa files a complaint before the French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office in a Lebanese Ill-Gotten Gains case

Sherpa, represented by its lawyers Maîtres William Bourdon and Amélie Lefebvre, is filing a complaint before the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office alongside the Collective…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Sherpa requests the opening of a judicial investigation with the status of civil claimant in the case of India’s Rafale deal

Paris, 28 April 2021 — Sherpa, represented by its lawyers Maîtres William Bourdon and Vincent Brenghart, is filing a complaint and requesting the opening of a…
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Illicit Financial Flows

Complaint in France against BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Natixis, CIC and Rivage Investment for money laundering and concealment

On September 30, 2020, Sherpa and the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation called on the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office to open an investigation for money…
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