Essential reading for understanding the current predicament No 10 is in, and the mess that is Keir Starmer's premiership more generally

New investigation: Kyrrex, a virtual assets service provider based in Malta, has grabbed the attention of European law enforcement agencies amid allegations it is a frequent destination for funds derived from #crypto investment #scams.
Free to read: www.moneylaundering.com/news/court-f...

New: The alleged mastermind of a £5 billion investment fraud in China pleaded guilty to money laundering in London on Monday in a case marked by Britain’s largest-ever seizure of crypto. But Qian's victims face an uphill struggle to recover their losses.
www.moneylaundering.com/news/alleged...

NEWS: The U.K. government wants to set up a new anti-money laundering supervisor for legal and accounting firms, sources briefed on the plans have told me.

Full story (£): www.moneylaundering.com/news/exclusi...

New: The UK government unveiled nine threats that will inform national anti-money laundering priorities in both the public and private sectors in the coming years
www.moneylaundering.com/news/britain...

Adham Al-Ajla, a father-of-three from Gaza City, describes his ordeal trying to get food for his family from a GHF food site.

Imagine.

In the London Review of Books, Alex de Waal, director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University, compares Israel’s tactical use of starvation in Gaza to “colonial counterinsurgency", as practiced by Britain in Malaya in the 1950s.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

SCOOP: The head of the EU's new Anti-Money Laundering Authority told me that her agency should directly supervise not only banks, but also other types of financial institutions to have the greatest in raising #AML compliance standards throughout the bloc www.moneylaundering.com/news/exclusi...

Trump has announced that the US gov will not enforce the Corporate Transparency Act, which obliges millions of business entities to disclose the identities of their true owners.

FATF is due to evaluate the US' AML regime next year, and assessors will be watching closely...

In one of her first official acts, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has scrapped the Justice Department’s Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, a federal effort to seize and repatriate the proceeds of foreign corruption, @acamsmldc.bsky.social has confirmed.
www.moneylaundering.com/news/bondi-s...

"Audacious"

New: The new President of the Financial Action Task Force discusses her priorities, the next round of mutual evaluations, and more, in a recent @acamsmldc.bsky.social interview (free to read): www.moneylaundering.com/news/fatfs-n...