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Weekly Roundup: German FIU Has Backlog of 20,000 STRs, Goldman Sachs Sued in New York, and More

A senior police officer accused Germany’s financial intelligence unit of endangering lives by failing to address a backlog of 20,000 suspicious transaction reports, the National reported, citing Bayerischer Rundfunk. More Goldman Sachs is being sued in New York by its former managing director, Chistopher Rollins, who claims he was unfairly sacked last year after blowing the whistle on suspicious transactions involving a “notorious” unnamed European businessman, Financial Times reported. More Maria Butina, a Russian student accused by U.S. prosecutors of secretly liaising between the government in Moscow and American conservative groups, received funds from oligarch Konstantin Nikolaev through Igor Pisarsky,...

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