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Julia Yansura

@jyansura.bsky.social
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Working to combat illicit finance and environmental crime at the FACT Coalition (views my own). Following Latin America, anti corruption, anti money laundering and financial inclusion.

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Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 09/12/2025
✍️ Spotlight’s Helen Taylor has teamed up with @jyansura.bsky.social of @factcoalition.bsky.social for this joint blog on why we urgently need to tackle the issue of illicit gold, a key means of criminals laundering their ill-gotten gains that has devastating impacts on people and the environment.
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UK illicit finance summit puts dirty gold in the spotlight – real reforms must follow - Spotlight on Corruption
Faced with such a complex issue, one simple yet meaningful reform that the UK should promote at the Summit is requiring international travellers to declare
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Dulce Guzmán @dulceguzman.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Great analysis from @factcoalition.bsky.social. The proposed remittance tax comes with several humanitarian, data security, and illicit finance problems. Check out this interesting perspective from @jyansura.bsky.social and @zorkamilin.bsky.social thefactcoalition.org/remittance-t...
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The “Big, Beautiful Bill” has a Big Illicit Finance Problem
A new tax on money sent from the U.S. to other countries by non-citizens will only serve to drive immigrants toward less secure, informal money transfer services, write FACT’s Julia Yansura and Zorka ...
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
“The pace of change and unraveling of a lot of the protections and safeguards related to dirty money coming into the United States has been pretty dizzying,” @ianpgary.bsky.social @factcoalition.bsky.social told the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/m...
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How to Hide a 350-Foot Megayacht
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
El oro ilegal se mezcle fácilmente con el legal mediante documentación falsa y empresas fantasma, expliqué a @bloombergenespanol.bsky.social en una reciente entrevista. .https://www.bloomberglinea.com/economia/oro-ilegal-priva-a-latinoamerica-de-obtener-mayores-beneficios-ante-los-precios-record/
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Oro ilegal priva a Latinoamérica de obtener mayores beneficios ante los precios récord
La mancha que deja el comercio ilegal del oro en la región la priva de obtener mejores beneficios del rally de los precios que está atravesando esta materia prima en la actualidad, llegando incluso a ...
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Illegal gold mining has quickly become of one of the largest illicit economies in the Americas. Where do the profits go - and who benefits? How are rising prices playing into the hands of organized crime? Join us May 14th to discuss these questions & explore policy solutions: tinyurl.com/ym7j2a8j
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The FACT Coalition @factcoalition.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
On May 14, FACT will be holding an event on illegal gold mining and illicit finance in the Western Hemisphere, moderated by @WillGFreeman, featuring remarks from two award-winning journalists Joseph Poliszuk and Arturo Torres, and FACT's @JYansura. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Grateful to have had the opportunity to attend the GI-TOC ECOSOLVE conference on environmental crime this week in Paris. In my presentation, I highlighted the importance of beneficial ownership data in preventing, detecting & investigating environmental crimes.
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The FACT Coalition @factcoalition.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Our program director for environmental crimes and illicit finance @jyansura.bsky.social represented us this week at the Security and Development Dialogue on Environmental Crime, hosted by the Global Initiative for Transnational Organized Crime and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.
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The FACT Coalition @factcoalition.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Our executive director @ianpgary.bsky.social is at the World Bank's Partnerships for Anticorruption Global Forum today and tomorrow to discuss the importance of AML policy in advancing the fight against corruption. We hope to see you there!
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Partnerships for Anticorruption Global Forum 2025
The World Bank Group’s Partnerships for Anticorruption Global Forum is a global platform that will focus on the importance of partnerships in collectively advancing the fight against corruption.
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The FACT Coalition @factcoalition.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
In the latest FACT Newsletter: - Experts, members of Congress, and law enforcement groups protest the Treasury's interim final rule - A House Financial Services hearing centers anonymous shell companies, and - A new blog from FACT's @jyansura.bsky.social
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Law Enforcement, Members of Congress Protest Gutting of Corporate Transparency Act: Just the FACTs 4/3/25
“Just the FACTs” is a round-up of news stories and information regarding efforts to combat corrupt financial practices, including offshore tax haven abuses, corporate secrecy, and money laundering thr...
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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Who Owns That Penthouse? Now No One Will Know.
The Trump administration just hobbled a federal crackdown on corporate secrecy, making it easier to launder money through real estate purchases.
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Mongabay Latam @mongabaylatam.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Además, ahonda sobre el rol de Estados Unidos en el blanqueo de los fondos provenientes de esta actividad ilícita, directamente relacionada con la violencia hacia poblaciones indígenas y la contaminación de la naturaleza.
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Fue un gran gusto compartir mi trabajo con @mongabaylatam.bsky.social y @emiliadelfino.bsky.social a través de esta entrevista. De parte de @factcoalition.bsky.social, estamos convencidos que una de las mejores formas de combatir la minería ilegal es atacando los incentivos financieros.
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Environmental Investigation Agency @eia-news.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
An investigation by EIA US has uncovered illegal logging, fraud and corruption in the Brazilian Amazon, tracing illicit timber from five logging sites in the state of Pará to markets in the EU and US. Read and download ‘Tricks, Traders and Trees’ at eia.org/report/trick... #Amazon #logging #forests
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ICIJ @icij.org · 02/04/2025
From the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: @warren.senate.gov and 18 Congressional Democrats sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday, expressing deep concern over the agency’s recent decision to suspend enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act.
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Warren, Waters, and Congressional Democrats Question Treasury Secretary on CTA Enforcement, Warn Bad Actors Will Exploit Financial System | United States Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
The Official website of The United States Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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Elizabeth Dickinson @dickinsonbeth.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
El jueves, tendremos @latam.crisisgroup.org el lujo de conversar con grandes expertos sobre un tema fundamental: que hacer con las economías criminales y sus impactos para el medio ambiente y la población. No se lo pierdes! 👇🐄🕊️
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Fue un gusto conversar con Eduardo Thomson de @bloomberg.com la semana pasada. Les comparto mi entrevista sobre minería ilegal y su vínculo con el lavado de activos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPGo...
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Terremoto en sudeste asiático; crimen organizado invade minería del oro | Daybreak América Latina
YouTube video by Bloomberg en Español
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"The increasing price of gold is driving profit for criminal groups," I told the BBC. "The best way to curb is problem is not by focusing on the mining site. Rather, we should be using financial strategies from the AML/CFT toolbox." www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...
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BBC Audio | World Business Report | Gold hits $3,000 per ounce
Gold soars to $3,000; Canada's new PM faces economic woes.
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"The recent move by Treasury is part of a larger pattern that we have been witnessing since the start of the new Administration, a pattern of assault on US laws and institutions designed to combat illicit finance, curtail corruption, & hold corporations accountable." ojo-publico.com/5545/us-trea...
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The US Treasury Department moves to weaken the law against money laundering
The U.S. Treasury Department proposes changes that would weaken the anti-money laundering law. Julia Yansura, program director for environmental crime and illicit finance at the Financial Accountabili...
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Ian Gary @ianpgary.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
NEW - Bipartisan Senate letter (Whitehouse/Grassley)calls on Treasury to fully implement Corporate Transparency Act "to prevent human trafficking, terrorist financing, border smuggling, drug distribution, and many other categories of criminal activity." www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Hablé con @elpais.com sobre el aumento del precio del oro, elpais.com/america-futu...
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Oro a cualquier costo: el aumento del precio del metal multiplica los crímenes ambientales
A finales de febrero, su valor incrementó 57% en relación con el mismo período del año anterior. Este escenario ha tentado aún más a quienes lo explotan ilegalmente
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
On Sunday, the Administration announced changes gutting a major US anti money laundering law. We should all be concerned. Official statement from @factcoalition.bsky.social here: thefactcoalition.org/treasury-reo...
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Treasury Reopens the Floodgates to Dirty Money in the U.S.
The Treasury Department’s decision to limit reporting requirements under the landmark Corporate Transparency Act to only foreign entities is a boon for fentanyl traffickers, domestic criminals, and ta...
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LatoyaAbulu @latoyaabulu.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Pause to USAID already having impacts on community conservation in the Amazon @aimeegabay.bsky.social reports for @mongabay.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/2025/02/paus...
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Pause to USAID already having impacts on community conservation in the Amazon
A wide range of sustainability, health and environmental programs in the Amazon Rainforest are at stake after the U.S. government announced a 90-day pause on all foreign aid funding, including from US...
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“If we have 50,000 people dying a year from fentanyl overdoses, how can we divert resources to address wildlife trafficking? But the truth is, the same groups involved in moving wildlife are moving contraband, moving people, moving weapons and moving money.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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In Suriname, a shadowy hunt for traffickers selling jaguar parts to China
Wildlife trafficking is the fourth-largest source of illicit revenue globally after drugs, human smuggling and counterfeit goods, according to Homeland Security Investigations.
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Environmental Investigation Agency US @eia-us.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Nuevos hallazgos: decenas de miles de cabezas de ganado todavía pastan en tres de los parques nacionales más deforestados de Colombia, mientras que cientos de miles han sido transportados desde veredas que se superponen total o parcialmente con estos parques.
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The FACT Coalition @factcoalition.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A federal judge has stayed the preliminary injunction in Smith v. Treasury, clearing the last legal roadblock preventing enforcement of the landmark Corporate Transparency Act. Read FACT's statement, with quotes from @transparencyusa.bsky.social, here: thefactcoalition.org/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Lifts Preliminary Injunction, Allowing Corporate Transparency Act Enforcement
FACT urges Treasury to resume enforcement of the landmark Corporate Transparency Act following a federal district judge’s stay of another nationwide preliminary injunction.
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"Existe una relación estrecha en toda la región andina entre narcotráfico y minería ilegal. El oro se volvió ideal para el lavado del dinero que obtienen por la venta de cocaína," les dije a @ojopublico.bsky.social @CodigoVidrio en esta entrevista. www.codigovidrio.com/code/la-mine...
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La minera Goldenminerals es el eslabón que revela cómo operan las narcomafias del oro en Ecuador - Código Vidrio
Cuatro ecuatorianos apresados en la operación Gran Fénix 52, por ser parte de una red que traficó 8 toneladas de cocaína a España, son dueños de una empresa minera en Camilo Ponce Enríquez, epicentro ...
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Cutting back global anti-corruption efforts is a bad thing, said LaPrevotte, a Republican. “We want to lift people up to a place that doesn’t include bribes, not bring ourselves down to a place where doing business abroad contributes to corruption of another country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
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Trump Curtails Anti-Corruption Efforts, as Aides Seek End to Eric Adams Case
The Trump administration is telling prosecutors and agents to care less on efforts to investigate foreign corruption, including a case against New York’s mayor.
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Transparency International U.S. @transparencyusa.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
🚨 #NEW "Attorney General Memorandum Redirects U.S. #AntiCorruption Efforts Raising Questions and Concerns" Read our recent Press Statement HERE ⤵️ us.transparency.org/news/attorne...
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Attorney General Memorandum Redirects U.S. Anti-Corruption Efforts Raising Questions and Concerns - Transparency International
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Last week @factcoalition.bsky.social hosted Duban Canal from the Amazon Alliance for Reducing the Impacts of Illegal Gold Mining, AARIMO. We discussed new trends in illegal mining, gold and mercury trafficking routes, convergence with other serious crimes, & impacts on communities & the environment.
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The FACT Coalition @factcoalition.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Happening Now: DOJ files for a stay in Smith v. Treasury, the last remaining case keeping Treasury from enforcing the landmark #CorporateTransparencyAct. Last month, the Supreme Court threw out a nationwide injunction in another CTA case. Per DOJ: "The same result is warranted here."
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It was great connecting with 50+ members and allies at our FACT Strategy Retreat. 2025 is full of challenges but we'll meet them together. We're fully committed, passionate about what we do, and thinking creatively about how to advance our work.
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Today, the US Supreme Court stayed a nationwide injunction against the landmark Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), paving the way for enforcement of the most consequential anti-money laundering law in a generation. Our reactions from @factcoalition.bsky.social thefactcoalition.org/supreme-cour...
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Supreme Court Allows Enforcement of Major Anti-Corruption Law to Resume
FACT applauds the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to stay a nationwide injunction against the landmark Corporate Transparency Act, paving the way for enforcement of the most consequential anti-money lau...
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Ian Gary @ianpgary.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The FACT Coalition staff shared views on the fight against dirty money and campaigns for tax justice across a wide range of media outlets in the last few weeks. Check it out! @zorkamilin.bsky.social @factcoalition.bsky.social thefactcoalition.org/just-the-fac...
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
“The US should work with partner countries to address the most common avenues of illicit finance that environmental criminals use to profit from the destruction of our ecosystems." Check out my new piece in @earthorg.bsky.social earth.org/environmenta...
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US Linked to Environmental Crimes in Amazon Region: Report
The US has been a safe haven for illicit financial flows from environmental crimes due to lax anti money laundering requirements
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Julia Yansura @jyansura.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Come work with us at @factcoalition.bsky.social! This Policy Fellowship is a great opportunity for current Master's degree students or recent grads based in the Washington, DC area. Spanish language proficiency is required. More details here thefactcoalition.org/about-us/car...
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