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Italy’s criminals set eyes on pandemic fund

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Italy’s organised crime networks set eyes on the European Union’s €13.5 Billion pandemic fund earmarked for southern recovery

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Top FinCrime expert blasts Johnson government for illicit finance failures; warns that new path is needed when Biden takes Presidency

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EBA warns deposit guarantee schemes may fall victim to financial crime; calls for heightened security and information sharing

Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei

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Iran attempts to comply with FATF legislation to lift itself out of blacklist

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Hong Kong officials arrest four and freeze assets in crackdown on major crime ring; nearly €100 million laundered in 11 months

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Australian gambling industry faces ‘multiple criminal threats’ from casino junkets – watchdog claims money laundering a serious issue

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ANALYSIS: Inside the America NDAA and what it means for the fight against money laundering.

Maltese investigators launch probe into Italian national with suspected links to multi-billion euro mafia laundering plans

NY prosecutors speak to Deutsche personnel connected to Trump financial investigation

Roberto Gualtieri and UniCredit

Italy finally enacts 2013 ECB directives on appointing bank directors with financial crime sentences

Head of German audit watchdog faces probe after alleged admissions he traded in Wirecard stock just before company folded

France deems KYC procedures compulsory for all cryptocurrency transactions

France announces strict cryptocurrency KYC rules to fight money laundering and terrorist financing

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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.