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Weekly Roundup: France Calls for Better Tracking of Terror Funds, Russia Risks FATF Reprisal for Repatriation Program, and More
printCountries must redouble their efforts to track terrorist funds in the wake of this month's deadly attack on Paris-based satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said in an interview with Nikkei Asian Review. More Perpetrators of the attack returned from Yemen in 2011 with $20,000 to finance the operation, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. More Argentina's central bank fined HSBC's regional affiliate $10 million for anti-money laundering (AML) violations, including deficient know-your-customer procedures and a failure to determine the source of $42 million in currency it exchanged, El Economista America reported Friday. Roughly $16 million in...
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