SANCTIONS HOLD THE AML LINE AGAINST CORRUPT VENEZUELAN OFFICIALS GRAFTING COUNTRY’S EXTREME CURRENCY CONTROLS
August 1st, 2018
AML compliance departments are having to take an increasingly close look at any transactions involving Venezuela, as its authoritarian government attracts increasingly large numbers of international sanctions.
The European Union (EU) in June sanctioned 11 senior Venezuelan officials following the May re-election of President Nicolas Maduro in polls that the EU said were “neither free nor fair and…lacked any credibility…”
The sanctions – see https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018D0901&from=EN – involved asset freezes ...
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