Suspecting illicit assets, British police freeze record $121M
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Jaclyn Jaeger2019-08-15T14:33:00
The U.K.’s National Crime Agency announced it has frozen eight bank accounts containing more than £100m (U.S. $121 million), which it suspects derived from bribery and corruption overseas. This represents the largest amount of money frozen to date.
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