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UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) secures Confiscation Order against convicted money launderer

Read here: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/fca-secures-confiscation-order-against-convicted-money-launderer

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French-Polish Arms Dealing Fraudster Arrested Again in Spain

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/17887-french-polish-arms-dealing-fraudster-arrested-again-in-spain

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Iran-Backed Militia Threaten US Forces After Sanctions On Iraqi Banks

Read here: https://www.iranintl.com/en/202307288888

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Human trafficking and migrant smuggling: more than 1,000 arrests in joint INTERPOL-AFRIPOL operation

Read here: https://www.interpol.int/News-and-Events/News/2023/Human-trafficking-and-migrant-smuggling-more-than-1-000-arrests-in-joint-INTERPOL-AFRIPOL-operation

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UK-Australia joint statement from the Illicit Financing Co-ordination Dialogue

Read here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/illicit-financing-co-ordination-uk-australia-joint-statement/uk-australia-joint-statement-from-the-illicit-financing-co-ordination-dialogue

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Vietnam jails former officials and diplomats in mass bribery trial

Read here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/28/vietnam-jails-former-officials-and-diplomats-in-mass-bribery-trial

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US seeks to end 2020 Airbus criminal case over bribery, export controls

Read here: https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/us-seeks-end-2020-airbus-151745834.html

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Guns for gold: The Wagner Network exposed. UK House of Commons Committee report

Read here: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmfaff/167/summary.html

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Who is William Majcher? A closer look at the ex-Mountie charged with foreign interference

Read here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/william-majcher-rcmp-foreign-interference-1.6916512

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Protesters, banks demand action after Iraqi dinar plunges post-US sanctions

Read here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/27/protesters-banks-demand-action-after-iraqi-dinar-plunges-post-us-sanctions

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Chinese and Angolan nationals remain in custody for attempted bribery of Namra official

Read here: https://www.namibian.com.na/chinese-and-angolan-nationals-remain-in-custody-for-attempted-bribery-of-namra-official/

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Influential Albanian Politician Led Organized Crime Group in Australia, Intelligence Reports Claim

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/influential-albanian-politician-led-organized-crime-group-in-australia-intelligence-reports-claim

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Money launderer who ran professional services for organised crime groups, wanted by the National Crime Agency

Read here: https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/wanted-money-launderer-who-ran-professional-services-for-organised-crime-groups

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Judge orders TBIJ to prepare defence in Kazakh libel case

Read here: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-07-28/judge-orders-tbij-to-prepare-defence-in-kazakh-libel-case

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Data driven investigation leads to three men admitting drug offences

Read here: https://news.met.police.uk/news/data-driven-investigation-leads-to-three-men-admitting-drug-offences-470172

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More than £36m in UK property seized in Riad Salameh money laundering probe

Read here: https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/lebanon/2023/07/27/riad-salemeh-uk-property-seized/

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Colombian president’s son arrested in money-laundering inquiry

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/29/colombia-president-gustavo-petro-nicolas-petro-arrested

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Lithuania: Seven indicted for fraud involving livestock farming and wellness centre

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/news/lithuania-seven-indicted-fraud-involving-livestock-farming-and-wellness-centre

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Criminal Groups Ally With State Forces for Cattle Theft in Venezuela

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/criminal-groups-state-forces-allied-cattle-theft-venezuela/

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Nicaraguan Government Freezes Catholic Church’s Accounts On Money Laundering Accusations

Read here: https://theowp.org/nicaraguan-government-freezes-catholic-churchs-accounts-on-money-laundering-accusations/

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Germany: Eight indicted in connection with €80 million VAT fraud involving luxury cars

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/news/germany-eight-indicted-connection-eu80-million-vat-fraud-involving-luxury-cars

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Latin America’s Criminal Bankers: Explaining Colombians’ Monopoly on Gota-a-Gota

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/latin-america-criminal-bankers-colombia-gota-a-gota/

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Quebec will ban people convicted of money laundering, forgery from casinos

Read here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-money-laundering-forgery-convictions-casinos-1.6920287

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Canada: A rare beacon of light for the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) Review Mechanism

Read here: https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/canada-first-country-untoc-review-mechanism/

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JMLSG publishes proposed amendments cryptoasset transfers guidance

Read here: https://www.jmlsg.org.uk/latest-news/jmlsg-guidance-consultation-cryptoasset-transfers/

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Life Under U.K. Sanctions: Chauffeurs, Chefs and $1 Million Allowances

Read here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/world/europe/uk-russia-sanctions.html

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World to lose $4.7 trillion to tax havens over next decade unless UN tax convention adopted, countries warned

Read here: https://taxjustice.net/press/world-to-lose-4-7-trillion-to-tax-havens-over-next-decade-unless-un-tax-convention-adopted-countries-warned/

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Actress Isabelle Adjani, who was named in the Panama Papers, to be tried for tax evasion

Read here: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/actress-isabelle-adjani-who-was-named-in-the-panama-papers-to-be-tried-for-tax-evasion/

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Over £55 Million of UK Fraud Prevented in 2022 by rapid response scheme, Banking Protocol

Read here: https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/news-and-insight/press-release/over-ps55-million-fraud-prevented-in-2022-rapid-response-scheme

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Gambling Tycoon’s Partners Abandon Him as Extradition to China Looms

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/17874-gambling-tycoon-s-partners-abandon-him-as-extradition-to-china-looms

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Puerto Rican bank sues NY Fed for suspending account in Venezuela-linked crackdown

Read here: https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/puerto-rican-bank-sues-ny-232514317.html

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Mastercard demands US cannabis shops stop accepting debit cards

Read here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66320970

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Obscure traders ship half Russia’s oil exports to India, China after sanctions

Read here: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/obscure-traders-ship-half-russias-060634835.html

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Shark Fin Trade Thriving in Latin America, Despite Promises of Progress

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/shark-fin-trade-thriving-latin-america-progress/

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Democracies Remain Blind to the Threat from Illicit Finance

Read here: https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/democracies-remain-blind-threat-illicit-finance

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Farage and Coutts: It’s Not McCarthyism – It’s Customer Due Diligence

Read here: https://bylinetimes.com/2023/07/24/farage-and-coutts-its-not-mccarthyism-its-customer-due-diligence/

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Modern slavery gangmasters exploit care worker shortage

Read here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66260064

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Phish, RATs, and Mules – Scams that make up the new fraud menu

Read here: https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/24619/phish-rats-and-mules–scams-that-make-up-the-newfraudmenu

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FCA expects ‘complex enforcement cases’ next year

Read here: https://www.ftadviser.com/fca/2023/07/21/fca-expects-complex-enforcement-cases-next-year/

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