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• Anti-Money Laundering for Crime and Terror

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Michael O’Connor, President of IronClad Consulting Historically, to facilitate money laundering criminals opened a legitimate business as a cover, and then used the business account to deposit and legitimize large sums of money. Large deposits into accounts were routinely overlooked by banking ...
  3 days ago

• Last Year U.S. Government Froze $2 Billion Belonging to the Iranian Regime; House May New Pass Sanctions Bill Next Week

  
  Jason Poblete — Authority: 408
  According to the Wall Street Journal, “[m]ore than $2 billion allegedly held on behalf of Iran in Citigroup Inc. accounts were secretly ordered frozen last year by a federal court in Manhattan, in what appears to be the biggest seizure of Iranian assets abroad since the 1979 Islamic revolution. ”  Read the ...
  1 week ago

• Conducting Export Controls and Economic Sanctions Investigations in an Aggressive Enforcement Environment

  
  Corporate Compliance Insights — Authority: 126
  This article, by three authors from Steptoe & Johnson, presents an overview of some of the particular issues and challenges that companies may face in conducting internal investigations in the area of export controls and economic sanctions compliance. (This is only a summary of the article. Click on the headline ...
  1 week ago

• Cuba (Semi-)Libre!

  
  CommLawBlog — Authority: 419
  Treasury and Commerce Departments relax Cuba rules for telecommunications providers, but FCC not yet on board Mojitos, plantains and panatelas, here we come! Cuba has been re-opened for telecommunications transactions with U.S. companies . . . at least as far as two important agencies are concerned. Back in ...
  1 week ago

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