Financial Crime Weekly Episode 178

Hello, and welcome to episode 178 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, we look at actions by OFAC targeting a narco-terrorist network and expanding sanctions against a cartel, including a "narco-rapper," alongside an OFSI license extension for payments to sanctioned banks. We also address money laundering failures by Paxos, Poland's limited progress in anti-corruption efforts, and a whistleblower's revelations about UK government-sanctioned bribery in arms deals. Furthermore, the episode outlines fraud cases, including confiscation orders against investment fraudsters in the UK, a guilty plea in a New Zealand Ponzi scheme, and a FinCEN summit aimed at tackling fraud in the digital assets ecosystem.

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