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The Czech Republic has upgraded its campaign against financial crime through legislation and more prosecutions in recent years, but the country's financial regulators have failed to deter anti-money laundering violations, according to an international assessment. Czech authorities know their country's vulnerabilities to financial crime and assist international investigations, while Czech banks generally maintain high-quality compliance programs, the Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism, also known as Moneyval, concluded in a 246-page report published Monday. But assessors also claimed that staffing shortages have hampered the Czech Republic's Financial Analytical Unit, or FAU,...