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Weekly Roundup: FATF Targets Hamas, SBF Testimony Continues, and More

The Financial Action Task Force added Bulgaria to a gray list of nations with porous legal and regulatory regimes against illicit finance; de-listed Albania, Panama and the Cayman Islands; and recommended more exchanges of financial intelligence to choke off funds to Hamas, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried continued his testimony Friday as part of his trial on wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering charges in New York, claiming that he "basically knew nothing" about cryptocurrency before launching his trading platform Alameda Research, and rejecting accusations that he defrauded anyone, Reuters and CNN reported. More and More...

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