Australia a ‘place of choice’ for money laundering due to lack of regulation: ANZ

ANZ Bank says a lack of political will has seen successive Australian governments fail to extend money laundering laws to cover lawyers, real estate agents and accountants. Australia’s hot property market is an attractive haven for criminals, with estimates that billions of dollars of dirty money is being laundered through residential property. Australia’s anti-money laundering...

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Australia’s Commonwealth Bank Accused of Massive Money-Laundering Breaches

SYDNEY — The Australian government on Thursday accused the country’s biggest mortgage lender, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, of widespread breaches of money-laundering and counter-terrorism financing rules. Financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC said it had initiated civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court against CommBank for “serious and systemic non-compliance,” in the biggest case of its kind...

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Australia Takes Aim at Cryptocurrencies With New Money Laundering Bill

Australia is moving to introduce a new bill that would extend the country’s anti-money laundering (AML) rules to cover domestic cryptocurrency exchanges. In a statement this morning, the Ministry of Justice announced that the legislation would seek to bring exchanges within the jurisdiction of the Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), the country’s chief financial intelligence office.   The effort dates back to...

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Urban Exploration Photographer Finds a Stash of Cash in an Abandoned House

What would you do if you came across a fat stack of cash while doing urban exploration photography? That’s what happened to Dave of Freaktography last year. On one afternoon in January 2014, Dave got off work early and decided to pay a visit to a badly decaying abandoned house that he had heard about from a...

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Victorian Government has $100m in unclaimed cash

DREAMING of a lotto win worth up to $200,000? It might be easier to check if you’ve got money sitting in the State Revenue Office. An incredible 800,000 Victorians have cash windfalls waiting to be collected, including a Mont Albert woman who has almost $200,000 unclaimed. In total, more than $100 million in unclaimed cash...

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Finding Money in Graves.; DELVING AMONG DEAD MEN’S BONES.

From the St. Louis Democrat. For several days past workmen have been engaged in removing the bones from the old city graveyard, and transferring them to their new resting-place. The cemetery is about seventeen acres in extent, and is well filled with graves. The removal of these remains is a laborious task, and will require...

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The Six Financial Mistakes Couples Make

  If you and your partner are like most couples, chances are, you fight about money. Numerous studies have shown that money is the No. 1 reason why couples argue — and many of the recently divorced say those battles were the main reason why they untied the knot. While anyone will tell you that...

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Victorian Government has $100m in unclaimed cash

DREAMING of a lotto win worth up to $200,000?It might be easier to check if you’ve got money sitting in the State Revenue Office. An incredible 800,000 Victorians have cash windfalls waiting to be collected, including a Mont Albert woman who has almost $200,000 unclaimed. In total, more than $100 million in unclaimed cash is...

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8 Things You’re Spending Too Much Money On — And How to Stop

Sometimes financial stability takes a little bit of discipline. It can mean taking a look at all of our spending habits — big and small — and cutting out some non-essentials to be sure we can make it to our major financial goals. There’s a handful of things we all spend too much on, but...

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10 Things You Probably Never Knew About Money

Money — it’s something we all use every day, but rarely think about, except to lament that we don’t have enough of it. The U.S. has been making money since 1792. That first money was in the form of coins. These early coins were made of precious metals and had actual value. It wasn’t until...

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20 Weird Facts About Money Most Of Us Don’t Know

Money: it makes the world go round. The Federal Reserve estimates that there is currently somewhere around $1 trillion in US Currency currently in circulation. We all use it just about every day, we earn it so we can spend it, we save it (some more than others), but how much do we really know...

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Doc Neeson’s lost money recovered in court action from music promoter by son

IT was the $100,000 lawsuit that was never about the money and all about fulfilling a dying father’s final wish. Now the son of Aussie rock legend Doc Neeson can say that he kept his promise to pursue the man who fleeced his dad of tens of thousands of dollars after the Supreme Court this...

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10 Most Incredible Things Found In Attics

10 Most Incredible Things Found In Attics It seems like most people have old Christmas ornaments and boxes upon boxes of nondescript, worthless junk in their attics. Ah, but one man’s junk can be another man’s treasure! Every once in a while, you hear stories about people finding treasures of all kinds in the dust-filled,...

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Cash Hidden in Ohio House Walls Becomes Contractor’s Nightmare

CLEVELAND –  A contractor who found $182,000 in Depression-era currency hidden in a bathroom wall has ended up with only a few thousand dollars, but he feels some vindication. The windfall discovery amounted to little more than grief for contractor Bob Kitts, who couldn’t agree on how to split the money with homeowner Amanda Reece....

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Mystery safe raises questions

For years, the greatest legacy left by Nevada casino owner Richard Chartrand was the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death. Chartrand was backing out of his driveway one day in 1968 when a bomb under his car exploded, killing him. Now another layer has been added to the mystery, and it’s playing out on social news...

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Australian wool producers may soon receive final payment from 80-year industry legacy

After a 16-year wait, roughly 36,000 Australian wool growers who have shares in Graziers’ Investment Company may receive their final payment from previous wool industry schemes within four months. Graziers’ Investment Company (GIC) is the group responsible for winding up 36 legacy issues that stretch back more than 80 years through previous administrations of the...

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More than $49 million in unclaimed superannuation in New England

CHECK IT NOW: Lara Gill said anyone who has worked more than one job in the last 25 years is at risk of having unclaimed super. IF you’ve had more than one job in the last 25 years, there’s a good chance you’re money is part of the $49 million in unclaimed superannuation in the...

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Australian wool producers may soon receive final payment from 80-year industry legacy

After a 16-year wait, roughly 36,000 Australian wool growers who have shares in Graziers’ Investment Company may receive their final payment from previous wool industry schemes within four months. Graziers’ Investment Company (GIC) is the group responsible for winding up 36 legacy issues that stretch back more than 80 years through previous administrations of the...

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ASFA calls again for unclaimed super repatriationunts

  The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) is continuing its lobbying around Australia’s $3.75 billion in unclaimed super, calling again on the Government to make legislative changes to enable the Commissioner of Taxation to distribute it into active super accounts. ASFA chief policy officer, Glen McCrea said ASFA would champion the option to...

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$18 billion in unclaimed superannuation and some could be yours

There is nearly $18 billion sitting in the super system without a home according to new figures and some of it could be yours. The Australian Tax Office has reported that the amount of money held in unclaimed superannuation accounts jumped 21.3 per cent to $17.9 billion in the year to June 2017. Of that...

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Mackay revealed as worst in country over lost super

AUSTRALIANS have a whopping $18 billion retirement savings in lost or unclaimed superannuation that’s waiting to be clawed back by its rightful owners. And Mackay region’s postcode of 4740 is the number one postcode across the nation with the highest amount of super sitting unclaimed at $62million. New figures released today by the Australian Taxation...

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Are you one of Ipswich’s 11,266 account holders owed $3649?

AUSTRALIANS have a whopping $18 billion retirement savings in lost or unclaimed superannuation that’s waiting to be clawed back by its rightful owners. The Toowoomba region’s postcode of 4350 is among one of the worst offenders when it comes to lost super across the nation, with $56 million in super sitting unclaimed. Ipswich wasn’t far...

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Cha-Ching! Money theft in Bowen

One thief has cashed in after theft of cash from an ATM in Herbert Street, Bowen. Police say a Bowen resident has attended to the ATM and withdrawn $500. The victim has collected their bank card from the machine and unintentionally left without removing their cash from the ATM. Very shortly afterwards the victim realized...

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Eight gold coins discovered in Germany mark the site of an ancient Roman massacre, archaeologists say

Eight gold coins were discovered at Kalkriese archaeological site, Germany Researchers say they were likely dropped in battle, or hidden intentionally Coins feature Emperor Augustus on front, and Gauis and Lucius on back Eight gold coins discovered during an archaeological excavation in Germany could confirm the site of the legendary Battle of Teutoburg Forest. Such...

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Final coins removed from £10 million Celtish hoard buried in Jersey field for 2,000 years

The last coins from an ancient Celtic hoard discovered in a field in Jersey have been successfully removed from the dirt they were buried in. Known as Catillon II and dating from around 30-50 BC, the collection of nearly 70,000 coins was six times larger than any other similar Celtic artefacts and also included jewellery, beads and...

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Unclaimed R19 million Powerball winning ticket expires this week

While two other ticketholders of big wins have also not yet come forward‚ the Durban player is about to run of time to claim the cash. The KZN owner of the PowerBall Plus lottery ticket that won the staggering R19 292 600 jackpot in July last year is yet to come forward and has less...

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“Milestone” treasure of ancient Roman coins found at mining site

A treasure of gold and silver ancient Roman coins has been found at a mining site in Huelva, southern Spain. The discovery is of “incalculable value and a milestone in the archeology of this mining area,” according to the archeologists from Atalaya Mining, the company running the mine who found it.  The discovery was reported by...

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The Queensland lottery winners sitting on an unclaimed fortune

They are the Queenslanders sitting on a fortune and they don’t even know it. Golden Casket has launched an appeal to find one of four lotto winners who are sitting on more than $5 million of unclaimed prize money. It has been almost two years since a mystery punter bought a lotto ticket from Nextra...

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Coins from 1622 shipwreck, Chicago World’s Fair souvenirs among forgotten items going to auction

Illinoisans keep a lot of weird stuff in safety deposit boxes. Just ask state treasurer Michael Frerichs. Frerichs — whose lesser-known duties include safekeeping the unclaimed piles of privately owned cash, stocks and safety deposit boxes that are typically lost or forgotten after Illinoisans pass on — has found not only rare baseball cards, collectible...

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Treasure chest with £100MILLION of Nazi gold is found by a British crew in the wreck of a ship

UK-based treasure hunters found a box on board the SS Minden, off of Iceland The box contains up to four tons of valuable metal believed to be gold from WWII The gold was believed to be headed to Germany when the ship sank in 1939 Advanced Marine Services hopes to cut a hole in the...

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Most People Don’t Know These 9 Treasures Are Hiding In Oklahoma

Oklahoma is not well-known for being the land of lost treasures and buried gold, but don’t let that fool you.  The state has had its share of gold rushes and ruthless outlaws stashing treasures in our mountains, caverns and rivers. As one old-timer summed it up aptly: “There’s more treasure buried right here in Oklahoma...

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Money for old money as Italian woman wins right to convert lire hoard into euros

Italian woman wins right to convert lire hoard into euros after court rules that 2011 deadline for exchanging the former currency was unconstitutional By AFP An Italian woman who discovered millions of lire in an old chest of drawers has won the right to convert the hoard into euros after a court ruled that a...

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When These 11 People Passed Away, They Changed Lives In Seriously Unexpected Ways

Did you ever have a fantasy that an uber rich Eastern European baron dies and reveals on his death bed that you, his obscure nephew, are his sole heir? It’s an unlikely future, I know, but most of the people below felt just as hopeless before someone dropped them tons of money in their will....

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California Holding Close To $8 Billion In Unclaimed Property

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The State of California is currently holding a record amount of unclaimed property, with cash making up 90 percent of the nearly $8 billion being held by the State Controller’s office. State Controller Betty Yee says the total includes forgotten bank accounts,  security deposits, refunds and wages. She says the funds...

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Woman discovers $100,000 in unclaimed property

A Bethesda woman is celebrating a recent discovery of more than $100,000 dollars in unclaimed property.When Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot’s office first contacted the woman regarding the bank account, she was in disbelief. The finding tops the list so far this year in terms of unclaimed property worth. Franchot says the state’s database of unclaimed property includes...

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The Government Has $1 Billion in Unclaimed Tax Refunds

Credit: Madeline Farber Mar 02, 2017 If you forgot to file a tax return in 2013, the government may owe you more money than you thought. On Wednesday, the IRS announced that it currently has more than $1 billion in unclaimed tax refunds for about 1 million taxpayers who didn’t file a 2013 federal income tax return. But if you...

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Some New Zealanders owed hundreds of thousands in missing money

Most people could do with a windfall – a bit of extra cash to pay the bills or splurge on a luxury. What if there was a stash of cash somewhere with your name on it, that you didn’t know about? Some New Zealanders have hundreds of thousands of dollars in unclaimed money, just waiting...

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There are 14,334 unclaimed estates in the UK – are you entitled to a fortune?

But be quick –  if the estate isn’t claimed within 12 years it will go to the Treasury. With the season of giving and receiving very much upon us, the government’s latest figures on unclaimed estates in the UK is at 14,334. In other words, one in 4468 of us are entitled to an estate. Are you one of...

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Billions of euros in unclaimed bank accounts prompts call for central database in Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia Finance Minister Norbert Walter-Borjans estimates that about two billion euros ($2.2 billion) are in dormant accounts across Germany. He’s called for a database to unite more assets with heirs. A relative passes away, and it is often the family that is left to deal with the less-than-inviting task of clearing out the house....

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Forget a casino ticket? Here’s what happens to the money

Gamblers left more than $35 million on casino floors in the past five years, money the state of Nevada was happy to come along and pick up. The cash came in the form of slot and video machine tickets that players either lost, forgot about or simply didn’t bother to turn in. With the days...

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Toowoomba residents ‘risking their retirement’

TOOWOOMBA has been named one of Queensland’s hot spots for lost or unclaimed superannuation.The Australian Taxation Office reports that more than $45 million in lost super exists in Toowoomba accounts, in new statistics compiled by Westpac. The staggering figure places the Garden City third on the list for Queensland while Mackay and Cairns have nearly...

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Treasure chest with £100MILLION of Nazi gold is found by a British crew in the wreck of a ship deliberately sunk by Hitler to avoid being captured

A group of British treasure hunters have found a chest that could contain up to £100million in Nazi gold in the wreck of a German cargo ship off the coast of Iceland. UK-based Advanced Marine Services found a box containing up to four tons of valuable metal, believed to be gold from South American banks,...

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Government sitting on $166m of your unclaimed money

The Government is sitting on a pile of $166.2 million from uncashed cheques, dormant bank accounts and other forms of unclaimed money, the Inland Revenue Department says. Banks have placed public notices warning that forms of money exchange like cheques they have stashed away for a rainy day for over six years will be transferred...

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Ottawa sitting on $730-million stockpile of uncashed tax refunds and other government cheques

Ottawa is sitting on a stockpile of more than $730 million in uncashed tax refunds and other government cheques, according to Public Works Canada MONTREAL — Ottawa is sitting on a stockpile of more than $730 million in uncashed tax refunds and other government cheques, according to Public Works Canada. Many Canadians eagerly await their...

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£10bn worth of benefits go unclaimed each year in the UK

As far as uncomfortable stats go, they are right up there. Research carried out for The Independent suggests that three-quarters of people who rely on working age benefits say they feel shame about claiming, either sometimes, most or all the time. Not only that, but two thirds of people in work agree that claimants should...

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More than NZ$55 million in forgotten accounts languishing at Inland Revenue

By Amanda Morrall Who wants to be a millionaire? A more interesting question might be who doesn’t want to be a millionaire? With more than NZ$55 million in unclaimed cash languishing at Inland Revenue, you have to wonder. Given the bountiful booty is drawn from close to 100,000 separate accounts, it’s not likely to make...

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More than $140M belonging to B.C. residents sits unclaimed at Property Society

More than $140 million in unclaimed money belonging to B.C. residents is currently sitting unclaimed at the B.C. Unclaimed Property Society (BCUPS). Every year the society searches for the rightful owner of the unclaimed funds on all accounts greater than $200. Right now, there is approximately $140,255,000 at the society, with approximately $5,585,000 being received...

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