Financial Crime Weekly Episode 288

Welcome to episode 288 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast. I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, on sanctions, the UK delists a Swiss entity following a UN Security Council decision, extends the Maritime Mutual general licence, and imposes new designations, while the US takes more action under Operation Economic Outcast. On fraud and money laundering prosecutions, the DoJ launches Phase Three of the Western Union victim compensation scheme, and announces the conviction of Jonathan Spalletta. There is also the guilty plea of Oleg Korniev for managing a cybercrime money mule network, and a fine for American Express over BSA/AML deficiencies. On bribery, corruption, and market abuse, GRECO outlines strategic priorities and closes Denmark's fourth-round evaluation, the Court of Appeal quashes more LIBOR and EURIBOR convictions, and BaFin fines Volkswagen AG for market disclosure breaches. Finally, Europol warns of quantum computing risks to cryptocurrency wallets and "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" data threats.

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.