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French MEP Aurore Lalucq

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NEWS: EU finance chief Albuquerque tells AMLA to deliver ‘simpler, smarter, more proportionate’ supervision

By PAUL O’DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent

AMLA, the EU’s new AML Authority, must crack down on organised crime groups using stablecoins to move dirty money, according to French MEP Aurore Lalucq.

“The risks we are witnessing today regarding organized crime links to crypto and stablecoin are terrifying,” she said at the inaugural AMLA conference in Frankfurt.

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