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FATF-APG finds Malaysia has strengthened its AML/CFT/CPF system with solid risk understanding, cooperation and legal frameworks, but still shows moderate effectiveness in key areas like prosecutions, enforcement, supervision and asset recovery despite notable progress
The report concludes that Malaysia has enhanced its anti-money-laundering, counter-terrorist-financing and counter-proliferation-financing framework with improved risk assessments, domestic coordination and international cooperation, reflecting substantial technical compliance with FATF standards. However, effectiveness remains moderate in critical outcomes such as translating investigations into prosecutions, proportional sanctions, risk-based supervision, and systematic asset recovery (outside major cases like 1MDB), indicating the need for further targeted reforms.
India’s Enforcement Directorate files a prosecution complaint under AML laws against 5 accused over a ₹104 crore cyber-fraud and ML racket involving fake investment schemes and digital extortion
ED’s complaint names Makbul Abdul Rehman Doctor, Kaashif Makbul Doctor, Mahesh Mafatlal Desai, Om Rajendra Pandya and Mitesh Gokulbhai Thakkar for defrauding victims nationwide through sophisticated cyberfraud schemes — including “digital arrest” scams, bogus forex/stock trading platforms and impersonation of law enforcement and judicial authorities — and laundering the proceeds through layered bank accounts and cryptocurrency. The case, based on an investigation initiated by the Surat Police’s Special Operations Group…
FATF-APG’s 2025 Mutual Evaluation Report on Malaysia commends its strengthened AML/CFT framework, while noting gaps in prosecutions, international cooperation, and preventive measures
The report acknowledges that Malaysia has significantly bolstered its anti-money-laundering, counter-terrorist-financing and counter-proliferation financing measures, with a comprehensive legal framework, enhanced supervision across financial and non-financial sectors, and robust domestic coordination mechanisms. However, it also highlights persistent challenges: translating investigations into prosecutions and convictions, strengthening international cooperation, especially mutual legal assistance for serious crime cases…
Hong Kong Govt consults on implementing the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework and updated CRS, to strengthen crypto-asset tax reporting and due diligence – proposals by 6 Feb 2026
The consultation paper proposes amendments to Hong Kong’s Inland Revenue Ordinance to introduce mandatory reporting, record-keeping requirements, enhanced penalties and registration obligations for financial institutions in line with the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) and updated Common Reporting Standard (CRS), reflecting the rapid growth of digital asset markets. The Government plans to complete these legislative changes in the coming year, with automatic exchange of crypto-asset tax information expected from 2028 and implementation of the amended CRS from 2029, while inviting public feedback on the proposals by February 6, 2026…
UNODC’s Myanmar Opium Survey 2025 reveals that opium poppy cultivation has surged to a decade-high, driven by conflict, economic hardship, and shifting global drug supply dynamics
The 2025 Myanmar Opium Survey 2025 finds that poppy cultivation increased by 17% year-on-year — from 45,200 to 53,100 hectares — marking the largest area under cultivation since 2015. Although yield per hectare fell due to instability, overall production edged up to about 1,010 metric tons, underscoring Myanmar’s continued status as the world’s primary source of illicit opium and raising serious concerns over renewed heroin supply to global markets…
FINTRAC publishes Operational Alert, Laundering the Proceeds of Online Child Sexual Exploitation, introducing new indicators to help businesses detect and report financial transactions linked to OCSE
By tracing financial flows, FINTRAC generates actionable intelligence that aids law enforcement in Canada and internationally to identify and target perpetrators. The Alert updates FINTRAC’s December 2020 strategic intelligence, reflecting new indicators based on analysis conducted with financial institutions, law enforcement, government agencies, and international FIUs…
AUSTRAC warns online payment platforms to tighten AML/CTF controls after uncovering transfers funding child sexual exploitation, urging firms to detect, report, and block high-risk activity
Austrac highlights serious compliance gaps such as poor transaction monitoring, underreporting of suspicious activity, and failure to identify high-risk behaviours, and urging firms to flag suspicious transactions promptly, close high-risk accounts, and ensure robust monitoring to help law enforcement disrupt global child-exploitation networks…
APGML’s follow-up report finds Myanmar has improved BO and trust rules but still falls short on key AML/CFT areas, including supervision, asset recovery, and tackling cross-border ML/TF networks
Myanmar’s limited progress results in two upgraded ratings—R.7 improves after new requirements to collect and verify beneficial-ownership information for legal persons, and R.25 improves following clearer obligations for trustees, nominee shareholders and company service providers—yet these reforms are narrow and largely technical. The jurisdiction nonetheless continues to exhibit extensive structural weaknesses, including minimal risk-based supervision of high-risk sectors, poor utilisation of financial intelligence…
APGML’s follow-up review of Nauru shows an improved supervisory framework, yet the Pacific island nation still faces gaps in beneficial-ownership transparency and risk-based supervision
Nauru’s sole re-rating upgrades Recommendation 29 to Compliant after the jurisdiction introduced a fully independent Financial Intelligence Unit with clear legal powers for analysis, dissemination and supervision, contributing to an overall tally of 38 Recommendations at Compliant or Largely Compliant. However, the report notes that two Recommendations remain Partially Compliant—relating mainly to transparency of legal persons and targeted financial sanctions—highlighting ongoing shortcomings in beneficial-ownership access, sanctions implementation and the broader application of risk-based supervisory measures.
APGML’s Mutual Evaluation follow-up report notes that despite stronger AML/CFT laws, Lao PDR still struggles with weak supervision, limited use of financial intelligence, and inadequate asset recovery
The country improves technical compliance significantly by re-rating eight recommendations—such as R.3 (criminalisation of money-laundering), R.5 (terrorist financing offence) and R.11/20 (financial intelligence and secrecy laws)—reflecting reforms to its AML/CFT law and expanded predicate-offence list. However, substantive deficiencies remain in effectiveness: the FATF identifies that Lao PDR must bolster its risk-based supervision of high-risk sectors (e.g., casinos, banks, special economic zones), enhance spontaneous…
APGML’s follow-up report highlights Vietnam has strengthened AML/CFT laws and supervision, including digital assets, but key gaps in sanctions, due diligence, and reporting leave ML/TF risks high
Vietnam’s review shows progress in three areas: a stronger national risk-assessment framework (R.1), improved implementation of targeted financial sanctions (R.6), and better customer-due-diligence and beneficial-ownership transparency (R.7). However, 21 Recommendations remain Partially Compliant and 3 Non-Compliant, underscoring the need for further reform to meet FATF standards…
TI’s BO Transparency report warns that despite initial reforms, MENA countries still struggle with opaque ownership, weak enforcement, and structures that fuel corruption and illicit finance
The report shows that while a majority of MENA jurisdictions now have legal definitions of “beneficial owner” and obligations for private-sector intermediaries to report BO data, enforcement remains uneven — with weak verification mechanisms, inconsistent record-keeping, and rare public access undermining the reforms’ effectiveness. It concludes that to translate legal frameworks into real-world transparency, countries must strengthen verification and maintenance of BO registries, ensure timely and reliable data collection…