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FATF Plenary Acts on Virtual Assets, Beneficial Ownership, Environmental Crime, Mitigating the Unintended Consequences of the FATF Standards, and Digital Transformation of AML/CFT for Operational Agencies |
On October 21, 2021, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) issued a statement on the results of the fifth Plenary of the FATF under the German Presidency.
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Bruce Zagaris |
37 |
11 |
2021-10-29 |
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FATF, Money Laundering |
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Met Officials and U.S. Investigators Discuss Possibility of Cambodian Artifacts Stolen from Ancient Sites |
In October 2021, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in New York announced its collaboration with U.S. investigators from the U.S. Attorney’s office to determine if the artifacts in the... |
Marwah Adhoob |
37 |
11 |
2021-10-28 |
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Art and Cultural Property, United Nations |
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Mexico Brings Suit in U.S. Court in Florida to Recover Assets from Former Security Chief Linked to Sinaloa Cartel |
On September 21, 2021, the Mexican government on behalf of its Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) filed a 141-page complaint in the Florida state court against former security chief Genero Garcia... |
Bruce Zagaris |
37 |
11 |
2021-10-26 |
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Corruption, Money Laundering |
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The Second Circuit (partially) clarifies the procedures applicable to prosecution of foreign sovereign owned enterprises. |
On October 22, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an opinion in United States v. Halkbank, 20 Cr. 3499, directing that a criminal prosecution against sovereign-... |
Frederick T. Davis* |
37 |
11 |
2021-10-26 |
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Court Conviction |
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Cape Verde’s Extradition of Venezuelan President’s Ally Prompts Retaliation |
On October 16, 2021, Cape Verde extradited Alex Nain Saab Moran (Saab) to the United States to answer an indictment charging him with laundering the proceeds of violations of the Foreign Corrupt... |
Bruce Zagaris |
37 |
10 |
2021-10-21 |
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Crimes, Extradition |
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EU Justice & Home Affairs Council Acts on Digital Dimension of Child Sexual Abuse, the External Dimension of Migration, and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office |
On October 7-8, 2021, the European Justice and Home Affairs Council met and agreed to take several initiatives on international enforcement matters.[1]
[1][1] EU,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
37 |
10 |
2021-10-20 |
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EU Justice and Home Affairs Council, Economic Integration |
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Libyan Fact-Finding Mission Renews Mandate as U.N. Report Warns of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity |
An October 4, 2021 report published by the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya (“Mission”) warned of the likelihood of war crimes and crimes... |
Kenneth Boggess |
37 |
10 |
2021-10-20 |
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Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes |
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EU Council Adopts Afghanistan Counter-Terrorism Action Plan |
On September 29, 2021, the EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator briefed the Justice and Home Affairs Council (JHA Council) on its Afghanistan Counter-Terrorism Action Plan.[1]
... |
Bruce Zagaris |
37 |
10 |
2021-10-19 |
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Counter-terrorism |
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Netherlands Funds Iraq UNITAD Witness Protection Program |
On September 5, 2021, the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave funding to the United Nations Investigations Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL (... |
Marwah Adhoob |
37 |
10 |
2021-10-16 |
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War Crimes |
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State Department Lawyer Quits Calling Biden Administration Policy on Asylum ‘Inhumane’ |
Harold Koh, a top legal advisor at the State Department, resigned after the Biden administration’s use of Title 42 to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants, calling it “inhumane... |
Marwah Adhoob |
37 |
10 |
2021-10-14 |
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Asylum, Immigration |
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Swiss Banker Violates Bail in Spain to Return to Switzerland to Avoid U.S. Extradition |
On September 27, 2021, Finews.com in Switzerland reported that Peter Rüegg, the former bank official of Privatbank IHAG, left Mallorca, Spain, where Spanish authorities arrested him on a... |
Bruce Zagaris |
37 |
10 |
2021-10-13 |
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Crimes, Extradition |
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China Declares All Cryptocurrency Transactions Illegal While the U.S. and EU Prepare Further Crypto Regulation |
On September 24, 2021, China officially declared illegal all crypto transactions.[1] China’s central bank stated that the cryptocurrency business activities seriously harm the safety of... |
Matteo Formaggi [1] |
37 |
10 |
2021-10-12 |
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Compliance, Crimes, Cybercrime |
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Canadian Fashion Mogul Waives Extradition to the U.S. as Canada Charges Him with Sexual Assault |
On October 1, 2021, 80-year-old Canadian former fashion mogul Peter Nygard consented to extradition to the United States to face United States federal sex trafficking charges.[1]
[1]... |
Bruce Zagaris |
37 |
10 |
2021-10-09 |
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Extradition, Sex Crimes |
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Founder of Russian Bank Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud, Including Falsifying His Expatriation Statement |
On October 1, 2021, Oleg Tinkov, also known as Oleg Tinkoff, the founder of a Russian bank, pleaded guilty to filing a materially false tax return and agreed to pay more than $500 million in... |
Bruce Zagaris |
37 |
10 |
2021-10-08 |
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Crimes, Tax Crimes |
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Pandora Papers Sheds Light on Financial Secrecy Abuses |
On October 3, 2021, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released a new series of investigative stories and millions of leaked documents about political leaders,... |
Bruce Zagaris |
37 |
10 |
2021-10-07 |
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Economic Crimes, Money Laundering |
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European Court of Human Rights Finds Russia Responsible for Assassination of Litvinenko and Britain. Names Third Russian Suspect in Poisoning of Skripal |
On September 21, 2021, the European Human Rights Court’s Chamber overwhelmingly held Russia responsible for the poisoning of Aleksandr Litvinenko.[1] On the same day, the British... |
Bruce Zagaris |
37 |
10 |
2021-09-30 |
Russia |
Assassination |
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Crypto Expert Plead Guilty to Assisting N. Korea Evade Sanctions |
On September 27, 2021, the U.S. District Court in Manhattan announced that a U.S. citizen pled guilty to conspiring to aid Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) evade... |
Marwah Adhoob |
37 |
10 |
2021-09-30 |
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Court Conviction, Crimes, Cybercrime |
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Huawei CFO Wanzhou Meg Enters into DPA with the U.S. to End the U.S. Extradition Case in Canada as China Frees Two Canadians |
On September 24, 2021, Wanzhou Meng, 24, the Chief Financial Officer of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) and was arraigned on charges of conspiracy... |
Bruce Zagaris |
37 |
10 |
2021-09-28 |
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Extradition, Sanctions |
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Biden Administration Sanctions Ethiopian Civil War Perpetrators |
On September 17, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order authorizing sanctions against the Ethiopian government, the Eritrean government, the Tigray People's Liberation Front, and the... |
Marwah Adhoob |
37 |
10 |
2021-09-27 |
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Crimes against Humanity, Human Rights |
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U.S. Sanctions Russian-Owned Crypto-Exchange for Ransomware Activities |
On September 21, 2021, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the first virtual currency exchange for laundering cyber ransoms and updated its... |
Bruce Zagaris |
37 |
10 |
2021-09-24 |
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Cybercrime, Economic Sanctions, Money Laundering |
