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Weekly Roundup: BVI Leader’s Arrest Complicates Global AML Assessment, Treasury Targets Cryptocurrency Mixer, and More

A U.S. indictment charging Andrew Fahie, premier of the British Vrigin Islands, with conspiring to traffic drugs and launder money could impact the overseas territory scores in an upcoming evaluation of its anti-financial crime controls, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More In the first ever U.S. designation of a "mixer," the Treasury Department blacklisted Blender, a service that jumbles unrelated units of cryptocurrency together to obscure their origin, for helping North Korea launder more than $20 million in stolen funds, the Hill reported. More The alleged ringleader of a money laundering syndicate that moved hundreds of millions of pounds of illicit cash...

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