FINCEN, the AML unit of the U.S. Treasury, has launched a partnership with FIUs across South America to tackle environmental crime in the Amazon region.
FinCEN announced it held a virtual summit to coordinate efforts against transnational criminal organizations (TCOs).
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Operation Venetic: Drug dealer caught with five kilos of cocaine found to have imported a further £17m worth
National Crime Agency
A south London drug dealer convicted for supplying cocaine has been jailed after his seized encrypted phone showed he had imported more than half a tonne of the class A drug.
Kurtis Hoyte, 35, from Beckenham, was investigated by the Organised Crime Partnership (OCP) – a joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service unit.
OCP officers arrested him in May 2020 after he was observed handing over five kilos of cocaine with an estimated street value of £180,000 to the driver of a flat-bed truck near Beckenham Hill Station.
Adoption of the revised EBA guidelines on money laundering and terrorist financing risk factors
CSSF
These amending Guidelines complement the Guidelines on ML/TF risk factors by addressing the specific risks associated with crypto-assets and crypto-asset service providers (“CASPs”) and by providing for measures that CASPs and other credit and financial institutions should take to manage these risks.
Nearly a quarter of young adults admit to bank loan fraud – Cifas research
CIFAS
Latest research underpins consumer ‘acceptance’ of first party fraud
12% of adults say they or someone they know have deceived their bank
Warning that fraud rules may unintentionally encourage more dishonest claims
Around 1 in 4 (24%) 25-34-year-olds have either lied to their bank or know someone who has in the last 12 months, claiming a loan has been fraudulently applied for so they avoid repayments. That’s according to the latest Fraud Behaviours Survey findings from UK-leading fraud prevention service, Cifas.