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A rare fine issued by the U.K. Office of Sanctions Implementation appears to mark a new approach towards assessing monetary penalties but raises questions over the agency's investigative capabilities, sources told ACAMS moneylaundering.com. In a 4-page notice, OFSI on Thursday issued a £50,000 fine against TransferGo, a London-headquartered payment institution, for allowing several clients to send almost £8,000 to accounts at Russian National Commercial Bank, or RNCB, beginning four years after the EU blacklisted the institution in response to the Kremlin's illegal annexation of Crimea. From March 2018 to December 2019, according to OFSI, TransferGo facilitated 16 transactions to accounts...