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Swiss Aid publishes study on the illegal trade of African gold
According to a new study, between 321 and 474 tons of artisanal gold are produced annually in Africa without being declared, and at least 435 tons of gold were smuggled from the African continent in 2022 alone.
GRECO publishes its third evaluation round second addendum to the second compliance report on Switzerland
Report deals with Incriminations (ETS 173 and 191, GPC 2) and Transparency of Party Funding.
OCCRP: Fishing boats and cargo ships: how Colombian cocaine travels the world
Official statistics on busts of drug shipments originating in Colombia — the world’s largest cocaine producer by far — are scattershot and hard to find. A leak of prosecutor’s office documents helped reporters fill in some gaps.
UNODC reports a record amount of methamphetamine seized in East and Southeast Asia as synthetic drug market expands and evolves
A new report, titled “Synthetic Drugs in East and Southeast Asia: latest developments and challenges 2024”, confirms that 190 tons of methamphetamine was seized in East and Southeast Asia in 2023 – a record level. After dropping slightly in 2022, seizures of methamphetamine rebounded in 2023 to the highest amount ever recorded for the region.
Spotlight on Corruption considers the implications of what it consider a ‘landmark appeal’ against the NCA
Spotlight on Corruption is intervening to support GLAN and WUC because this appeal also has very serious and wide-ranging implications for the UK’s regime for confiscating the proceeds of crime, whether from slave labour, corruption, or indeed environmental crime. If the decision handed down last year were to stand, it could severely undermine UK law enforcement’s ability to investigate and forfeit the proceeds of crime…
SEC charges Intercontinental Exchange and nine affiliates including the New York Stock Exchange failing to inform the commission of a cyber intrusion
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that the intercontinental exchange, Inc. agreed to pay a $10 million penalty to settle charges that it caused the failure of nine wholly-owned subsidiaries, including the New York Stock Exchange, to inform the SEC of a cyber intrusion as required by Regulation Systems Compliance and Integrity…
Labour outlines several measures that a Labour government would implement to curb corruption and kleptocracy both in the UK and globally
Labour’s proposed measures include broadening the registration requirements for UK trusts to prevent their exploitation for illicit purposes and enhancing transparency around trust ownership of UK property. Additionally, the party aims to strengthen the UK’s sanctions regime to target individuals and entities complicit in money laundering activities, with a particular focus on professionals such as lawyers and accountants…
Swissinfo Ch: Switzerland plans to introduce a flight passenger database from 2026 to collect and process personal data in a bid to combat terrorism and serious crime
Switzerland plans to introduce a flight passenger database from 2026 to collect and process personal data in a bid to combat terrorism and serious crime. The government has sent a related bill to parliament…
OFAC has imposed sanctions on a Russian institution and gold companies based in Nicaragua, aiming to undermine the Ortega-Murillo regime’s ability to exploit the sector and profit from corrupt operations
The Ortega-Murillo regime’s ability to manipulate the gold market and make money from corrupt practices, as well as its repression of the Nicaraguan people, are the targets of the Department of Treasury’s OFAC…
OCCRP: Kyiv Police uncovered a $1.7 million embezzlement scheme involving the sale of electricity at inflated prices to a department within the State Water Resources Agency
Investigators discovered that the director signed contracts in early 2022 obliging a department within the State Water Resources Agency to pay twice the normal price for electricity. The suspect is facing serious charges of “embezzlement of property through abuse of office,” a crime magnified under the current martial law circumstances…
US DoJ sentences ponzi schemer to over 14 years in prison for $11m fraud convictions
Pigida was informed by US District Judge during his sentencing hearing that he had misused the court’s trust by evading prosecution. Pigida’s fraud was characterized by the judge as a extensive, elaborate, complex scheme that caused his victims immense harm…
OCCRP reports that a former Afghan parliamentarian used a passport he obtained through Cyprus’ now defunct citizenship by investment program to build a sprawling business and real estate empire in Germany and Dubai
Ajmal Rahmani accumulated real estate in Germany between 2018 and 2022 valued at 197m. He purchased the properties through German companies registered under his Cyprus passport in addition to Cypriot holding companies. He and his father, Mir Rahman Rahmani, were sanctioned by the US Treasury for alleged corruption, which included manipulating the fuel market in Afghanistan to embezzle US funds…