The UK sanctioned crypto services Cryptomus, Heleket, and TokenSpot for their links to Russia’s sanctions evasion networks. Chainalysis examines their illicit connections.

How AI Assistance Could Affect SFO Disclosure Practices

How AI Assistance Could Affect SFO Disclosure Practices

By Paolo Manzo

We are seeking views on the whistleblowing framework and a proposed Serious Fraud Office financial incentives scheme for individuals who report economic crimes.

The Council has prolonged the application of the framework for restrictive measures against the proliferation and use of chemical weapons for five years, until 30 October 2031, and the validity of ind...

More than 1,800 days after an objection was submitted, auditors still can’t say whether the authority’s accounts were lawful

A trove of emails shows that Deloitte Cyprus helped firms beneficially owned by Roman Abramovich attempt to skirt tax and disclosure obligations by retroactively transferring assets to British Virgin ...

View our DOJ’s Fraud Division Memo Puts Tax Enforcement Front and Center: What Companies Across Industries Need to Know insight.

Growing ties between the Houthis and al-Shabaab could turn Red Sea instability into a more dangerous security threat for Africa.

A fake Haiti ship register has emerged as the latest flag of convenience for suspicious tanker operators, highlighting the growing spread of fraudulent registries supporting opaque trading activity across the Middle East

The latest version of the proposed Digital Omnibus Regulation that will amend the GDPR (Proposal 2025/0360) (the “Draft Regulation”), which was leaked in September 2026, has already attracted consider...

The European Data Protection Board (the “EDPB”) has published draft Guidelines 04/2026 on the application of the power to impose administrative fines in relation to other corrective powers under the G...

Irish Government publishes the National Cyber Security Strategy 2030. Find out more from Insights from Matheson

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Alongside company directors, people of significant control (PSCs) need to have their identity verified with Companies House. Here are the criteria to determine who is a PSC within your organisation.

Outdated tariff codes can make it harder for businesses to benefit from free trade agreements. This ICC policy paper sets out practical recommendations to keep rules of origin – the criteria used to d...

Under President Trump, the United States has acted decisively to defend U.S. sovereignty and U.S. citizens against the threat of the International Criminal Court (ICC).  To date, the United States has...

Moldova’s role in regional illicit flows is shaped by transit routes, corruption risks and the unfinished recovery from state capture.

The first Fentanyl Monitor examines enforcement trends, policy developments and illicit fentanyl market dynamics across North America.

The U.S. is revoking visas to highlight corruption, drug trafficking-related activities, and anti-democratic behavior. Will it work?

On July 24, 1987, the reflagged Kuwaiti tanker Bridgeton, steaming under U.S. escort in the first convoy of Operation Earnest Will, struck an Iranian mine.

Over the past 40 years, ideologically motivated violent extremist (IMVE) attacks have occurred more frequently and caused more deaths and injuries in Canada than any other form of terrorism. This arti...

Benjamin Maltby, lawyer and General Secretary of The Owners Club, offers a practical guidance on owners’ right not to be tracked through AIS

Why ownership structure and intended use must be settled before completion

\nWhat is a strategic project?\n\nStrategic projects are projects that make a significant contribution to the EU\'s security of supply of strategic raw materials by helping diversify sourcing away fro...

The Council extended EU restrictive measures in view of the situation in Nicaragua by one year, until 15 October 2027.

Today, the Council removed Panama and Viet Nam from the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes, bringing the total number of jurisdictions on the list to 8.

IntroductionOn 30 July 2026, the Gambling Commission (the “Commission”) published its latest risk assessment into money laundering and terrorist financing (the...

Latest HMCPSI report finds that the agency is struggling to understand status of privileged material.

For Russia’s wealthy elite, including sanctioned billionaires like Igor Kesaev, opaque “personal foundations” offer an increasingly popular shield for their assets — against Western sanctions and the ...

On October 5, 2026, Bakyt Sydykov, Special Representative of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic for Special Assignments, chaired a regular working meeting…

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today announced a cease-and-desist order and a $350 million civil money penalty against American Express National Bank, Sandy, Utah (bank), for defi...