Anti-Financial Crime & Financial Crime ComplianceBanking, Compliance News, EU/Europe
The German financial crime watchdog has ordered a Greek bank to improve AML standards.
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OFAC
WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is sanctioning over one dozen entities, individuals, and vessels that have played a central role in facilitating and financing the clandestine sale of Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL), which itself is involved in supporting Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
OFSI
On 25 April 2024 the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office updated the UK Sanctions List on GOV.UK. This list provides details of those designated under regulations made under the Sanctions Act. The following 6 entries have been added to the Iran financial sanctions regime and are now subject to an asset freeze:
European Public Prosecutor's Office
(Luxembourg, 25 April 2024) – The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) is carrying out searches today in several locations in Brăila County, in an investigation into a suspected €561 000 fraud involving EU agricultural funds. A civil servant’s office, three companies and four homes are being searched.
