Tuesday, August 15, 2017

REPORT DETAILS HOW RADICAL GROUPS EMPLOY CLEVER TECHNIQUES TO FOIL SOCIAL MEDIA INQUIRIES

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A report was released detailing how radical groups in America employed counter-surveillance techniques to prevent investigators using s...

GOVERNMENT RESPONDS TO TURKISH BANKER'S DEFENSIVE MOTIONS

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Counsel for Mehmet Atilla, the Turkish banker charged with assisting the Iranian oil sanctions evader, Reza Zarrab, has filed a number ...
Monday, August 14, 2017

SOCIAL MEDIA RESOURCES IMMEDIATELY ACCESSED AFTER CHARLOTTESVILLE DOMESTIC TERRORIST ATTACK

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Almost as soon as the smoke cleared from an intentional fatal automobile attack during last weekend's Charlottesville radical white ...

FOUR MONTHS FOR MONEY LAUNDRING IS NO DETERRENT

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A Massachusetts man, charged with Money Laundering Conspiracy, Douglas Mercier, was sentenced last Friday to four months' imprisonme...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

ARE YOUR BANK CLIENTS' "MADE IN CHINA" REALLY MADE IN NORTH KOREA ?

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Given the zero tolerance attitude that the United States is now taking towards North Korean sanctions, compliance officers at North Ame...

READ 2017 FCA ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING REPORT

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If you want to review the latest annual AML report of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA),  you may access the complete text here.

WHEN DOMINICA'S CORRUPT PRIME MINISTER SOLD OUT ITS PETROLEUM PATRIMONY

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What you see below, courtesy of WikiLeaks, is a declassified US State Department cable, detailing the events surrounding the sellout of ...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

SPAIN REFUSES TO PUNISH JUDGE PREJUDICED AGAINST FOREIGNERS, AND WHO VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS

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The Spanish magistrate judge notorious for violating the human rights of the Kokorev family, whom he has ordered held, on a bogus mater...
Friday, August 11, 2017

WAS MONFARED LAUNDERING MALAYSIAN DRUG PROFITS THROUGH OFAC-SANCTIONED CORPORATION IN DOMINICA ?

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What you are looking at above is an OFAC chart, published by the US Treasury, of the Karner drug trafficking network. Note that one of t...

WILL OFAC SANCTION CHINESE BANKS THAT FACILITATE NORTH KOREA ?

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If you are a compliance officer, at an international bank whose clients trade with customers who use those banks in north China known t...
Thursday, August 10, 2017

UN AMBASSADOR FROM DOMINICA ADMITS FATAL FLAW IN ALISON-MADUEKE DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT

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If you read my recent article entitled  Dominica's Application for a Diplomatic Passport: an Insult to International Diplomacy, and...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

RICARDO MARTINELLI TO BE TRANSFERRED TO FCI MIAMI

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Federal Correctional Institution, Miami   It is being widely reported in Panama that its fugitive ex-president Ricardo Martinelli, now ...

DISPUTE OVER CHINA CLOSING BANK ACCOUNTS OF IRANIANS

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Reports that major Chinese banks are closing personal accounts of Iranians appear to be in dispute. One source claims that it is due to ...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

HMRC PUBLISHES ADVISORY ON JURISDICTIONS REQUIRING ENHANCED DUE DILIGENCE

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Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs has issued an Advisory Notice on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing controls in Overseas ...

WHAT SHOULD BE IN YOUR TOOLBOX FOR ENHANCED DUE DILIGENCE INVESTIGATIONS

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If you are a compliance officer, many of what used to be routine due diligence inquiries have now, due to a number of emerging factors*...