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But even though the Lava Jato task force was officially disbanded in 2021, Pierpaolo Bottini, partner at São Paulo-based Bottini & Tamasauskas Advogados, and a former director of the Economic Criminal Law of the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences, said this abuse of crypto has been highlighted in cases he is defending. …

European textile companies are working to ensure that future water scarcity problems will not affect their operations, notably by cutting water consumption and installing high quality waste treatment facilities, European Union (EU) experts have told World Textile Information Network (WTiN).                               

According to EU statistical agency Eurostat’s regional yearbook 2022 (1), EU water scarcity – chiefly seen in southern Europe, with Portugal’s textile industry particularly affected – is primarily driven by climate change and excessive water consumption.…

How to launder a sack of ill-gotten cash is a question that does not just stretch the imaginations of law enforcers and AML officers, it can and does prompt useful assessments by professionals in other fields.

The question of how to launder USD1 million in dirty money is, for instance, a popular thread on the international online Q&A service Quora, with 84 answers.…

 
The European Union’s garment and textile industry pushed this Thursday, October 13, in Oporto, Portugal, for global rules to fight climate change to ensure fair competitiveness, with more international harmonisation of sustainable standards.
These wishes were expressed in the conference ‘Sustainability meets Competitiveness – how to square the circle?’,…

A growing number of successful good practice case studies in Africa are helping guide universities and colleges into how best to boost access to higher education across the continent. More than 80 million Africans have disabilities, according to the UN (1).…

The first woman to chair the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA), Gabriela Figueiredo Dias, of Portugal, intends to boost trust in accountants and auditors worldwide, whose profession has been undermined by public scandals, some highlighting conflicts of interest.

Speaking to Accounting & Business, she said another goal of her three-year term of office, which began on January 1, (2022), would be to formalise IESBA ethical standards for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting and help the sector deal with disruptive technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI).…

As the Italian economy recovers from the particularly hard two-year coronavirus pandemic, Italy’s paints and varnishes sector is among the few to have weathered the storm well. “Our sector has probably never seen such a jump in growth like that of the past two years,” said Gianni Martinetti, president of the Paints and Varnishes Group of AVISA (1), which is part of Italy’s national chemicals industry association, Federchimica.  …

The European Parliament has approved scrapping food and drink duties on imports into the European Union (EU) from Ukraine to support its economy as the country battles for independence against the continuing Russian invasion. With 3,811 civilians confirmed killed in the three-month-long attack by May 19, according to UN figures, the EU has ramped up its support for Ukraine.…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has undermined many political assumptions, including – of course – the right of countries to retain their borders and independence without being invaded. But one change encouraged by the war has been the increased desire of European countries to shake off dependence on Russian oil and gas – and that has increased support for nuclear power.…

Cigar sellers are exploring the potential offered by southern Africa’s two Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola and Mozambique, not only as sustainable growth markets, but also as African cigar production centres. Both countries have tobacco production and growing traditions that date back well into the Portuguese colonial times that ended with independence in 1975.…