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  Update to the UK Sanctions List: Russia Regime

  OFSI

  May 1, 2025

  Today, 1 May, the UK Government has made 1 variation to the following entry under the Russia sanctions regime. This entry remains subject to Asset freeze, Director Disqualification Sanction, Transport sanctions, Trust Services Sanctions, and Travel Ban:

  Name	OFSI Group ID	Unique ID
  Albert Kashafovich SHIGABUTDINOV	15609	RUS1658

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  FinCEN Issues Alert on Oil Smuggling Schemes on the U.S. Southwest Border Associated with Mexico-Based Cartels

  FinCEN

  May 1, 2025

  Today, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing an Alert in coordination with the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Homeland Security Investigations, urging financial institutions to be vigilant in detecting, identifying, and reporting suspicious activity connected to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), Sinaloa Cartel, Gulf Cartel, and other Mexico-based transnational criminal organizations smuggling stolen crude oil from Mexico across the U.S. southwest border into the United States. In recent years, fuel theft in Mexico, including crude oil smuggling, has become the most significant non-drug illicit revenue source for the Cartels. According to U.S. law enforcement authorities, the Cartels are using complicit Mexican brokers in the oil and natural gas industry to smuggle and sell crude oil stolen from Mexico’s Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) to complicit, small U.S.-based oil and natural gas companies operating near the U.S. southwest border. As part of these schemes, the Cartels are stealing billions of dollars of crude oil, fueling rampant violence and corruption across Mexico, and undercutting legitimate oil and natural gas companies in the United States.

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  SFO opens European data centre bribery investigation

  Serious Fraud Office

  May 1, 2025

  The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) today searched five properties and made three arrests as it announced a new multi-million pound international bribery investigation. The target of the investigation is UK company Blu-3 and former associates of the global construction firm Mace Group. The operation included a search of a suspect’s premises today by Monaco authorities with assistance from the SFO. Individuals at Blu-3 are suspected of paying over £3 million of bribes to former associates of Mace Group in relation to the construction of a data centre in the Netherlands for the technology giant Microsoft.