{
  "id": 18362885,
  "title": "Money laundering complaints target JBS, Barclays over profits linked to illegal deforestation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/money-laundering-complaints-target-jbs-barclays-over-profits-linked",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-05T19:50:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mongabay",
    "slug": "mongabay",
    "url": "https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/11/money-laundering-complaints-target-jbs-barclays-over-profits-linked-to-illegal-deforestation/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The Transnational Legal Coalition has filed money laundering complaints against JBS, the world's largest meat processor, and 12 financial institutions, investors, and advisers, including Barclays. The complaints allege that profits from cattle raised on illegally cleared land in the Brazilian Amazon constitute \"proceeds of crime\" under anti-money laundering laws, potentially exposing JBS and the institutions handling its money to legal liability. The coalition, which includes Global Legal Action Network, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Mighty Earth, FIND, and King's College London, draws its claims from a report by AidEnvironment linking JBS suppliers to over 6.5 million hectares of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon between 1988 and 2026. Barclays, JBS's largest financier, earned $1.7 billion from its dealings with the company between 2018 and 2023, according to a 2024 investigation by Global Witness.",
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}