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FCA provides updates on reducing and preventing financial crime and looks ahead to identify 4 areas of focus in the coming year

Read here: https://www.fca.org.uk/publications/corporate-documents/reducing-and-preventing-financial-crime

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Regulators failing to hold senior executives to account for economic crime, new analysis reveals

Read here: https://www.spotlightcorruption.org/hold-senior-executives-to-account/ Link to report: https://www.spotlightcorruption.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Spotlight-Power-Without-Responsibility-full.pdf

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How Illegal Betting and Related Money Laundering Flourished Despite ‘Crypto Winter’

Read here: https://www.asianracing.org/email/202401qb-how-illegal-betting-and-related-money-laundering-flourished-despite-crypto-winter

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Company worker in Hong Kong pays out £20m in deepfake video call scam

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/05/hong-kong-company-deepfake-video-conference-call-scam

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Brokers: Lynchpins of the Precursor Chemical Flow to Mexico

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/investigations/brokers-lynchpins-precursor-chemical-flow-mexico/

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Lawyers raise alarm at struggle to tackle UK local government corruption

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/02/lawyers-raise-alarm-at-struggle-to-tackle-uk-local-government-corruption

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Men jailed for laundering more than £12m of criminal cash

Read here: https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/men-jailed-laundering-more-ps12m-criminal-cash

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Lithuania: EPPO requests arrest of former BaltCap partner suspected of misappropriating €27 million

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/news/lithuania-eppo-requests-arrest-former-baltcap-partner-suspected-misappropriating-eu27-million

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Illegal Copper Mine Shutdown in Brazil

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/18433-illegal-copper-mine-shutdown-in-brazil

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US Expands on Myanmar Business Advisory

Read here: https://thesentry.org/2024/01/29/80505/us-expands-on-myanmar-business-advisory/

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‘Total Control’: Azerbaijan’s Jails Fill With Journalists and Dissidents as Election Approaches

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/total-control-azerbaijans-jails-fill-with-journalists-and-dissidents-as-election-approaches

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Illicit financial flows in the Western Balkans: The drivers of illicit financial flows and efforts to disrupt them in the region

Read here: https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/illicit-financial-flows-western-balkans/

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Foreign National Charged for International Money Laundering Conspiracy and Role in Operation of Unlicensed Digital Currency Exchange BTC-e

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/foreign-national-charged-international-money-laundering-conspiracy-and-role-operation

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Council of EU Tightens Draft Law Banning Products Made With Forced Labor

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/18426-council-of-europe-tightens-draft-law-banning-products-made-with-forced-labor

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British Bank Facilitated Trades For Sanctioned Iranian Companies

Read here: https://www.iranintl.com/en/202402101096

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Officers responding to gas leak recover thousands of pounds worth of illicit vapes

Read here: https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2024/january/officers-responding-to-gas-leak-recover-thousands-of-pounds-worth-of-illicit-vapes/

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Over a Hundred Poisonous Frogs Seized at Colombian Airport

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/18427-over-a-hundred-poisonous-frogs-seized-at-colombian-airport

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Russian billionaire loses art fraud suit against Sotheby’s

Read here: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/russian-billionaire-loses-art-fraud-suit-against-sotheby-s/49173860

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‘Operation Polanco’: How the DEA Investigated AMLO’s 2006-Presidential Campaign

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/operation-polanco-how-dea-investigated-amlos-2006-presidential-campaign/

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Russian Banks May Be Engaging in Cash-For-Gold Scheme to Obtain Foreign Currency

Read here: https://sayari.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Sayari_Russian_Gold_Trading_Report.pdf

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SARs IN ACTION: January 2024

Read here: https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications/698-sars-in-action-issue-24-january-2024/file

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Head Of Saudi Arabia’s AlUla Cultural Development Arrested on Suspicion of Money Laundering

Read here: https://www.artforum.com/news/head-of-saudi-arabia-alula-cultural-development-arrested-on-suspicion-of-money-laundering-548760/

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Anti-Money Laundering Specialist Pleads Guilty to Willful Failure to Implement Anti-Money Laundering Controls

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/anti-money-laundering-specialist-pleads-guilty-willful-failure-implement-anti-money Other DOJ press release here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-pleads-guilty-bank-secrecy-act-charges-1b-scheme FinCEN press release here: https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-assesses-100000-civil-money-penalty-against-gyanendra-kumar-asre FinCEN Consent Order here: https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/enforcement_action/2024-01-31/FinCEN_Consent_Order_2024-01_FINAL508.pdf  

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Putin ally Dmitry Ovsyannikov arrested in London on charge of breaching Russian sanctions

Read here: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/russia-dmitry-ovsyannikov-arrest-london-national-crime-agency-b1136339.html

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Extradited Autonomy founder Mike Lynch sues SFO over data request

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/31/extradited-autonomy-founder-mike-lynch-sues-sfo-over-alleged-data-breaches

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Europol supports EMPACT action week at 61 airports across 36 countries worldwide

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/europol-supports-empact-action-week-61-airports-across-36-countries-worldwide

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Pakistan’s ex-PM Imran Khan Sentenced to 14 Years for Selling State Gifts

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/18424-pakistan-s-ex-pm-imran-khan-sentenced-to-14-years-for-selling-state-gifts

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Whistleblower accuses medical tech giant Medtronic of putting ‘profit before patients’

Read here: https://www.icij.org/investigations/implant-files/whistleblower-accuses-medical-tech-giant-medtronic-of-putting-profit-before-patients/

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Ukraine Uncovers Embezzlement Ring Involving Defense Ministry Officials

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/18417-ukraine-uncovers-embezzlement-ring-involving-defense-ministry-officials

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How Chinese mafia run a scam factory in Myanmar

Read here: https://www.dw.com/en/how-chinese-mafia-run-a-scam-factory-in-myanmar/a-68113480

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Germany Indicts Two Ex-MPs for Bribery

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/18414-germany-indicts-two-ex-mps-for-bribery

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Husband and wife convicted of exporting £57 million cocaine haul to Australia

Read here: https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/husband-and-wife-convicted-of-exporting-57-million-cocaine-haul-to-australia

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Germany records a sharp rise in counterfeit bills

Read here: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-records-a-sharp-rise-in-counterfeit-bills/a-68112589

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Lloyds and Santander accused of providing accounts for Iranian front companies

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/05/lloyds-and-santander-accused-of-providing-accounts-for-iranian-front-companies

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UK: Restraint Order Granted in PPE Medpro Investigation

Read here: https://essexcourt.com/restraint-order-granted-in-ppe-medpro-investigation/

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Islamic State Weapons in High-Profile Operations in North-East Syria

Read here: https://www.conflictarm.com/reports/after-the-caliphate-islamic-state-weapons-in-high-profile-operations-in-north-east-syria/

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INTERPOL-led operation targets growing cyber threats

Read here: https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2024/INTERPOL-led-operation-targets-growing-cyber-threats

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Europol and Frontex forge closer cooperation

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/europol-and-frontex-forge-closer-cooperation

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eBay to Pay $59 Million to Settle Controlled Substances Act Allegations Related to Pill Presses Sold Through its Website

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ebay-pay-59-million-settle-controlled-substances-act-allegations-related-pill-presses-sold

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FinCEN Issues Alert on Israeli Extremist Settler Violence Against Palestinians in the West Bank

Read here: https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-issues-alert-israeli-extremist-settler-violence-against-palestinians-west Link to Alert: https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/FinCEN_Alert_Extremist_Violence_FINAL_2.1.24.pdf

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