Financial Crime Weekly Episode 122

Hello, and welcome to episode 122 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I’m Chris Kirkbride. On sanctions this week, in the US convictions for sanctions evasion, and further designations, while in Switzerland, there is further alignment between the country and the EU sanctions regime against Russia. On bribery and corruption, a report from the UN on the judicial system in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, new anti-fraud and corruption laws in Hungary, as well as further efforts in Ukraine to clean up its corruption image. The money laundering news comes in the form of a new paper from the FACT Coalition on the subject of Environmental crimes and illicit finance, while fraud news focuses on Covid-19 fraud both in the UK and US. In other financial crime news, the National Crime Agency (‘NCA’) has published its National Strategic Assessment 2024, and there is a brief round-up of some of this week’s cyber crime news.

A transcript of this podcast is available at www.crimes.financial, with links to the stories.