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Weekly Roundup: FATF Suspends Russia, Wagner’s Prigozhin Beat UK Law Firm’s AML Checks, and More

The Financial Action Task Force suspended Russia's membership and revised global standards for collecting and sharing beneficial ownership information, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More Yevgeny Prigozhin, the blacklisted owner of the Wagner Group, passed the anti-money laundering checks of London-based Discreet Law in 2021 by submitting a utility bill in the name of his then 81-year-old mother, the Financial Times reported, citing leaked emails. More A private attorney in New York handled payments linked to Viktor Vekselberg after U.S. officials blacklisted the Russian oligarch in 2018, moneylaundering.com reported. More The U.S. has agreed to extradite Peru's former President Alejandro Toledo back...

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