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LATEST: Race begins for AMLA Chair as €290,000 tax-free job advertised, high profile candidates in the wings

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NEWS: Europe’s new AML rules pass final hurdle, paving way for AMLA jobs to be posted

NEWS: Pleyer and Lee honoured for their efforts fighting financial crime at EAFCS 2024

INSIGHT: Setting up the new EU AML Authority (AMLA) for success

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INSIGHT: Monaco fights desperate rearguard action to stay off FATF’s greylist; lines form to register Beneficial Ownerships

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ANALYSIS: In Detail – what the new European AML laws mean for you

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ANALYSIS: 17,000 ATM withdrawals, $1.9M in cash thru shell companies to Colombia – the US case against TD Bank

NEWS: Amsterdam’s mayor warns than Netherlands risks becoming ‘narco-state’ swamped with criminal money, violence

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LATEST: EU agrees ‘Eurovision’ voting system to decide AMLA host city; 12th round of sanctions agreed

Warning from UBS audit on bank's statements

BREAKING: UBS fails to overturn guilty verdict in money laundering case – but France’s top court orders re-trial over €1.8BN fine

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NOTEBOOK: The stark reality of organised crime’s growing influence in European business and politics is laid bare in understated Europol report

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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100 sanctioned under the Russia Sanctions Regime
UK Government
May 20, 2025
Today, 20 May, the UK Government has sanctioned 20 individuals, 62 entities, and 18 ships under the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. This package targets Russian revenue generating sectors, including energy, communications and financial services, the Russian military industrial complex (RMIC) and its third country suppliers, and malign actors involved in democratic interference and Russia’s information war on Ukraine. Click here for further details.
Greece: EPPO probes OPEKEPE officials over alleged organised agricultural subsidy fraud and corruption
European Public Prosecutor's Office
May 20, 2025
(Luxembourg, 20 May 2025) – Since yesterday until early hours this morning, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Athens (Greece) has led searches as part of an ongoing investigation into an alleged organised fraud scheme involving agricultural funds and corruption involving public officials of the Greek Payment and Control Agency for Guidance and Guarantee Community Aids (OPEKEPE).
A fifth admit to retail refund fraud or knowing someone who has, Cifas warns
CIFAS
May 20, 2025
New research from leading fraud prevention service Cifas reveals that 19% of UK consumers have either falsely claimed a failed delivery or know someone who has – often to get a refund after using the product. The findings highlight a worrying surge in opportunistic fraud that is hitting retailers hard. With 80% of UK shoppers now buying online, the stakes are high: the retail sector is already losing over £11 billion annually to payment fraud.