Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Wednesday that Venezuelan funds controlled by the United States Treasury Department could be used to pay for coronavirus vaccines but that President Nicolas Maduro’s government is refusing to cooperate.
The government has not accepted an implementation plan laid out by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) that would enable Venezuela to join the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility (COVAX) programme, and has not fulfilled a prior deal regarding distribution of COVID-19 tests.
“The [problem] is not the funds, that’s the dictatorship’s propaganda to try to excuse itself and point fingers and confuse the whole world,” Guaido told a press conference.
Cllr. Tiawan S. Gongloe, President, Liberia National Bar Association
Weeks after both the Supreme Court of Liberia and the National Association of Trial Judges in Luberia claimed that there was no sufficient evidence to punish any of those named in the US Treasury Department’s report of corruption against some judges and Grand Cape Mount County Senator Cllr Varney Sherman, the Liberian National Bar Association (LNBA), has cautioned judicial actors and the Liberian Government not to take the issue lightly. The LNBA is the umbrella body for lawyers and judges in the country.
A release issued by the Supreme Court and the National Association of Trial Judges of Liberia earlier, challenged the Treasury Department to produce evidence in its possession based upon which the accusations against Cllr Sherman and the judges were obtained.
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On January 2, 2021, the National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”) became law following Congressional override of President Trump’s veto. A significant part of the NDAA is the inclusion of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), which greatly expands the obligations of companies to identify and disclose beneficial ownership information. The expanded obligations take meaningful steps toward eliminating anonymous shell companies as the money laundering method of choice for criminals and terrorists. These increased disclosure requirements will have an impact, however, on everyday businesses.
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South African regulators are seeking to exercise more control over cryptocurrency trading following the collapse of what was alleged to be the largest Ponzi scheme the country has ever seen.
Self-proclaimed Bitcoin (BTC) trading firm Mirror Trading International was placed in provisional liquidation in December 2020 as investors tried and failed to withdraw their funds. The firm claimed to have attracted over 260,000 memberships worldwide, handling a reported 23,000 Bitcoin a sum now worth in the region of $716 million.