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NEWS: Crackdown lined up on ‘billions’ being laundered through Australian poker machines

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FINE: Brendan Thomas, AUSTRAC’s chief executive, said AUSTRAC took this action “out of concern that SkyCity’s conduct meant that a range of high-risk practices, behaviours and customer relationships were allowed to continue unchecked for many years”.

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NEWS: Nigeria court rules Binance executive can face trial on behalf of crypto exchange

NEWS: EU must do more to battle ‘faceless’ criminals, Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe tells Anti-Financial Crime Summit 2024

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NEWS:Casino firm SkyCity agrees to $67m penalty from AUSTRAC over AML failures

By PAUL O’DONOGHUE for AML Intelligence Brendan Thomas, the recently-appointed chief executive of AUSTRAC, has promised to target poker machines in New South Wales (NSW). The move is part of a broader attempt by the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), the state anti-money laundering body, to reduce the laundering of dirty money through…

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NEWS: Nigeria court rules Binance executive can face trial on behalf of crypto exchange

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NEWS:Casino firm SkyCity agrees to $67m penalty from AUSTRAC over AML failures

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  • Setting up the new EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority for success

    Central Bank of Ireland

    Speaking at the European Anti-Financial Crime Summit today, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland Derville Rowland said: “The commitment of European leaders to introduce a single rulebook for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and the creation of a new European AML supervisory and financial intelligence coordination authority is truly historic, and we are at an inflection point in the journey of financial crime prevention.

  • NCA secures first Unexplained Wealth Order in Northern Ireland

    National Crime Agency

    The National Crime Agency (NCA) has secured the first Unexplained Wealth Order in Northern Ireland against a man suspected of involvement in serious organised crime. The Order compels the man and his wife to explain the source of funds used to construct a property in County Armagh worth approximately £275,000. It was obtained at the High Court in Belfast on Friday (17 May) as part of an ongoing NCA civil recovery investigation.

  • Financial sanctions update: DPRK, Russia, DRC, ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida & Burundi

    OFSI

    On 17 May 2024 the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office updated the UK Sanctions List on GOV.UK. This list provides details of those designated under regulations made under the Sanctions Act.  The following entries have been added to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea financial sanctions regime and are now subject to an asset freeze: 

    • Aleksey Mikhailovich Vorotnikov (Group ID: 16499) 
    • Paekyangsan Shipping Co Ltd (Group ID: 16495) 
    • Toplivo Bunkering Company (Group ID: 16496) 

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