UK offshore havens miss deadline for transparency plans

Reported by Rob Davies UK offshore havens have missed a deadline to publish their plans to improve corporate transparency, as MPs criticised the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in particular for launching a financial crime-fighting cartoon mascot before new legislation. Jurisdictions including the BVI and Bermuda pledged last year to approve laws allowing access to company ownership data to those […]

FinCEN Alert: Oil smuggling schemes on the U.S. border by Mexico-based cartels

Reported by FinCEN Original alert attached here: (Shortened version featured below) The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s (Treasury) Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), in coordination with Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), is issuing this Alert to […]

FinCEN Finds Cambodia-Based Huione Group to be of Primary Money Laundering Concern, Proposes a Rule to Combat Cyber Scams and Heists

Reported by FinCEN (Summarized version below) The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) designating the Huione Group, a Cambodia-based financial services conglomerate, as a primary money laundering concern under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act. This designation stems from FinCEN’s determination that the Huione Group has knowingly […]