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US DOJ taps 150 prosecutors in newly formed Digital Asset Coordinators Network

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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says digital assets could offer ‘significant opportunities’ if risks are mitigated

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NEWS: Australian Federal Police launch unit to tackle crypto money laundering

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NEWS: OFSI orders crypto exchanges to report suspected sanctions breaches in new guidance

Europol has identified AI powered fraud as a key problem area

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NEWS: Europol says crypto is ‘key’ to tackling organised crime; Virtual Assets offer ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to investigate illicit finance

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NEWS: Former EBA alternative chair warns a ‘divide’ has emerged between EU and UK crypto regulation

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NEWS: Suspected crypto scam shut down by UK Government after firms failure to explain ‘large payments’ and misuse of Bounce Back Loans

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NEWS: Binance Comm’s Chief warns of crypto scams as hackers impersonate him for business meetings

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NFTs worth over $100M (€100.1M) stolen since July 2021 – Report

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South Korea’s FIU targets 16 foreign crypto firms operating without licences; urges customers to practice ‘extra caution’

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ECB says it has responsibility to ensure crypto providers operate ‘safely and soundly’ in the bloc

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NEWS: Netherlands extradites Russian man for alleged crypto money laundering

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Memorandum of Understanding between OFAC and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs
OFAC
May 16, 2025
The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has published its Memorandum of Understanding with Switzerland's State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).
Crime group used light aircraft to smuggle cocaine haul to UK
National Crime Agency
May 16, 2025
A qualified pilot used his light aircraft in a bid to smuggle cocaine into the UK. Pilot Anastasios Balian, 52, and accomplice Errol McCardo Weir, 48, admitted trying to bring 30kg of the Class A drug into the country, following a National Crime Agency investigation. On 20 March this year, they were stopped by Border Force officers at North Weald airfield in Epping, Essex, after landing from Belgium via Calais. Officers searched the small plane and discovered a concealment had been built into the rear seats. Inside it were 30 1kg blocks of cocaine with a street value of about £2.4m.
£2m fine for online operator Spreadex Limited
Gambling Commission
May 16, 2025
A gambling business will pay a £2,022,000 penalty after a Gambling Commission investigation revealed Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and social responsibility failings.
Spreadex Limited – which operates from Spreadex.com – will also have to undergo a third-party audit to ensure it is effectively implementing its anti-money laundering and safer gambling policies, procedures and controls. The failures were revealed during a compliance assessment in July 2023 and relate to the operator’s Gambling Commission licence to offer casino and fixed odds betting.