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Las Vegas Sands target of U.S. money-laundering probe, WSJ says
CHICAGO | Sat Aug 4, 2012 1:28pm EDT
(Reuters) - Las Vegas Sands Corp, controlled by billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, is the target of a federal investigation into possible violations of U.S. money-laundering laws, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
The Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office is looking into the casino company's handling of the receipt of millions of dollars from a Mexican businessman, later indicted in the United States for drug trafficking, and a former California businessman, later convicted of taking illegal kickbacks, the Journal said, citing lawyers and others involved in the matter.
The transactions date from the mid-2000s.
The Journal said there are no indications that actions by Adelson, who is the company's chief executive officer and largest shareholder, are being investigated.
The Los Angeles U.S. attorney could not be reached for comment by Reuters on Saturday. A Sands spokesman was not immediately available to comment to Reuters, but spokesman Ron Reese told the Journal, "The company believes it has acted properly and has not committed any wrongdoing."
Reese said the company was cooperating with federal investigators.
The timing of the investigation could open the Justice Department to criticism that it is politically motivated, the Journal said. Adelson is a major donor to the super PAC supporting presumed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney against President Barack Obama and plans to spend $100 million on Republican candidates in November's elections.
Adelson, who owns casinos in Las Vegas, Macau and Singapore, began this campaign season as a major donor to Newt Gingrich before Gingrich dropped out of the Republican presidential race. He has since switched his support to Romney and last month was in Jerusalem with the candidate when Romney met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who Adelson also strongly supports.
The Journal said the Las Vegas money-laundering investigation focused on two "whales" - as big-money gamblers are known - and whether Sands officials ignored warning signs and did not alert federal authorities about millions of dollars the gamblers had deposited.
The Journal identified one of the "whales" as Zhenli Ye Gon, a Chinese-born Mexican national who was indicted in 2007 in the United States on charges of dealing in materials used to make methamphetamine.
The drug case was dismissed in 2009 but Ye Gon is still in U.S. custody awaiting extradition to Mexico, where authorities want to try him on drug trafficking and money laundering charges, the Journal said, citing court records.
The Journal said Ausaf Umar Siddiqui, a former executive with the Fry's Electronics retail chain, also was under scrutiny. Court filings in another case showed Siddiqui sent more than $100 million to the Sands. Siddiqui was charged with taking kickbacks from Fry's vendors, pleaded guilty and is now in prison.
U.S. authorities also are investigating the Sands to see if there were breaches of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which prohibits bribes to foreign officials by U.S. companies, in its Macau operation.
(Reporting by Ann Saphir; Editing by Bill Trott)
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英銀がイランと違法取引=米NY州、免許取り消しも
【ニューヨーク時事】米ニューヨーク州金融サービス局は6日、英スタンダード・アンド・チャータード銀行が、米国が経済制裁を行っているイランの金融機関と約10年間にわたって取引を繰り返し、その取引を隠していたと発表した。こうした違法取引の規模は少なくとも2500億ドル(約19兆5500億円)に上るという。NY州は同行に不正についての説明を求めており、同州での営業免許を取り消す可能性もある。
ロムニー氏、3カ月連続リード 資金集め好調
【ワシントン共同】米大統領選の共和党候補となるロムニー前マサチューセッツ州知事と同党全国委員会が、7月に1億100万ドル(約79億円)の政治献金を集め、オバマ大統領と民主党全国委員会を3カ月連続で上回った。両陣営が6日、同月の集計を発表した。
オバマ陣営の合計は7500万ドル(約59億円)で、差は2600万ドル。ロムニー陣営の献金額は6月に続く1億ドル突破となり、陣営幹部は「本選勝利へ資金集めは順調」と強調した。
ロイター通信は、オバマ氏はこれまでの献金総額で依然リードしているものの「優位性を急速に失いつつある」と分析した。
Las Vegas Sands fires back over bribery reports
March 3, 2013, 11:38 p.m. EST
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/las-vegas-sands-fires-back-over-bribery-reports-2013-03-03?link=MW_latest_news
世界14位の富豪「カジノ・リゾート誘致で韓国と日本が競争する立場」
2013年02月20日10時44分
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