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Who was sanctioned, and for what?
Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Middle East: 1,929 cases from 40 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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Where?
by authority- Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) €697,653 100 % · 1 case
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Wechselstube (anonymisiert) €48.4m 81 % · 1 case
- AC Holding Limited (Cayman Islands, Hayvn-Muttergesellschaft) €3.24m 5 % · 1 case
- AC Limited (Hayvn) €2.7m 5 % · 1 case
- Sundus Exchange €2.35m 4 % · 1 case
- Wechselstube (anonymisiert, Sanktion vom 19.02.2025) €913,388 2 % · 1 case
- Bank (anonymisiert) €697,653 1 % · 1 case
- Aarna Capital Limited €479,179 1 % · 1 case
- Ark Capital Management (Dubai) Limited €425,676 1 % · 1 case
- Ed Broking (MENA) Limited €384,439 1 % · 1 case
- Finanzierungsgesellschaft (anonymisiert) €140,793 0 % · 1 case
- 9 more€30,711
When?
per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Q4 2023 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2025 | 1 | €697,653 |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2026 | 0 | – |
1 case
10 Jul 2025 Bank (anonymisiert)CBUAE: AED 3m on a bank for breaching AML requirements €697,653
Central Bank examinations found that an unnamed bank had not complied with the CBUAE's instructions implementing the anti-money laundering law. The CBUAE imposed a financial sanction of AED 3,000,000.
Supervisory instructions on AML are binding – examinations uncover implementation gaps and lead to financial sanctions.
Implementing supervisory AML instructions in banks
- Authority / court
- Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE)
- Area of law
- Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
- Legal basis
- Art. 14 Federal Decree Law No. (20) of 2018 on AML/CFT; Art. 137 Decretal Federal Law No. (14) of 2018 regarding the Central Bank
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Published
- 10 Jul 2025
Original amount 3,000,000 AED, converted at the ECB reference rate of 10 Jul 2025.
- CBUAE: CBUAE imposes a financial sanction of AED 3 million on a bank (Pressemitteilung, PDF, 10.07.2025) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link