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Republicans Threaten FinCEN’s Budget over Corporate Transparency Rule | Certain Risk U.S. House Republicans are threatening to block all funding for the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) until the agency finalizes a rule requiring companies to repo…

#Trump #TrumpAdministration #FinCEN #USTreasury #TreasuryDept #FinancialCrime #illicitfinance #FinancialActionTaskForce

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Congo to Restrict USD Transactions in Bid to Leave FATF Gray List | Certain Risk The Democratic Republic of Congo will begin restricting cash transactions in U.S. dollars from next April in an effort to curb money laundering, strengthen oversight of the financial system, and re…

#DemocraticRepublicoftheCongo #Congo #MoneyLaundering #USDollar #FinancialActionTaskForce

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Ex-Swedbank CEO’s 2024 Conviction Overturned by Swedish Supreme Court | Certain Risk Sweden’s Supreme Court has acquitted former Swedbank chief executive Birgitte Bonnesen, overturning the only prison conviction handed to a senior Nordic banker in connection with one of Europe’s bi…

#swedbank #sweden #AML #MoneyLaundering #danskebank #finance #Corruption

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Suspicious Trades Have Become a Hallmark of Trump’s Second Term | Certain Risk Unusual bursts of trading across oil, equities, and prediction markets repeatedly appeared shortly before some of President Donald Trump’s most market-moving public statements.

#Trump #TrumpAdministration #InsiderTrading #trading #PredictionMarkets #Polymarket #kalshi

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Cambodia’s Scam Economy Now Rivals Its Formal One | Certain Risk Cybercrime syndicates operating in Cambodia have grown so large and politically connected that the industry now rivals the country’s formal economy, with online scam networks accused of corrupting …

#Cambodia #cybercrime #scams #fraud #Corruption #trafficking

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ENRC Wants $168mn for Mishandled SFO Probe That Spanned a Decade | Certain Risk Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation is seeking more than $168 million in compensation from the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), law firm Dechert, and former Dechert partner Neil Gerrard over losse…

#fraud #SeriousFraudOffice #SFO #enrc #neilgerrard #dechert #mining

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U.S. Extends Lapsed Sanctions Waiver on Russian Oil Sales | Certain Risk The Trump administration has extended for about a month a sanctions exemption covering some Russian oil already at sea, reversing course just two days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said th…

#Trump #TrumpAdministration #russia #Sanctions #ScottBessent #StraitOfHormuz #IRGC

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A Decade on, Nordic Banks Emerge from Russian Money-Laundering Scandal | Certain Risk Nordic banks are finally beginning to move past the Baltic money-laundering scandal that engulfed the region’s financial sector, after nearly a decade of probes, fines, management upheaval, and cos…

#Banking #russia #MoneyLaundering #danskebank #EuropeanUnion #swedbank #illicitfinance #oversight #BillBrowder #birgittebonnesen #sweden #denmark

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EU to Impose Sanctions on Entities Blocking the Strait of Hormuz | Certain Risk The European Union will widen the criteria for its Iran sanctions regime to include people and entities responsible for obstructing freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.

#EuropeanUnion #Sanctions #iran #StraitOfHormuz #energy #petroleum #oil #Isreal

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Five Bank Giants Tied to Alleged Iran Sanctions-Evasion Scheme | Certain Risk Five of the world’s largest banks have been drawn into allegations that they unwittingly processed payments tied to a sanctions-evasion and money-laundering scheme benefiting Iran.

#banking #Sanctions #SanctionsEvasion #iran #BNYMellon #JPMorganChase #HSBC #StandardChartered #SDNY #nationaliranianoilcompany

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Daniel Kinahan, One of Europe’s Most Wanted Criminals, Arrested in Dubai | Certain Risk Daniel Kinahan, the Irishman long alleged to be one of Europe’s leading organized-crime figures and drug traffickers, has been arrested in Dubai on an Irish warrant and is expected to be extradited…

#europe #EuropeanUnion #OrganizedCrime #dubai #DanielKinahan #kinahanorganisedcrimegroup

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OFAC Targets Militias in Iraq, Mercenary Recruiters in Sudan | Certain Risk The U.S. Treasury on Friday imposed sanctions on seven Iraqi militia commanders in what it called “Economic Fury,” targeting figures it said were responsible for planning, directing and carrying ou…

#USTreasury #OFAC #Sudan #iraq #Sanctions #ScottBessent #humanrights

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A Powerful Opioid Made in India is Flooding into West Africa Illegally | Certain Risk Indian companies shipped more than 320 million tapentadol pills to West Africa over the past three years, even though the synthetic opioid has not been approved by regulators in most countries in t…

#India #opiods #Drugtrafficking #tepentadol #sierraleonean #ghana #narcotics

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Drug Cartels are Changing Tactics and Routes in Response to U.S. Crackdown | Certain Risk South American governments are deploying soldiers, drones, sniffer dogs, artificial intelligence, and expanded port surveillance to try to stem a record flow of cocaine, but the crackdown is having…

#Cartels #Illegaldrugs #Drugtrafficking #emergingthreats #TrumpAdministration #Crime #enforcement

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IMF Calls for Stronger Interbank Data-Sharing to Combat Rising Digital Fraud | Certain Risk The International Monetary Fund has urged banks to share more threat and transaction data with one another, arguing in a recent working paper that the sector’s response to fast-rising digital fraud…

#IMF #cybercrime #Banking #Finance #DigitalFraud #FinCEN #FinancialCrime

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Wife of Spanish PM to Stand Trial for Alleged Corruption, Embezzlement | Certain Risk Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is facing renewed political pressure after a judge ordered his wife, Begoña Gómez, to stand trial, deepening a corruption controversy that already involves seve…

#spain #EuropeanUnion #Corruption #Embezzlement #PedroSánchez #government

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Deutsche Bank Self-Reports Possible Russia Sanctions Violations | Certain Risk Deutsche Bank has alerted financial regulators of potential breaches of EU sanctions rules involving Russian clients after discovering that its retail unit had accepted deposits of more than €100,0…

#DeutscheBank #Sanctions #russia #PoliticalNews #finance #banking

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For Insurers, Phony Claims Now Come with AI-Altered Photos | Certain Risk Fraud appears to be worsening in the UK’s insurance sector, driven in large part by the submission of phony claims backed by AI-altered images.

#AI #InsuranceFraud #insurance #cybercrime #deepfakes #technology #finance #emergingthreats

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Why Anthropic Came to View Its Latest AI Model as a National Security Risk | Certain Risk Anthropic withheld its new artificial intelligence model, Mythos, from a broad public release after internal testing showed it could autonomously find and exploit serious software flaws, alarming c…

#AI #Anthropic #cybercrime #NationalSecurity

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Congolese Rapper Gims Linked to International Money-Laundering Ring | Certain Risk New details about the allegations against the rapper Gims have emerged after French authorities charged the Congolese music star with money laundering linked to millions of euros in suspicious tran…

#Congo #OrganizedCrime #france #Gims #Antifraude #MoneyLaundering

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OFAC Blacklists Nicaraguan Officials and Gold-Sector Companies | Certain Risk The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday imposed sanctions on Nicaraguan government officials, firms operating in Nicaragua’s gold sector, and individuals tied to the forcible seizure of a U.S.-own…

#OFAC #Nicaragua #USTreasury #Sanctions #gold #MoneyLaundering #Corruption

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Handelsbanken Dinged for ‘Serious’ AML Deficiencies | Certain Risk Norway’s financial watchdog has found “serious deficiencies” in anti-money-laundering compliance at Svenska Handelsbanken AB’s Norwegian branch.

#Handlesbanken #antimoneylaundering #AML #oversight #finance #MoneyLaundering

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NCA Charges British Shipping Financier over Alleged Sanctions Violations | Certain Risk Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has charged shipping financier John Michael Ormerod with alleged money laundering and breaches of Russia sanctions.

#NationalCrimeAgency #unitedkingdom #greatbritain #Sanctions #shipping #russia #Lukoil #lawenforcement #oil #energy

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AMLA Seeks Feedback on Risk Assessments and Cross-Border Compliance | Certain Risk The European Union’s new anti-money-laundering (AML) supervisor on Thursday launched two consultations on draft rules intended to tighten how companies assess their financial-crime risks and apply …

#AML #antimoneylaundering #EuropeanUnion #banking #Finance #Compliance #riskassessment

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Trump Administration Levies ‘Economic Fury’ Sanctions on Iran | Certain Risk The U.S. Treasury imposed a fresh round of Iran-related sanctions on Wednesday, targeting what it described as the illicit oil-shipping empire of Iranian magnate Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani and a He…

#Trump #TrumpAdministration #sanctions #iran #energy #OFAC #orielgroup #IRGC #corplinx #helmatic

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Telegram Hosts a Sanctioned Marketplace Tied to Child Sex Trafficking, Forced Labor | Certain Risk Telegram is still hosting Xinbi Guarantee, a Chinese-language black market that British officials have levied sanctions on and accused of facilitating crypto scams and human trafficking.

#telegram #sextrafficking #crypto #Sanctions #blockchain #cybercrime

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Defendant’s Chatbot Conversation Can Be Used in Fraud Case, Court Rules | Certain Risk U.S. lawyers are increasingly warning clients not to treat artificial-intelligence chatbots as confidential sounding boards after a federal judge in New York ruled that a former financial-services …

#fraud #chatbots #ai #artificialintelligence #oversight

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SantaCon Organizer Faces Fraud Charges over Theft Allegations | Certain Risk The organizer of New York City’s annual SantaCon bar crawl was arrested on wire-fraud charges on Wednesday after federal prosecutors alleged he diverted money that was supposed to go to charity and…

#theft #santaconnyc #santacon #nonprofit #charity #WireFraud

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FCA Launches Consultation on Crypto Oversight under FSMA | Certain Risk Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority has launched a consultation on guidance for the UK’s future crypto regime, as the regulator moves toward opening authorizations for crypto firms later this yea…

#crypto #cryptocurrency #FCA #financialconductauthority #unitedkingdom #MoneyLaundering

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Bessent Says E.O. on Banks Collecting Citizenship Proof Is ‘in Process’ | Certain Risk Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said an executive order that would require banks to collect proof of citizenship from customers is “in process,” Bloomberg reported, describing a potentially sweepi…

#USTreasury #ScottBessent #ExecutiveOrder #banking #oversight #lenders

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