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November 9, 2021

Financial Crime Matters: Former US Treasury Official Discusses Taliban’s Return to Power

By Kieran Beer

In the latest episode of Financial Crime Matters, Kieran Beer, editor in chief of ACAMS moneylaundering.com and former U.S. Treasury official Alex Zerden, principal and founder of Capital Peak Strategies, a financial technology and digital asset advisory firm, discuss corruption and kleptocracy in Afghanistan and the U.S. role in combating those illicit activities. Zerden and Beer also discuss emerging terrorist-financing, money-laundering and other financial crime-related risks in Afghanistan, the U.S. and elsewhere.

Listen to the podcast here.

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Topics : Anti-money laundering , Counterterrorist Financing
Source: Afghanistan , U.S.: White House/U.S. President , U.S.: Department of Treasury , U.S.: OFAC
Document Date: November 9, 2021