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Cato reveals the Criminal Code, Decentralized finance , Illicit Finance, and the Future of Financial Liberty
DeFi is accused of disproportionately aiding illicit finance, including terrorism funding and sanctions evasion, based on misrepresented evidence prompting restrictive policy proposals. How can we challenge these narratives and update AML frameworks for DeFi?
Business Times: Singapore enhances AML regulations for corporate service providers and companies mandating providers to arrange nominee directorships
Parliament passed two Bills amending laws governing CSPs and entities, following a debate where Second Finance Minister Indranee Rajah addressed queries from MPs, particularly regarding the new nominee directorship requirements. Under the new rules, only a corporate service provider or a sole proprietor of a registered CSP can arrange a nominee directorship with violators facing fines of up to US$10,000…
MAS updates its Terrorist Financing National Risk Assessment for Singapore
Update takes into account key developments since the last TF NRA in 2020, such as the evolving global and regional terrorism landscape, growth of the digital economy and financial services in Asia, and emerging TF risk typologies. Similar to 2020, the 2024 TF NRA has observed that the TF threat of raising and moving funds for terrorists and terrorism activities overseas remains pertinent in Singapore’s context. Self-radicalised individuals continue to pose the most salient TF threat to Singapore.
Reuters: Panama’s court has acquitted individuals accused of ML connected to the Panama Papers and “Operation Car Wash” scandals
Judge Marquinez also imposed fines on witnesses who failed to comply with summonses and noted that evidence from Mossack Fonseca’s servers lacked proper chain of custody. In relation to Operation Car Wash, a large-scale corruption investigation originating in Brazil, Marquinez concluded that it couldn’t be proven funds from illicit sources entered Panama to conceal crimes…
MAS sets out approach towards the recovery of illicit funds and assets from criminals, and the forfeiture of these assets or their return to victims
Between January 2019 and June 2024, Singapore seized S$6 bn linked to criminal and ML activities. S$416 mn has been returned to the victims, and S$1 bn has been forfeited to the State. The large bulk of the remainder is linked to ongoing investigations or court proceedings.
HKMA publishes reports on two frontier technologies, decentralised finance (DeFi) and the metaverse
Together these reports provide an in-depth analysis on these technologies and their uses in the financial services industry, as well as an overview of the regulatory landscape internationally and in Hong Kong.
Singapore publishes its updated Money Laundering National Risk Assessment
Singapore has been closely monitoring our ML risks including conducting thematic risks assessments in relation to abuse of legal persons, virtual assets, and environmental crime ML, to ensure that these risks are surfaced in a timely manner to facilitate targeted risk mitigation across relevant stakeholders…
Govt of Canada announces additional sanctions against Russian government for its responsibility in death of Alexei Navalny
Canada announced additional sanctions on 13 Russian individuals in relation to the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and Russia’s continued human rights abuses…
APG re-rates Vietnam on Recommendation 13 in first follow-up report to the MER
Recommendation 13 requires additional measures to be applied to cross-border correspondent banking relationships, in addition to performing the CDD and enhanced due diligence (EDD) measures in FATF Recommendation 10 for high risk customers. Vietnam is re-rated to partially compliant.
GCFFC releases Financial Scams Report: An Assessment of Scams in Australia, Hong Kong SAR & Singapore
There are more than 20 main types or variety of scam types identified in this report, with some hybrids & others involving additional forms of criminality, leading to financial losses, lifestyle changing consequences, & changes to life with 500,000 people estimated as modern slavery/human trafficking victims forced into criminality to support romance baiting and numerous suicides from scams such as sextortion…
APG reviews the progress made by Palau in fifth follow-up to the MER
Palau has been re-rated on R.22, R.23, R.28 and R.36, which they requested prior to follow-up. These Recommendations cover PEPs, DNFBPs and international instruments.
EPPO arrests ringleader, code-named Goliath of €85 million VAT fraud in Kenya
According to the investigation, the suspects established companies in Germany and other EU Member States, as well as in non-EU countries, in order to trade the goods through a fraudulent chain of missing traders – who would vanish without fulfilling their tax obligations. Other companies in the fraudulent chain would subsequently claim VAT reimbursements from the national tax authorities…