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COVID-19 INSPIRES INNOVATION IN ONLINE REMOTE AML/CFT TRAINING
COVID-19 and the expansion of home-based working it has forged has posed significant challenges to AML/CFT training and mentoring. As a result, vendors, AML bodies and experts have been developing new services and strategies to ensure that AML officers keep their skills honed during the pandemic.…
COVID-19 HELPS ORGANISED CRIME EXPLOIT ITALY’S WEALTHY FOOD SECTOR
THE FOOD industry is one sector that has performed well during the Covid-19 crisis, but like others, it has become more vulnerable to crime during the pandemic. Brenda Dionisi and Keith Nuthall examine these commercial crime trends in Italy.
THE REPUTATION of Italy contains many remarkable feats – and amazing food is one of them.…
SOUTH AFRICAN DIGITAL TEXTILE SECTOR FIGHTS FOR LOCAL SALES, WITH COVID-19 BOOSTING COMPETITIVENESS AGAINST ASIAN FINISHERS
The South African digital printing sector has struggled over the past few years to compete with the lower prices of textile manufacturers from Asia, while the Covid-19 pandemic has hit the sector hard. But for the companies that have survived the disruption, business is getting back to normal, with the post-Covid 19 localisation trend of shorter supply chains giving orders a boost.…
COVID-19 SOFTENS BUSINESSES UP FOR MAFIA ML EXPLOITATION
The Covid-19 crisis has had many negative impacts, and one has been the undermining of legitimate businesses. In countries with strong organised crime traditions, this has meant more opportunities for money launderers to subvert hard-pressed entrepreneurs or take them over, to use their businesses as fronts for cleaning criminal proceeds. …
NANOCOATINGS OFFER SIGNIFICANT BENEFITS TO THE AVIATION AND SPACE SECTORS
From sustainability to flammability, anti-viral protection to anti-corrosion, the potential applications of nanocoatings in the aerospace industry are “nearly endless,” say researchers who have noticed a sharp uptick in their use. This is particularly in relation to space missions and technologies.…
SWITZERLAND PAINT AND COATING INDUSTRY’S QUALITY HELPS IT PUSH THROUGH COVID-19 EPIDEMIC
Switzerland may be a small country of 8.5 million people, with an area of 41,285 km², 60% of which is mountainous, but its paint and varnish industry is substantial and growing, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Of course, it helps that Switzerland is rich.…
ANNUAL EU CRIME REPORTS SHOW EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS STILL FAILING TO CRUSH ENDEMIC FRAUD
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) continues to struggle to clamp down on fraud within its revenue collection and spending programmes – making progress, but with major scams still emerging within the EU’s complex international decision-making systems.
In its latest annual ‘fight against fraud’ report (1) (2), covering 2019, the European Commission reports that 939 discovered irregularities were reported as fraudulent (8% of the number), involving EUR461.4 million in lost money (28% of that affected by irregularities).…
EU ROUND UP – EU TITANIUM DIOXIDE PAINT LABELLING RULE CHALLENGED AT EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE
A LEGAL challenge has been made at the European Court or Justice (ECJ) to a new European Union (EU) regulation that orders sellers of paints and coatings containing titanium dioxide (TO2) – an important whitener – to include health warning messages on packages.…
CROSS-BORDER POLICE COLLABORATION IS KEY TO CRACKING DOWN ON INTERNATIONAL DAIRY CRIME
Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal is one of the largest ever embezzlement and money laundering cases, with Malaysian courts considering how at least USD4.5 billion was stolen and then spent or laundered from Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). Former Prime Minister Najib Razak has now been convicted of charges associated with the scandal.…
ITALY PAINT INDUSTRY KEEPS POSITIVE AMID PANDEMIC GLOOM
ITALY’s paint industry is hopeful that the end of the country’s Covid-19 lockdown will herald a surge in business, interrupted by the pandemic. Gianni Martinetti, president of the Paints and Varnishes Group of AVISA, the adhesives and sealants, paints and varnishes and inks division of national chemicals industry association, Federchimica said: “The hope is that, after two very hard months of lockdown, we can start again with the same liveliness that was found in the first quarter of 2020.”…