The Obama administration's plan to increase annual appropriations for IRS enforcement efforts by more than $1 billion met criticism Tuesday from Republican members of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee.
The Internal Revenue Service will no longer move to quickly seize funds linked solely in suspicious activity reports to potential structuring of legally derived money, an agency leader said Sunday.
ACAMS moneylaundering.com spoke with the co-head of the United Kingdom's Serious Fraud Office's bribery and corruption unit, Ben Morgan, about his hopes of securing the U.K.'s first deferred prosecution agreement with a corporate.
The White House proposed Monday trimming the U.S. Treasury Department's budget by three percent for the coming fiscal year, including a seven percent drop in funding for the country's financial intelligence unit.
The U.S. Treasury Department's budget would see a four percent increase over last year's funding under a White House proposal scheduled to take effect in October.