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Italy Threat Assessment 2021 by FCN - Premium

The 57 page comprehensive Italy Threat Assessment by Financial Crime News for 2021 is now published. Italy is rated overall “Moderate” Risk scoring 58/100 for Financial…

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Posted in Financial Crime Premium

Global Threat Assessment – By John Cusack – Publicly Available Now to Read / Download

Global Threat Assessment by John Cusack Despite the limitations presented in estimating criminal activity designed to be hidden, the results in the Global Threat Assessment…

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Interview with Stewart McGlynn – Leader of HKMA’s AML Division

In this Interview with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s Stewart McGlynn, who leads the Regulators Anti Money Laundering Team, Financial Crime News wanted to know…

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Book Review: the “Enemy of the People” by Adriaan Besson & Pieter du Tot

How did Jacob Zuma, a hero of the Apartheid struggle, a prison mate of Nelson Mandela, and the 4th President of post apartheid South Africa…

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CITES Conference Closes – Japan and EU to do more on Ivory

Last week at the 18th triennial meeting of CITES members, those responsible for regulating the international wildlife trade closed the conference which mostly saw victories…

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Posted in Financial Crime IWT

Wildlife Trafficking Syndicate ensnared by United Forces

On 13 June 2019, the US Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York indicted four individuals, Moazu KROMAH, Amara CHERIF, Mansur…

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Reaching the Unreachable by Helena Wood (RUSI)

Attacking the Assets of Serious and Organised Criminality in the UK in the Absence of a Conviction by Helena Wood – published by RUSI The…

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virtual currency joining FATF club
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Virtual Currency is joining the FATF club

Virtual Currencies (VC) have come a long way in the 10 years since Bitcoin first emerged, born out of the financial crises and now a…

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Red Alert
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Red Alert by John Cusack

I like to think of “Red Alert” as an 800 page plus private travel guide through the teeming jungle of crimes, risks, regions, countries, criminals,…

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Red Notice
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Book Review – Red Notice by Bill Browder

This book tells the story of the rise and fall of Hermitage Capital, once the largest foreign investor in post soviet Russia, which made vast…

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