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New watchdog to monitor digital currencies in EU amid AML concerns

Blow to Malta’s finance sector as tax transparency rating downgraded

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

JPMorgan Chase investigating customers and employees over Coronavirus payment program

Film producer surrenders over $60 million in money laundering settlement

Lawyers warned of being ‘caught’ in crime operations

Countries on EU ‘blacklist’ seek to save their competitiveness

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

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

Von der Leyen appoints European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness to head up bloc’s AML drive

Visa to answer questions from European Commission over regulation of FinTechs

Former Venezuelan official turns himself in to US authorities over Billion dollar money laundering investigation

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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.