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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) €913,388 100 % · 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 |
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| Q4 2023 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2025 | 1 | €913,388 |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2026 | 0 | – |
1 case
19 Feb 2025 Wechselstube (anonymisiert, Sanktion vom 19.02.2025)CBUAE: AED 3.5m on an exchange house for AML breaches €913,388
Following an examination, the Central Bank found that an unnamed exchange house had not complied with its policies and procedures for combating money laundering and terrorist financing. The CBUAE imposed a financial sanction of AED 3.5 million.
Exchange houses are under close AML supervision – gaps between policy and practice are punished with sums in the millions.
AML prevention in 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 AML/CFT
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Published
- 19 Feb 2025
Original amount 3,500,000 AED, converted at the ECB reference rate of 19 Feb 2025.
- CBUAE: CBUAE Imposes Financial Sanction on an Exchange House Operating in the UAE (Pressemitteilung, PDF, 19.02.2025) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link