Category: Regions

Regulatory Watch News

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  Surrey bookkeeper cooked the books and underreported almost $1 million in GST/HST

  FINTRAC

  May 20, 2025

  The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) announced that Aeddy Leung of Surrey, British Columbia, received a conditional sentence order for two years less a day and two years probation on April 15, 2025, at the Provincial Court of British Columbia (Robson Square). Leung pleaded guilty to willfully evading remittance tax and to making false statements in Goods and Services Tax (GST)/Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) returns.

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  People smuggler who organised Mediterranean crossings on ‘death trap’ boats threatened to throw migrants in the sea

  National Crime Agency

  May 20, 2025

  A man arrested by the National Crime Agency for masterminding the smuggling of thousands of people across the Mediterranean from north Africa into Europe has been jailed for 25 years. 42-year-old Egyptian national Ahmed Ramadan Mohamad Ebid was detained in Hounslow, west London, in June 2023. Working with law enforcement partners in Italy, the NCA were able to link him to a number of illegal crossings from Libya.

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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.