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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) €2.35m 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 | 1 | €2.35m |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2026 | 0 | – |
1 case
17 Jun 2025 Sundus ExchangeCBUAE revokes Sundus Exchange's licence and fines it AED 10m over AML breaches €2.35m
The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) revoked the licence of the exchange house Sundus Exchange, struck it off the register and fined it AED 10 million under Article 14 of the anti-money laundering law (Federal Decree Law No. 20 of 2018). The measures were based on examination findings of failures and breaches of the framework for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism and illegal organisations.
For payment and exchange businesses, anti-money laundering breaches can lead to a fine and loss of licence at the same time.
AML obligations of exchange houses
- 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 Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism and Illegal Organisations
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Published
- 17 Jun 2025
Original amount 10,000,000 AED, converted at the ECB reference rate of 17 Jun 2025.
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link