Category: Analysis & Opinion

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FinCEN leak: Fall-out revealed after it emerges money laundering influence in football, gold and UK politics

OPINION: The FinCEN Files – Will they change anything?

What are the FinCEN Files? The story of the 2,100 SARs leaked from the US Treasury Department

Member States lagging behind need to ‘expedite’ their current regime for 6th Money Laundering Directive

The Irish Trifecta cracking down on financial crime on the European stage

PROFILE:‘No-nonsense’ Brussels veteran who gets stuck into the detail

New EU-wide AML system is needed to co-ordinate national supervisors – European Commission FinCrime chief interview

Lagging or leading? Deconstructing Eastern Europe’s efforts to combat financial crime

The EU, the €673Billion bailout fund and a problem of who will police it?

Cryptocurrencies and financial crime: Opportunism or an inherent design flaw?

Londongrad Laundromat: Welcoming the oligarchs with open arms

Brexit

Agents must keep Anti-Money Laundering practices in line as Britain leaves the EU

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Russia-related Designation Removal
OFAC
April 3, 2026
The following deletion have been made to OFAC's SDN List:
ZADORNOV, Mikhail Mikhaylovich (Cyrillic: ЗАДОРНОВ, Михаил Михайлович) (a.k.a. ZADORNOV, Mikhail Mikhailovich), Str. Malaya Molchanovka, 8-29, Moscow 121069, Russia; DOB 04 May 1963; POB Moscow, Russia; nationality Russia; Gender Male; Secondary sanctions risk: See Section 11 of Executive Order 14024.; Passport 760019543 (Russia) (individual) [RUSSIA-EO14024] (Linked To: PUBLIC JOINT STOCK COMPANY BANK FINANCIAL CORPORATION OTKRITIE).
Hull funeral director pleads guilty to 67 criminal charges
The Crown Prosecution Service
April 2, 2026
A man has pleaded guilty to dozens of counts of preventing a lawful and decent burial after remains were found at a funeral directors in Hull in 2024.

Robert Bush, 47, formerly of Kirk Ella, East Yorkshire, has pleaded guilty today (2 April 2026) to a total of 67 charges, including the prevention of a lawful and decent burial, fraud, fraudulent trading, and theft.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) prosecuted Bush following an investigation by Humberside Police.
From intelligence to conviction: Europol helps dismantle Terrorgram Collective
Europol
April 2, 2026
A Canadian man has been sentenced by the Public Prosecution Service of Canada to 20 years in prison for terrorism-related offences, following an investigation supported by Europol’s European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC). The individual, based in Ontario’s Niagara region, pleaded guilty to producing and disseminating violent white supremacist propaganda as part of the online extremist network known as the “Terrorgram Collective”. Content he co-created and shared online was found to have inspired multiple terrorist attacks.