Financial Crime Weekly Episode 283

Welcome to episode 283 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast. I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, OFAC designates Iranian digital asset exchange BitBank, and terminates Ethiopia emergency sanctions alongside updated Russia-related Lukoil authorisations. The UK revokes maritime sanctions on the oil tanker ASTRA. On money laundering and regulatory oversight, the UK FCA has opened an enforcement investigation into Euro Exchange Securities, and announced its plan to assume anti-money laundering supervision. Finally, the FATF has issued global red-flag guidance on emerging illicit finance risks in gaming and gambling. On bribery and corruption, former Vitol trader receives a custodial sentence, while GRECO's President urged closer institutional alignment with the EU. Finally, on fraud and cybercrime, a former Puerto Rican bank CEO is sentenced for wire fraud and Venezuela sanctions evasion conspiracy, and the UK National Cyber Security Centre releases scheme guidance for its Cyber Adversary Simulation assurance framework.

A transcript of this podcast, with links to the stories, will be available at www.crimes.financial.

The photograph on the podcast cover art is by Sora Shimazaki at Pexels, and the stinger sample between each news section is ‘Ben Logo 1’ by BenKirb from Pixabay.

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