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Seychelles: Top Figures Charged as Govt Tries to Clean Up Nation's Reputation
allAfrica, 11 December 2021
One of the Seychelles' wealthiest and most powerful men, his wife and former senior government officials face charges of laundering U.S. $50 million as a new government, elected… Read more »
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Seychelles: Suspect in Seychelles' Missing $50 Million Released On Record Bail Amount
Seychelles News Agency, 10 December 2021
The sixth suspect in the case of the missing $50 million was released on a record $2 million bail with conditions by the Seychelles Supreme Court on Friday. Read more »
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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, 1 December 2021
The African tax haven, recently removed from the EU’s blacklist despite uproar, is prosecuting its first major money laundering case against an influential couple who feature… Read more »
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Seychelles: Sixth Suspect in Case of Missing $50 Million Is Held By Seychelles Supreme Court
Seychelles News Agency, 29 November 2021
A sixth suspect in the case of the missing $50 million in government funds was remanded by the Seychelles Supreme Court on Monday. Read more »
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Seychelles: Two Former Government Officials Appear Before Seychelles' Supreme Court in Missing $50 Million Case
Seychelles News Agency, 24 November 2021
Two former high government officials appeared before the Seychelles' Supreme Court on Wednesday in connection with the ongoing investigation of the disappearance of $50 million. Read more »
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Seychelles: Supreme Court Orders Couple Suspected of Laundering $50 Million Held
Seychelles News Agency, 19 November 2021
The Seychelles Supreme Court has remanded for 14 days a Seychellois couple arrested on suspicion of money laundering $50 million. Read more »
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Seychelles: Money Laundering Case - India's Top Court Dismisses Seychellois' Diplomatic Immunity Claim
Seychelles News Agency, 10 December 2021
The Supreme Court of India on Thursday dismissed a petition for diplomatic immunity raised by the Aircel founder and businessman Chinnakannan Sivasankaran, a naturalised… Read more »
Seychelles Cracks Down on Money Laundering
When the Seychelles opposition took power in 2020. dislodging a government that had been in power for 43 years, the new president, Wavel Ramkawalan, pledged that "nobody is above the law". Now an elite power couple connected to former president Albert Rene and senior government officials are charged in a $50 million money-laundering case.
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The accused have appeared in the Seychelles Supreme Court, housed in the Palais de Justice on the Ile du Port in the capital, Victoria.
