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Baltasar Ebang Engong, the former director of Equatorial Guinea's financial intelligence unit who made himself infamous by recording dozens of sex tapes with the wives of regime leaders, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for embezzlement, Punch reported. More The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network directed banks to screen transactions and accounts more thoroughly for signs of Chinese passport holders wittingly or unwittingly serving as money mules for crime syndicates based in their home country, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to no longer supervise cryptocurrency exchanges, peer-to-peer payment platforms and other non-bank...