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NEWS: Australia’s Crown Resorts fined $300M by court for AML failings which saw billions in suspicious transactions in its casinos

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NEWS: Blackstone-owned Crown Resorts found fit to hold Melbourne casino license

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NEWS: Half of Russia’s payments to China made through middlemen, sources say

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REGULATORY INTELLIGENCE: Everything you need to know about Europe’s new AML laws and the Authority (AMLA) – all in one place

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NEWS: France, Ireland and Latvia called out by EU for AML failures

An Australian court signed off on a A$450 million ($300 million) fine for Blackstone-owned owned casino operator Crown Resorts for breaking anti-money laundering laws, ending the darkest chapter in the company’s history. The company, dominated by billionaire founder James Packer before he agreed to sell last year, agreed to the payment in May after allegations…

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NEWS: Half of Russia’s payments to China made through middlemen, sources say

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NEWS: France, Ireland and Latvia called out by EU for AML failures

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  • SIRIUS and An Garda Síochána advance collaboration in cross-border access to electronic evidence

    Europol

    On the 25 and 26 April 2024, over 47 representatives from 25 law enforcement authorities (LEAs) across Europe as well as 29 representatives from 15 companies met in Dublin, Ireland, at the invitation of An Garda Síochána and the SIRIUS project, at the The SIRIUS SPoC Network Meeting. The meeting served for participants to share the latest developments, best practices, common challenges and possible solutions in the area of cross-border access to electronic evidence. Countries with no Single Point of Contact (SPoC) in place attended the event as observers, to assess if any of the established methods could possibly be of interest and put in place within their own agencies.

  • U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office Launches New Partnership with the National Science Foundation on Terrorism and Catastrophic Cyber Risks

    US Department of the Treasury

      WASHINGTON – This week, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office (FIO) hosted the 2024 International Forum of Terrorism Risk (Re)Insurance Pools (IFTRIP) Annual Conference.  IFTRIP is a forum of 15 nations, including the United States, supporting initiatives for closer international collaboration among sovereign-backed terrorism reinsurance pools.  FIO began serving as chair of the IFTRIP in 2024.

  • Head of NCA calls for reform on defensive reporting
    Four arrested in UK in joint NCA-French operation targeting alleged Vietnamese Facebook people smugglers

    National Crime Agency

    Four Vietnamese nationals have been arrested by the National Crime Agency in Deptford, Croydon and Leicester as part of a major joint UK-French investigation into alleged small boats people smugglers advertising crossings on Facebook. NCA officers arrested a 23-year-old woman at an address in Heathfield Road, Croydon and a 64-year-old man at an address in Abinger Grove, London on Monday morning. A man aged 34 was arrested in Grasmere Street, Leicester.

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