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NEWS: FinCEN director Gacki meets Israel AML authority to share intelligence on Hamas funding

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LATEST: German government approves new AML super-agency (FFCA) and establishment of ‘Money Laundering Investigation Center’

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NEWS: FCA and NCA probe how Revolut paid out up to £1.7M from flagged accounts over summer

NEWS: EY pays back £15M to Santander UK, fincrime work terminated in dispute over AML quality

NEWS: Britain’s watchdog takes adverts around ‘Dumb Money’ to warn of hype in high-risk investments

NEWS: Germany hosts expert meeting as project to build new AML super agency builds momentum

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NEWS: Dubai mulls extradition of Kinahan cartel chiefs in its efforts to move of FATF’s grey list

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NEWS: Singapore police seize money launderer’s assets in Credit Suisse and Julius Baer banks in S$1.8 billion case

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NEWS: UAE says 48pc rise in STRs in efforts to get off FATF ‘greylist’; problems persist in extraditing gangland suspects

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ANALYSIS: Switzerland drafts new AML laws targeting lawyers, advisors and trusts as it relents in face of sustained fincrime criticism

NEWS: Estonia’s FSA fines LHV bank €900K for AML/CFT failings

INSIGHT: EU’s top regulators warn of money laundering threat in deal for closer economic ties with Monaco, San Marino and Andorra

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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.