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CSSF CSSF Luxembourg Source document ↗
CSSF Luxembourg Financial Crime ✓ 16 claims 14 Oct 2026

CSSF warns of fraud scheme misusing former name of investment firm CORIENT S.A.

The CSSF has issued a short warning flagging a fraudulent website impersonating a legitimate Luxembourg investment firm by reviving its former name. The item matters for compliance teams tracking impersonation risk and for anyone handling client queries about entities purporting to operate from a Kirchberg address. It is brief and investor-protection focused.

  • CSSF flags fraudulent website www.arche-associes-lu.com reusing the former name "Arche Associés S.A." of investment firm CORIENT S.A.
  • The scheme claims a registered office at 37 b A, Avenue JF Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg, and is classified as identity theft and illicit activities.
  • CORIENT S.A., an authorised investment firm, is stated to have no connection to the fraudulent website.
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DOJ DOJ Criminal Division Source document ↗
DOJ Criminal Division United States Financial Crime ✓ 20 claims 13 Oct 2026

DOJ, NCA and tech firms remove 3.7 million scam accounts in West Africa disruption week

The Justice Department reported the results of a week-long international operation targeting scam centres in West Africa. For compliance leads at payments firms, exchanges and platforms, the notable feature is the roster of private-sector participants that voluntarily acted on their own networks, and the explicit call for more proactive industry disruption. This segment covers who took part, what was seized, and the obligations the model implies.

  • Industry partners reported removing more than 3.7 million accounts, Pages and Groups and sharing leads on over 30 suspected scam centres.
  • Authorities made 28 arrests — 19 in Ghana's Sasaabi suburb and nine in Nigeria — and identified at least $11 million in potentially freezable funds.
  • Ghana operation identified 117 trafficking victims pending repatriation to Nigeria and 89 scam victims with approximately $8.3 million in losses.
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FCA FCA Source document ↗
FCA United Kingdom Financial Crime ✓ 18 claims 13 Oct 2026

Two from Nexus advice firms plead guilty to fraud after clients lose £2m

A short item on an FCA criminal prosecution reaching guilty pleas. Two senior figures at two authorised advice firms have admitted defrauding four clients of £2m over four years, using false documents. The segment covers what was admitted, the firms' permissions, the FCA's intervention timeline and the confiscation action now coming.

  • Nelson and Stephens pleaded guilty on 12 October 2026 to defrauding four clients of £2m between January 2019 and January 2023 using false documents.
  • Nelson, the firms' director, also admitted a money laundering offence under the Proceeds of Crime Act; the FCA will seek confiscation.
  • The FCA restricted both Nexus firms from regulated activity on 25 January 2023; the High Court placed them into administration on 26 January 2023.
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FCA FCA Source document ↗
FCA United Kingdom Financial Crime ✓ 14 claims 12 Oct 2026

FCA wins confiscation orders against two men convicted over £1.5m crypto fraud

The FCA has secured Proceeds of Crime Act confiscation orders against two men already jailed for a cold-calling cryptoasset investment scam. This item covers what each must repay, the enforcement timeline, and the mechanism by which victims recover losses — a reminder of how long the asset-recovery tail runs after conviction.

  • Southwark Crown Court ordered Bedi to pay £603,404.28 and Mavanga £247,997.99 on 28 September 2026.
  • At least 65 investors lost £1,541,799 in a scheme run via CCX Capital and Astaria Group LLP between February 2017 and June 2019.
  • Non-payment within three months exposes Bedi to up to five further years' imprisonment and Mavanga up to two.
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DOJ DOJ Criminal Division Source document ↗
DOJ Criminal Division United States Financial Crime ✓ 21 claims 08 Oct 2026

Minnesota woman convicted in $3.6M Medicaid housing services fraud

A federal jury has convicted a Minnesota provider of billing a now-defunct Medicaid housing program for services never delivered, including hours supposedly worked by staff in other countries. The case is the DOJ Fraud Division's first announced Minnesota conviction and illustrates the data-analysis techniques prosecutors now bring to health care fraud trials.

  • Jury convicted Sharmaine Meadows on three counts of health care fraud; she faces up to 10 years per count at a later sentencing.
  • The HSS Program paid her company over $3.6 million between 2020 and 2025 into accounts she exclusively controlled.
  • Evidence included billing for staff in Illinois and the Philippines, hospitalised beneficiaries, and days exceeding 20 billed hours.
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DOJ DOJ Criminal Division Source document ↗
DOJ Criminal Division United States Financial Crime ✓ 19 claims 07 Oct 2026

Florida lab VP convicted of billing Medicare over $15m in COVID-19 testing fraud

A federal jury has convicted the vice president of a Florida testing laboratory over a pandemic-era scheme that attached unnecessary blood tests to COVID-19 testing events at residence country clubs. The case shows how DOJ's new Fraud Division and the Health Care Fraud Strike Force are pursuing providers who exploited pandemic testing demand, and sets out the billing figures and charges the jury returned.

  • Jury convicted Joseph Rodriguez of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and six substantive counts of health care fraud.
  • Testing events at nine clubs over about four months involved almost 2,000 patients; Medicare billed over $15 million and paid over $500,000.
  • Rodriguez faces a maximum of 10 years per count, with sentencing scheduled for a later date in January 2027.
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