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Weekly Roundup: Britain Fines Santander, US Treasury Designates Human Rights Abusers, and More

The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority fined Banco Santander almost £108 million for long- running and systemic failures in its anti-money laundering controls that allowed suspicious money services businesses to move hundreds of millions of pounds, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More The U.S. Treasury announced sanctions against dozens of individuals and entities for human rights abuses and corruption in countries including North Korea, Iran, El Salvador, Guatemala, the Philippines, Russia and China. More and More Britain issued its own raft of human rights designations, backlisting 10 Iranian officials implicated in a violent crackdown against anti-regime protesters and 20 other individuals in Russia,...

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