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Ghana Losing Millions Of Dollars As Chinese Fishing Trawlers Hide Ownership

Read here: https://ejfoundation.org/news-media/ghana-losing-millions-of-dollars-in-revenue-as-chinese-fishing-trawlers-hide

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COVID-19 Best Practises for Financial Intelligence Units: Public Summary

Read here: https://egmontgroup.org/sites/default/files/Best%20Practices%20Guide%20%28Final%29%20Public%20-%202020-03-18.pdf

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Venezuela Sends Mixed Messages to Colombian Insurgents

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/venezuelan-government-sends-contradictory-messages-colombian-guerrillas/

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After oil giant Shell hit by Clop ransomware gang, workers’ visas dumped online as part of extortion attempt

Read here: https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/29/shell_clop_ransomware_leaks_update/

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UN monitors backtrack on Yemen money-laundering accusations

Read here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/29/un-monitors-backtrack-on-yemen-money-laundering-accusations

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Vatican official ‘offered call girl as thank you for £300m Chelsea property deal’

Read here:https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/vatican-official-offered-call-girl-as-thank-you-for-300m-chelsea-property-deal-vlr50jnjc

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Champion racehorse owner Damion Flower pleads guilty to drug importation

Read here: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/champion-racehorse-owner-damion-flower-pleads-guilty-to-drug-importation-20210329-p57eva.html

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Special Report: Money trail from Daphne murder probe stretches to China

Read here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malta-daphne-china-specialreport-idUSKBN2BL1WF

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Crypto-crime & caveats

Read here: https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/government/crypto-crime-caveats/

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Mafia fugitive caught after posting YouTube cooking video

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/29/mafia-marc-feren-claude-biart-caught-youtube-cooking-video

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SARs IN ACTION: March 2021

Read here: https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications/504-sars-in-action-march-2021/file

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World Bank blacklists anonymous UK firm acting ‘fraudulently’ in Uzbekistan

Read here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/world-bank-blacklists-anonymous-uk-firm-uzbekistan/

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Fraudsters are laundering millions in Covid relief funds through online investment platforms

Read here: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/29/fraudsters-launder-millions-through-online-investment-platforms-like-robinhood.html

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Action against laundering of drug profits in Germany and Luxembourg at French request

Read here: https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/action-against-laundering-drug-profits-germany-and-luxembourg-french-request

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9 Million Fake Sedative Pills Removed From Circulation By Hungarian And Norwegian Police

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/9-million-fake-sedative-pills-removed-circulation-hungarian-and-norwegian-police

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Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory and Evidence

Read here: https://www.nber.org/papers/w28542

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Former Honduran National Police Officer Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison For Conspiring To Import Cocaine Into The United States

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-honduran-national-police-officer-sentenced-12-years-prison-conspiring-import

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Police in Brazil Net Mass Seizure of Ornamental Fish

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/police-brazil-net-mass-seizure-ornamental-fish/

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Agencies Seek Wide Range of Views on Financial Institutions’ Use of Artificial Intelligence

Read here: https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2021/nr-ia-2021-39.html

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Swiss banker to Venezuelan kleptocrats becomes star witness

Read here: https://apnews.com/article/matthias-krull-swiss-banker-venezuela-money-laundering-25162da3fa76e8a0adf2f72e393ffa76

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Galápagos tortoises: 185 babies seized from smugglers

Read here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-56564326

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Hout Bay and the illegal lobster trade: a case study in recovering illicit proceeds of IUU fishing and wildlife trafficking

Read here: https://baselgovernance.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/210329%20Hout%20Bay%20case%20study_0.pdf

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FCA under pressure to explain green light for sub-prime lender’s rescue plan

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/28/fca-under-pressure-to-explain-green-light-for-sub-prime-lenders-rescue-plan

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Feds spotlight Miami as capital of COVID-19 fraud, from business to employee benefits

Read here: https://www.miamiherald.com/article250235410.html

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Beware Of Scam Using The Name Of Europol’s Executive Director

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/beware-of-scam-using-name-of-europol’s-executive-director

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Revealed: police barred from searching Queen’s estates for looted artefacts

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/25/revealed-police-barred-from-searching-queens-estates-for-looted-artefacts

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Social Media Is an Intel Gold Mine. Why Aren’t Governments Using It?

Read here: https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/03/26/social-media-is-an-intel-gold-mine-why-arent-governments-using-it/

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China’s New Silk Road: A superhighway for illegal trade?

Read here: https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/bri-crime/

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FinCEN: Innovation Hours Program – Emerging Themes and Future Role in AML Act Implementation

Read here: https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/FinCEN%20IH%20Prgm%20Public%20Report%20508C.pdf

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Software Hasn’t Eaten Wall Street Yet. But Ethereum And DeFi Might Be About To

Read here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2021/03/11/software-hasnt-eaten-wall-street-yet-but-ethereum-and-defi-might-be-about-to/

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High court to rule on legality of Covid contracts for PM’s ‘chums’

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/mar/28/high-court-to-rule-on-legality-of-covid-contracts-for-pms-chums

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UK: Open finance – Feedback Statement

Read here: https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/feedback/fs21-7.pdf

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Gift Card Payment Scams: BBB reveals why scammers love gift cards

Read here: https://www.bbb.org/globalassets/local-bbbs/council-113/media/scam-studies/giftcardscamstudy.pdf

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J5 countries host ‘Challenge’ aimed at FINtech companies

Read here: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/j5-countries-host-challenge-aimed-at-fintech-companies

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Money Laundering Might Taint NFTs Too, Prepare For Tighter Controls

Read here: https://cryptonews.com/exclusives/money-laundering-might-taint-nfts-too-prepare-for-tighter-co-9689.htm

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Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation

Read here: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/26/1021318/google-security-shut-down-counter-terrorist-us-ally/

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Iran and China sign 25-year cooperation agreement

Read here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/27/iran-and-china-sign-25-year-cooperation-agreement-in-tehran

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Thailand Faces Meth Trafficking Surge After Myanmar Coup

Read here: https://www.ibtimes.com/thailand-faces-meth-trafficking-surge-after-myanmar-coup-3169494

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Malta heading towards ‘all-clear’ from Moneyval

Read here: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/malta-heading-towards-all-clear-from-moneyval.860863

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