Hello, and welcome to episode 86 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. It has been another bumper week for financial crime news again this week. It’s becoming a little silly now. 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:

Ankura Consulting Group LLC, UK: The Current

Economic Climate - A Golden Age For Fraud?

Council of the European Union, Humanitarian

action: EU introduces further exceptions to sanctions to facilitate the

delivery of assistance.

Crown Prosecution Service, Oxbridge fraudster

gets another eight-years in jail for failing to pay back £2.7m court order.

Department of Justice, United Kingdom

National Pleads Guilty to Hacking, Securities Fraud, and other Cybercrimes.

Department of State, The United States

and North Macedonia: A NATO Ally and Strategic Partner in the Balkans.

Entain plc, Update on Deferred

Prosecution Agreement.

European Banking Authority, The EBA consults

on new Guidelines on preventing the abuse of funds and certain crypto-assets

transfers for money laundering and terrorist financing purposes.

European Banking Authority, EBA issues

guidance to AML/CFT supervisors of CASPs.

European Banking Authority, Final Report:

Guidelines amending Guidelines EBA/GL/2021/16 on the characteristics of a

risk-based approach to anti‐money laundering and terrorist financing

supervision, and the steps to be taken when conducting supervision on a

risk‐sensitive basis under Article 48(10) of Directive (EU) 2015/849 (The

Risk‐Based Supervision Guidelines).

European Banking Authority, (Corrigendum)

Final Report: Guidelines amending Guidelines EBA/GL/2021/16 on the

characteristics of a risk-based approach to anti‐money laundering and terrorist

financing supervision, and the steps to be taken when conducting supervision on

a risk‐sensitive basis under Article 48(10) of Directive (EU) 2015/849 (The

Risk‐Based Supervision Guidelines).

Europol, International

collaboration leads to dismantlement of ransomware group in Ukraine amidst

ongoing war.

Griffore, K.A., Bowra, A., Guilcher, S.J. et al., Corruption risks

in health procurement during the COVID-19 pandemic and anti-corruption,

transparency and accountability (ACTA) mechanisms to reduce these risks: a

rapid review. Global Health 19, 91 (2023).

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Cypriot

authorities face scrutiny over probe into Russian billionaire’s moves to dodge

sanctions.

Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, General Licence –

Correspondent Banking Payments INT/2023/3566356 (amendment).

Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Financial

Sanctions Notice: Iran (Nuclear).

Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Financial

Sanctions Notice: Libya.

Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Financial

Sanctions Notice: Russia.

Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, OFSI successfully

defends first Court Review.

Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury Sanctions

Mixer Used by the DPRK to Launder Stolen Virtual Currency.

Serious Fraud Office, SFO secures nine

month sentence for solicitor who tipped off client about criminal investigation.

Spotlight on Corruption, Submission to HM

Treasury’s anti-money laundering consultation, September 2023.

The Guardian, ‘This is what

survivors look like’: the romance fraud victims who want to help others.

Transparency International, Political

Corruption in Europe: A Threat to More than Public Funds.

US Department of Justice, Principal

Associate Deputy Attorney General Marshall Miller Delivers Remarks at the New

York City Bar Association’s International White Collar Crime Symposium.