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Midweek Roundup: FinCEN Delays Real Estate Plan, Money Mule Networks Targeted Ukrainians, and More

The U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network appears to have delayed its plans to extend anti-money laundering rules to the real estate industry until next year, according to the FACT Coalition. More AML safeguards in the U.S. real estate market lag behind those of 21 other industrialized countries, Transparency International concluded in a report. More Money launderers took advantage of an EU-wide relaxation of onboarding procedures for Ukrainian refugees to move funds, moneylaundering.com reported. More European lawmakers and national officials reached a provisional deal on a leadership structure for the EU's new AML agency, but failed to agree on...

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