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Weekly Roundup: Alleged Reprisals Against AML Whistleblowers Draw Federal Scrutiny, US Lawmakers Debate FinCEN’s Role in Countering Domestic Terrorism, and More

The U.S. Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration disclosed plans to investigate alleged retaliation by banks against employees who blow the whistle on suspected breaches of anti-money laundering rules, The Wall Street Journal reported. More U.S. lawmakers debated legislation that would give the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network enhanced authority to interdict funds from violent domestic extremists, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control blacklisted a senior Saudi intelligence official and special military unit for their involvement in the killing of Saudi journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi inside Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul in...

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