After two decades of almost exclusively targeting the funding streams of jihadists at home and abroad, German authorities have detained and charged a group of violent extremists on the far-right of the political spectrum with violating their country's statutes against financial crime. At dawn on Friday, 600 agents led by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Gera raided 23 homes and businesses in Germany and arrested eight suspected members of "Turonen" and "Garde 20," two groups that belong to the neo-Nazi "Brotherhood of Thuringia," for allegedly trafficking drugs and weapons and laundering an unspecified amount of euros. "We have not been...
The recent rise in racially, religiously and politically motivated mass killings in the United States has challenged compliance professionals to flag and investigate transactions tied to the alleged perpetrators more promptly.
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