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  Update to UK Sanctions List: Russia Regime

  UK Government

  March 17, 2026

  Today, Tuesday 17 March, the UK Government has varied 1 individual, corrected 3 entities and 1 individual and revoked (de-listed) 1 individual under the Russia sanctions regime. Varied Individual:

  Name	Unique ID
  Viacheslav KANTOR	RUS1127

    Corrected entities and individual:

  Name	Unique ID
  JSC BBR Bank	RUS3080
  PUBLIC JOINT STOCK COMPANY "TRANSCAPITALBANK"	RUS3459
  JOINT-STOCK COMMERCIAL BANK FORA-BANK (JOINT-STOCK COMPANY)	RUS3464
  Nikolay Dmitrievich PESKOV	RUS0862

    Revoked individual:

  Name	Unique ID
  German BELOUS	RUS0846

   

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  AMLA launches data collection exercise to test risk assessment models

  AMLA

  March 17, 2026

  The exercise will test and calibrate AMLA's risk assessment models, which serve two purposes: to inform the selection, taking place in 2027, of up to 40 entities for AMLA's direct supervision starting in 2028, and to ensure that money laundering risks of credit and financial institutions are assessed consistently by supervisors across the EU.

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  Investigation Black Forest: EPPO carries out searches on suspicion of customs fraud involving the imports of aluminium from China

  European Public Prosecutor's Office

  March 17, 2026

  (Luxembourg, 17 March 2026) – At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Berlin (Germany), multiple searches were conducted today in five different federal states of Germany, in a probe into suspected customs fraud and tax evasion involving the imports of aluminium from China into the EU. The 17 searches were carried out by the customs investigation offices Dresden, Berlin/Brandenburg and Frankfurt am Main (Zollfahndungsämter Dresden, Berlin/Brandenburg und Frankfurt am Main) in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony. Offices and houses were searched, and evidence was gathered.