Using this ruse, organized crime groups have duped thousands into receiving stolen property at their homes and opening shell bank accounts in their own names.

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These would have been GlaxoSmithKline in 2003 and - in 2009 - Royal Dutch Shell and Royal Bank of Scotland.

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Ruybalid said surveillance video from the bank in Valdosta showed Lee Grace Dougherty firing a MAC-10 machine pistol, and shell casings from the bank matched a weapon found with the group after their capture.

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Trincher and Nahmad of laundering money through bank accounts and shell companies in Cyprus, routing funds back and forth through Russia and into the U.S. The unnamed celebrities, athletes and financiers who patronized the alleged underground poker games run by the ring aren't accused of participating in the broader criminal enterprise.

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The quay will be built on the site of a former Shell oil refinery on the South bank of the Tees, which has been lying vacant for around 20 years.

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The banks that will be allowed to bid are those that are small, such as Virgin Money or the shell company NBNK, or foreign, such as National Australia Bank.

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On the far bank stood an old hydroelectric station, or the brick shell of one.

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One guideline asks charities to determine whether the bank of a foreign recipient of a donation is a shell and whether it has anti-money-laundering controls in place.

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