Financial Crime Weekly Episode 287

Welcome to episode 287 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast. I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, on sanctions, the UK FCDO makes vessel designations, and revokes restrictions against a former Syrian minister, while the US targets a $2 million France-based Hamas financing network, and delists 125 entities. On US fraud enforcement, there is a $65 million Brooklyn Medicaid kickback plea, a prison sentence in a $37 million fraud, and a Delaware bankruptcy fraud conviction, while in the UK, Report Fraud's national passkey campaign follows £6.3 million in account hacking losses. On money laundering prosecutions, authorities addressed a £30 million bulk cash smuggling ring operating between the UK and the UAE, and a $597,000 government impersonation courier scheme. Finally, a former TD Bank employee pleads guilty to accepting bribes for laundering, and there is the 10-nation "Operation KillSwitch" disruption of the KillSec ransomware network.

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.