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Midweek Roundup: Gold Laundering Fuels Sudanese War, UK Regulator Pitches Name-and-Shame Plan, and More

Money launderers, mainly from the United Arab Emirates, are fueling the war in Sudan by receiving and integrating gold from blacklisted companies into the international market, Foreign Affairs reported. More The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority plans to publicly identify banks and financial institutions suspected of regulatory breaches more frequently and at an earlier stage of investigations, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More Ilya Lichenstein, who pleaded guilty to U.S. charges of siphoning and laundering billions of dollars from global cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, appeared as a cooperating witness in a separate trial to explain how he carried out the heist, Bloomberg reported. More FTX cryptocurrency exchange...

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