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Weekly Roundup: Treasury Appoints FinCEN Chief, Celsius Founder Charged With Crypto Fraud, and More

Andrea Gacki, director of the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, was named the new head of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, replacing acting director Himamauli Das, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More Federal prosecutors in New York charged the founder and chief executive of the bankrupt Celsius cryptocurrency trading platform with wire fraud and other offenses for allegedly fraudulently inflating the value of his firm's digital token, Bloomberg reported. More and More The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority fined the now-defunct brokerage Bastion Capital London almost £2.5 million for compliance failings linked to its involvement in a major European tax fraud...

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