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The first-ever disclosure of a federal indictment and designation of an alleged human smuggler suggests a more robust federal campaign against persons who help high-risk foreign nationals illegally relocate to the U.S. for a fee, sources told ACAMS moneylaundering.com. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control blacklisted a 40-year-old Pakistani national, Abid Ali Khan, on April 7, accusing him of leading a "prolific" transnational criminal organization based in Nowshera, Pakistan, that from January 2015 to December 2020 charged migrants $20,000 apiece to move them into the U.S. without authorization. As early as January 2015, Khan began procuring forged records and making...