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Panama has enacted a 15 percent tax on corporations without domestic activities, targeting shell companies used by wealthy foreigners to shield profits earned abroad, as the country seeks to shed its tax-haven reputation and exit a European Union blacklist.

Digital money transfer giant Wise is under criminal investigation by Belgian prosecutors over concerns that its accounts were used by international criminal organizations to launder proceeds of fraud, corruption, and drug trafficking.

Morgan Stanley and several European banks risk being drawn into a French criminal investigation over the 2022 sale of Vincent Bolloré’s African transport and logistics business, as an anti-corruption association seeks to compel them to hand over internal documents related to the €5.7-billion transaction.

An employee of Banco Santander’s Chile unit was among 18 suspects detained Tuesday as Chilean authorities moved against an alleged $85-million money-laundering network tied to the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua.

Swiss prosecutors raided the Geneva offices of commodity trader Gunvor as part of a criminal investigation into suspected bribery of foreign public officials, dealing a fresh blow to the company’s efforts to rehabilitate its reputation following a series of prior corruption convictions.

The U.S. Department of Justice has reached a temporary staffing compromise that will return about 40 white-collar prosecutors, including those focused on insider trading, to the Criminal Division’s fraud section, reversing an April transfer to the Trump administration’s new fraud division.

Hungarian prosecutors and police have seized around 92 billion forints ($300 million) in funds and securities in a money laundering probe of foundations set up by the National Bank of Hungary.

China has launched the biggest overhaul of its cross-border tax and capital-controls regime in decades, threatening three popular offshore brokers with at least $330 million in penalties, vowing stricter bank oversight, and ramping up private pressure on the country’s wealthiest citizens.

Italian authorities are seizing more than €200 million ($232 million) in assets tied to late Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, including funds derived from drug trafficking and laundered across Europe and beyond.

A senior White House adviser personally directed the Pentagon to extend a $620 million loan to Vulcan Elements, a North Carolina rare-earth magnet startup partly owned by a venture firm tied to Donald Trump Jr.