Establish central beneficial ownership registries and outlaw bearer shares US senator tells FATF
The lead author of the US’ anti-money laundering (AML) act of 2020, senator Sheldon Whitehouse, is urging the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to strengthen its standards for countries to gather important data in the fight against money laundering. The FATF is currently updating its…
Alarm sounded over TBML and failures to conduct financial investigations in African environmental crimes
Tanzanian authorities failed to undertake financial investigations in a major case concerning wildlife poaching while illicit actors in Madagascar’s lucrative vanilla trade are turning to trade-based money laundering (TBML) says the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime (GITOC). No financial investigation was ever undertaken in…
