Financial Crime Weekly Episode 278

Welcome to episode 278 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast. I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, on sanctions, the UK makes several administrative corrections, and there is a term of imprisonment in the US for an individual who smuggled semiconductors to Russia. On money laundering, there is a prison sentence for a money laundering conspiracy, and on bribery and corruption, the UK SFO settles the ENRC civil litigation. On fraud, there are convictions for a Danish researcher, and sentences for three Ethical Forestry Limited directors. On market abuse and regulatory enforcement, charges are brought in a pre-IPO scheme, and in the UK the FCA has proposed a ban and fine against a financial adviser. Finally, on cybercrime, an international public-private coalition has disrupted the two-decade-old Sality peer-to-peer botnet.

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

The photograph on the podcast cover art is by Sora Shimazaki at Pexels, and the stinger sample between each news section is ‘Ben Logo 1’ by BenKirb from Pixabay.