Financial Crime Weekly Podcast12 Mar 2023

Financial Crime Weekly Episode 49

Hello, and welcome to episode 49 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m your host, Chris Kirkbride. It’s been a decent week this week, with the usual mix of sanctions, bribery, and fraud. We’ll also round-up this week’s cyber-attack news, so let’s make a start.

These are the links to the principal documents mentioned in the podcast:

Council of the European Union, Violence against women and girls: EU sanctions nine individuals and three entities under its Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime.

Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, Annual Report 2022.

Court of Justice of the European Union, The General Court annuls the restrictive measures applied to Ms Violetta Prigozhina, mother of Mr Yevgeniy Prigozhin, in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine (Press release).

Court of Justice of the European Union, Judgment of the General Court in Case T-212/22 | Prigozhina v Council.

Financial Conduct Authority, FCA takes further action against unregistered crypto ATMs in East London.

Financial Conduct Authority, FCA to collect Treasury’s economic crime levy (Anti-Money Laundering) from July.

Official Journal of the European Union, Restrictive Measures Regulations and Decisions.

Transparency International, Transparency International Designated As “Undesirable” By Russian Federation.

UK National Crime Agency, Network behind £70m criminal money laundering service dismantled.

UK Insolvency Service, 22 years of bans for two separate company directors who dissolved their businesses to take covid loan scheme money.

UK Insolvency Service, Seven year ban for care staff recruiter after abusing two Covid support schemes.

UK Insolvency Service, Two Sheffield businessmen banned for total of 17 years for falsely claiming covid loans for their companies.

US Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Virginia, Ashburn Woman Convicted of $2.5 Million Pandemic Fraud.

Us Department of Justice, Former Goldman Sachs Investment Banker Sentenced in $2.7B Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme.

US Department of the Treasury, Marking International Women’s Day, Treasury Sanctions Iranian Officials and Entities for Serious Human Rights Abuses.

US Department of the Treasury, Treasury Sanctions People Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse Against Vladimir Kara-Murza.

US Department of the Treasury, Treasury Targets Sanctions Evasion Network Moving Billions for Iranian Regime.

US Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC Charges Rio Tinto plc with Bribery Controls Failures.

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