FENTANYL AND WAR SHAKE UP USA’S AML/CFT/CPF RISK ASSESSMENTFENTANYL AND WAR SHAKE UP USA’S AML/CFT/CPF RISK ASSESSMENT
February 18th, 2024
The scourge of the fentanyl trade and heightened international tensions caused by Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, Hamas’ attack on Israel and the resulting Israeli invasion of Gaza have shifted the USA’s assessment of its ML, TF and PF risks.
These conclusions have been written into the latest US treasury ‘National Risk Assessments [NRA] on Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Proliferation Financing’, released on Wednesday (Feb 7). They are the fourth USA NRA on ML and TF, and the third on PF, in the past 10 years.
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