Financial Crime Weekly Podcast26 Nov 2023

Financial Crime Weekly Episode 85

Hello, and welcome

to episode 85 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. It has been another bumper week for financial crime news again this week – a hat-trick of bumper weeks. Stories across every aspect of financial crime, so let’s crack on.

As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the podcast in the description. These are:

Australian government, 2023-2030

Australian Cyber Security Strategy.

European Central Bank, Interview with

Anneli Tuominen, Member of the Supervisory Board of the ECB, conducted by

Tobias Fischer.

Financial Action Task Force, Misuse of

Citizenship and Residency by Investment Programmes.

Financial Conduct Authority, FCA censures NMC

Health Plc (in Administration) for market abuse (press release).

Financial Conduct Authority, Final Notice: NMC

Health Plc (in Administration).

Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office and Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Ownership and

Control: Public Officials and Control guidance.

International Monetary Fund, IMF Executive

Board Completes the First Reviews Under the Extended Credit Facility and

Extended Fund Facility Arrangements for Papua New Guinea.

National Cyber Security Centre, UK and Republic of

Korea issue warning about DPRK state-linked cyber actors attacking software

supply chains.

National Intelligence Service, ROK-UK Joint Cyber

Security Advisory (DPRK actors conduct S/W supply chain attacks).

Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC Charges Kraken for Operating as

an Unregistered Securities Exchange, Broker, Dealer, and Clearing Agency.

SmartSearch, Sanctions

screening by regulated firms plunges almost 50 per cent, reveals SmartSearch

survey.

UK government, UK and Republic of

Korea to enforce sanctions against North Korea through joint sea patrols (press

release).

UK judgments, Litasco SA v Der

Mond Oil and Gas Africa SA [2023] EWHC 2866 (Comm).

US Department of Justice, Monmouth County

Man Convicted of Tax Evasion in Securities Fraud Scheme.

US Department of Justice, Ex-Spouses Plead

Guilty to Receiving and Laundering Money Stolen from Retirement and Investment

Accounts.

US Department of Justice, Pharmacy Owners

and Doctor Convicted for $145M Health Care Fraud, Money Laundering, and Tax

Evasion Scheme.

US Department of Justice, COVID-19 Relief

Fraudster Convicted of Bank Fraud.

US Department of Justice, Former General

Motors Manager Found Guilty of Conspiring to Receive Bribe from Foreign Parts

Supplier Seeking Contract.

US Department of Justice, British

Reinsurance Brokers Resolve Bribery Investigations.

US Department of Justice, San Antonio Man

Indicted for Defrauding Federal COVID-Era Programs.

US Department of

Justice, Binance and CEO

Plead Guilty to Federal Charges in $4B Resolution (press release).

US Department of

Justice, Attorney General

Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks Announcing Binance and CEO Guilty Pleas to

Federal Charges in $4B Resolution.

US Department of Justice, Deputy Attorney

General Lisa O. Monaco Delivers Remarks Announcing Binance and CEO Guilty Pleas

to Federal Charges in $4B Resolution.

US Department of Justice, United States

Files Forfeiture Action to Recover Cryptocurrency Traceable to Fraud Scheme.

US Department of the Treasury, Remarks by

Assistant Secretary Graham Steele at the Federal Insurance Office and NYU Stern

Volatility and Risk Institute Conference on Catastrophic Cyber Risk and a

Potential Federal Insurance Response.

US Department of the Treasury, U.S. Treasury

Announces Largest Settlements in History with World’s Largest Virtual Currency

Exchange Binance for Violations of U.S. Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions

Laws (press release).

US Department of the Treasury, Settlement

Agreement.

US Department of the Treasury, Enforcement

Release (Binance).

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