FinCEN, the AML unit of the U.S. Treasury, has hit a casino with a penalty of just under $1 million.
The Lake Elsinore Hotel and Casino in California was fined for serious violations of AML regulations. This marks FinCEN’s first enforcement action against a casino in six years.
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Fine for trust office Amicorp for insufficient customer due diligence
DNB
De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) imposed an administrative fine of €530.450,- on trust office Amicorp Netherlands B.V. (Amicorp) on 25 March 2025. The fine was imposed because the customer due diligence carried out by Amicorp did not meet the legal requirements.Trust offices may not enter into a business relationship or provide a trust service until customer due diligence has been carried out that meets the legal requirements as set out in the Act on the Supervision of Trust Offices 2018 .
Slovakia: EPPO indicts two individuals and one company for subsidy fraud involving EU agricultural funds
European Public Prosecutor's Office
(Luxembourg, 2 April 2025) – The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bratislava (Slovakia) has filed an indictment against two individuals and one company for subsidy fraud and misappropriation of funds, in an investigation regarding the modernisation of fruit warehouses worth over €500 000 and co-financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD).
Operation Venetic: Crime “linchpin” who brokered multi-million-pound drugs deals is jailed
National Crime Agency
A man who masterminded the importation and sale of cocaine and heroin worth more than £4m has been jailed for 18 years, after National Crime Agency (NCA) investigators identified him from secret phone messages.
Heemal Vaid, 49, of Cheam, used EncroChat – an encrypted phone service for criminals – to broker deals, not knowing that in 2020 an international law enforcement team would crack EncroChat’s encryption.