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‘It is written in the SARs’ Webinar

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Mexico president justifies release of kingpin targeted by US

Read here: https://apnews.com/article/courts-mexico-579cba99c39888dc859db73403ced515

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Action to counter Italian fuel tax fraud worth almost EUR 1 billion

Read here: https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/action-counter-italian-fuel-tax-fraud-worth-almost-eur-1-billion

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Criminals Hid Guns, Cash, Drugs in Iris-Scanning Vaults in a Strip Mall, Feds Say

Read here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgwwb/criminals-hid-guns-cash-drugs-in-iris-scanning-vaults-in-a-strip-mall-feds-say

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Westpac agrees path to fix transaction monitoring issues

Read here: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/westpac-agrees-path-to-fix-transaction-monitoring-issues-563066

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NSA About To Release Unclassified 5G Security Guidance

Read here: https://breakingdefense.com/2021/04/nsa-about-to-release-unclassified-5g-security-guidance/

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Italy’s mafias – boosted by Covid, now eyeing EU’s billions

Read here: https://euobserver.com/coronavirus/151460

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After impressive run heading FinCEN, shepherding shift to ‘effective’ AML programs, Blanco taking top fincrime compliance post at Citi

Read here: https://www.acfcs.org/after-impressive-run-heading-fincen-shepherding-shift-to-effective-aml-programs-blanco-taking-top-fincrime-compliance-post-at-citi/

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Fincrime Career Tips and Tricks: To achieve success as a government investigator, never stop learning, listening, looking through eyes of senior agents – and crafty criminals

Read here: https://www.acfcs.org/fincrime-career-tips-and-tricks-to-achieve-success-as-a-government-investigator-never-stop-learning-listening-looking-through-eyes-of-senior-agents-and-crafty-criminals/

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Former Swiss police employee accused of selling weapons via darknet

Read here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-guns-darknet/former-swiss-police-employee-accused-of-selling-weapons-via-darknet-idUSKBN2BV28T

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Commerce Adds Seven Chinese Supercomputing Entities to Entity List for their Support to China’s Military Modernization, and Other Destabilizing Efforts

Read here: https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2021/04/commerce-adds-seven-chinese-supercomputing-entities-entity-list-their

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Transnational Money Launderer Sentenced To 50 Months In Prison

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/transnational-money-launderer-sentenced-50-months-prison

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Supervising cryptoassets for anti-money laundering

Read here: https://www.bis.org/fsi/publ/insights31.htm

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Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man to share CTF information

Read here: https://www.grcworldforums.com/financial-crime/gibraltar-guernsey-jersey-and-isle-of-man-to-share-ctf-information/1260.article

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Western Sydney man charged with importing meth and cocaine

Read here: https://www.afp.gov.au/news-media/media-releases/western-sydney-man-charged-importing-meth-and-cocaine

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Bidder Pleads Guilty to Rigging Bids at Online Auctions for Surplus Government Equipment

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bidder-pleads-guilty-riggings-bids-online-auctions-surplus-government-equipment

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Argentine court orders release of Kirchner family assets implicated in corruption allegations

Read here: https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/mercosur/argentina/money-laundering-enquiry-into-argentine-kirchner-family-reaches-nowhere/

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Court orders extradition of people smuggling suspect wanted in connection with Essex lorry deaths

Read here: https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/court-orders-extradition-of-people-smuggling-suspect-wanted-in-connection-with-essex-lorry-deaths

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Drug smuggler swallowed dozens of lethal cocaine pellets

Read here: https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/drug-smuggler-swallowed-dozens-of-lethal-cocaine-pellets

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Pakistani National Indicted and Sanctioned for Human Smuggling Conspiracy

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/pakistani-national-indicted-and-sanctioned-human-smuggling-conspiracy

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Juan Carlos paid tax bill with rich friends’ gift

Read here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/juan-carlos-paid-tax-bill-with-rich-friends-gift-vwbff6f75

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Dark Web Hitman Identified Through Crypto-Analysis

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/dark-web-hitman-identified-through-crypto-analysis

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‘Operation Chicken Drumstick’: How Chinese police cracked the world’s biggest video game cheat syndicate

Read here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-02/video-game-cheat-uncovered-china-chicken-drumstick-tencent/100043804

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Their ‘next job could be in cyber’: UK Cyber Security Council launches itself by pointing world+dog to domain it doesn’t own

Read here: https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/06/uk_cybersecurity_council_domain_fail_launch/

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Police seize meth with street value of $25 million hidden in truck’s horse feed cargo

Read here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-07/sa-police-seize-meth-hidden-in-horse-feed-on-truck/100054276

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Lockdown Saw Rise in Wine Domains and Wine Scammers

Read here: https://www.recordedfuture.com/lockdown-rise-wine-domain-scammer/

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Treasury Sanctions Violent CJNG Members and Cartel Facilitator

Read here: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0103

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Beverlywood Man Arrested for Allegedly Bilking Investors by Falsely Claiming to License Latin American Film Rights to Netflix and HBO

Read DOJ here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/beverlywood-man-arrested-allegedly-bilking-investors-falsely-claiming-license-latin Read SEC press release here: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-58

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TNO, Rabobank and ABN AMRO work on privacy-friendly data analysis – Project: Multi Party Computation for Anti Money Laundering (MPC4AML)

Read here: https://medium.com/abn-amro-developer/tno-rabobank-and-abn-amro-work-on-privacy-friendly-data-analysis-5976a18a2299

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Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Adds to Venezuela Money Laundering Risk

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-adds-venezuela-money-laundering-risk/

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Council of Europe Requests Ban on Trade in Torture Tools

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/14185-council-of-europe-requests-ban-on-trade-in-torture-tools

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Chechen Leader Ramzan Kadyrov Has a Second Wife – And Her Properties Are Worth Millions

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/chechen-leader-ramzan-kadyrov-has-a-second-wife-and-her-properties-are-worth-millions

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Drug gangs pose as slaves to dodge jail

Read here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/drug-gangs-pose-as-slaves-to-dodge-jail-32l8fs772

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Playboy Is Turning Its Classic Centerfolds Into NFTs

Read here: https://decrypt.co/64121/playboy-nft-nifty-gateway

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Former Gunvor employee pleads guilty in Petroecuador bribery case

Read here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-petroecuador-corruption-plea/former-gunvor-employee-pleads-guilty-in-petroecuador-bribery-case-idUSKBN2BT2DR

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Six remanded over alleged Class A excavator conspiracy

Read here: https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/six-remanded-over-alleged-class-a-excavator-conspiracy

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All at sea: An evaluation of company efforts to address modern slavery in Pacific supply chains of canned tuna

Read here: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/briefings/all-at-sea-an-evaluation-of-company-efforts-to-address-modern-slavery-in-pacific-supply-chains-of-canned-tuna/

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Morgan Stanley dumped $5 billion in Archegos’ stocks the night before massive fire sale hit rivals

Read here: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/06/morgan-stanley-dumped-5-billion-in-archegos-stocks-before-fire-sale.html

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Banking and Cannabis Enforcement Round Up

Read here: https://www.moneylaunderingnews.com/2021/04/banking-and-cannabis-enforcement-round-up-ncua-imposes-first-penalty-relating-to-cannabis-banking-services-cannabis-industry-execs-convicted-of-defrauding-banks-into-providing-financial-servic/

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South Korean Prosecutors Sell (and Profit Off) Bitcoin Taken From Criminals

Read here: https://www.coindesk.com/korea-prosecutors-sell-bitcoin-taken-from-criminals

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