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AUSTRAC has called in auditors to assess Perth Mint’s compliance with counterterrorism and anti-money laundering laws after flagging “concerns”.

A seafood processing company located in China’s eastern province of Shandong, that supplies large food distributors and retailers in the U.S. and Canada, accepted workers from Xinjiang through government organized labor transfers as recently as February 2020, Kharon found.

The European Union early this week announced sanctions on a wide array of actors, ranging from military controlled companies in Myanmar to members of a family close to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and groups and individuals involved in terrorism.

The European Union on Friday sanctioned five members of the Malian transitional government, including Prime Minister Choguel Maïga, for obstructing the country’s path back to democracy.

A hacking group known in the private sector as MuddyWater was recently identified by the U.S. Cyber Command Cyber National Mission Force as a subordinate element of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).

The U.S. Treasury Department issued a USD 5.2 million penalty against a Hong Kong-based offshore trading and trade-finance firm after rogue employees had made U.S.-dollar payments to buy Iranian-origin high density polyethylene resin (HDPE) while hiding the conduct from their superiors, according to a settlement announced this week.

When U.S. federal prosecutors unsealed charges last year alleging a two-decade conspiracy to evade sanctions on Iran, authorities may have tapped into a larger illicit trading network than they publicly revealed, according to an investigation by Kharon.