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GRECO 4th Evaluation compliance report on Monaco

GRECO welcomes the introduction of the new National Council Rules of procedure and their accompanying implementing measures, which should strengthen considerably the transparency of the legislative process and the visibility of parliamentarians’ activities…

FATF follow-up report on the Evaluation of China

The report summarises China’s progress to improve its technical compliance by addressing some of the technical compliance deficiencies identified in the MER, and Implementing new requirements where the FATF Recommendations have changed since China’s 1st enhanced…

ESAAMLG Evaluation Report South Africa on 2021

Public sector corruption represents a major weakness in the AML/CFT system, with the key LEAs being the most impacted over the past decade. The RBA and many key preventive requirements were introduced in the legal framework only recently…

FCA Financial Crime: analysis of firms’ 2017-2020 REP-CRIM data

This analysis aims to provide MLRO and industry practitioners insights on trends and developments, which should help inform the arrangements and risks of their respective firms. This publication provides analysis of the REP-CRIM submissions for the 3 reporting periods…

US DoJ sentences foreign national on ML funds to promote turtle trafficking 

Kang Juntao was sentenced today to 38 months in prison and one year of supervised release on a federal ML conviction. He financed a nationwide ring of individuals who smuggled at least 1,500 protected turtles, valued at more than $2,250,000, from US to Hong Kong…

EU plans new rules against tax avoidance

The tax discussion at the plenary session of the EU parliament was added to the agenda after reports this week on a large leak of tax data, known collectively as the “Pandora Papers”, which showed how the rich and powerful continue to systematically use offshore companies…

GRECO 5th Round Compliance Report on Slovenia

GRECO recommended that the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption be provided with adequate financial and personnel resources to effectively perform its tasks with respect to persons entrusted with top executive functions, in particular in the areas of asset declarations…

FATF report on the Mutual Evaluation of Finland

Among it findings, Finland has a good legal structure to combat ML & TF. While provisions are in place to allow restraint, confiscation and recovery of the proceeds of crime in most situations, the mechanism for freezing terrorist assets is incomplete…

ICIJ on the release of the “Pandora Papers”

The leaked records reveal that many of the power players who could help bring an end to the offshore system instead benefit from it – stashing assets in covert companies and trusts while their governments do little to slow a global stream of illicit money…

MAS on the FI-FI information sharing platform for AML/CFT 

MAS proposes to introduce a legislative framework and to develop a secure digital platform for FIs to share information with each other. Such information would include information relating to, or particulars of, a customer5 (e.g. the beneficial owners and authorised…

FATF issues follow up report on Canada

Canada has made progress in addressing most of the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its MER and has been upgraded on seven Recommendations and downgraded in one. Canada will move to regular follow-up and will continue to inform the FATF of progress …

UK Home Office circular 004/2021: ML & SARs

UK Home Office publishes a circular (the Circular) setting out the Government’s position on the use of SARs in civil litigation…