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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) welcome the decision of the U.S. Treasury Department to designate the Altaf Khanani Money Laundering Organisation as a Transnational Criminal Organisation. The Department also designated the Dubai-based money services business Al Zarooni which is linked to the Khanani Money Laundering Organisation.

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (Suisse) SA (BIL Switzerland) and Zuger Kantonalbank (ZGKB) have reached resolutions under the department’s Swiss Bank Program. These banks will collectively pay penalties totaling more than $13 million and continue to cooperate with the department.

An Alabama resident and U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee pleaded guilty Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama to conspiring to defraud the United States with respect to false claims, aggravated identity theft and embezzling mail, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama announced.

A resident of Charlotte, North Carolina, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of the Western District of North Carolina to conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina.

Two Miami residents pleaded guilty for their role in a stolen identity tax refund fraud conspiracy, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida announced on November 10.

A federal jury convicted Charles W. Parker Jr., 49, of College Park, Maryland, Tuesday of one count of conspiring to defraud the United States and six counts of filing false income tax returns.

A Hampton Bays, New York man was sentenced Tuesday to 63 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, for securities fraud and filing a false tax return.

A District of Columbia resident pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge stemming from his involvement in a far-reaching stolen identity refund fraud scheme in which he and others working with him obtained more than $315,000 through the filing of fraudulent federal income tax returns seeking refunds, the Justice Department announced.

The Department of Justice returned $1,126,951.45 in forfeited assets to the government of the Republic of Korea Monday. The forfeited assets were the profits of a public corruption scheme orchestrated by former Korean President Chun Doo Hwan in the 1990s, and were laundered to the United States by Chun’s family members and associates. The assets were forfeited in two recent United States civil forfeiture actions as part of the Department of Justice’s Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, which is coordinated by the department’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section.

A Liberty Township, Ohio, resident pleaded guilty to one count of obstructing and impeding the Internal Revenue Code, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bruce M. Salad of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.