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Weekly Roundup: FinCEN Flags Sanctions Evasion Schemes, Latvian Banker Faces Murder Trial, and More

The U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security advised banks on strategies they could use to prevent attempts to obtain "low-technology consumer goods" and "critical components" with military uses for Russia, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More Mihails Ulmans, who co-owns Latvia's LPB Bank, faces trial after allegedly masterminding a conspiracy to murder a local attorney who reported the lender to local authorities for enabling money laundering, the Financial Times reported. More U.K. regulators plan to refuse a bid by Revolut, Britain's most valuable electronic money institution, to obtain a banking license following a two-year...

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