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COVID-19 DISRUPTS ANTICIPATED STEADY GROWTH IN 2020 WITHIN LATIN AMERICA BEAUTY SECTOR



THE COVID-19 crisis has severely depressed sales of personal care products within Latin America and it is unclear when the market will pick up.

In Argentina, for example, a coronavirus-induced lockdown has pushed the economy deeper into recession, slashing sales of most unessential beauty and personal care products.…

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DARK WEB BECOMES MORE ACCESSIBLE, BUT ITS CRIME RISKS TO MAJOR BUSINESS ARE NOT GOING AWAY



ACCESSING the dark web once demanded some computing expertise. But dark web search engines and browsers continue being developed, guiding potential users to this encrypted corner of the web where commercial criminals ply their wares and illicit businesses avoid taxes. How should legitimate companies react?…

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HUNGARY REMAINS STRONG MARKET FOR TOBACCO WITHIN EUROPE, AS GOVERNMENT TARGETS SMUGGLERS WITH ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS



HUNGARY continues to be an attractive market for tobacco majors, with its populist government seemingly determined to fight the European Union (EU) for the right to keep excise duties below EU mandated  minimums, and the fact that, according to the OECD Country Health Profile 2019 official data (https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/hungary-country-health-profile-2019_4b7ba48c-en#page1

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NORTH AFRICA’S PAINT AND COATINGS INDUSTRIES HAVE VARIED LATENT STRENGTHS AS THEY FACE COVID-19 CRISIS



Paint and coating manufacturers and retailers in North Africa have been struggling with the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus, just as have their counterparts in other regions, however some markets and industries in the region seem better placed to cope with the pandemic’s economic impact than others.…

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UNMASKING THE DARK WEB – EASY TO ACCESS; TOUGH TO NEGOTIATE RISK; AND A HONEY PIT FOR FRAUD INVESTIGATORS



WANT to check the dark web for illicit services? Search engines accessible from the public web offer links to the dark web. One example is Finland-based Ahmia (https://ahmia.fi/), which yields interesting results from searches such as https://ahmia.fi/search/?q=hacking. A more recent variant that has attracted attention from the IT security press is Kilos – http://dnmugu4755642434.onion…

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TOP 10 MONEY LAUNDERING CASES



  • 1MDB SCANDAL IN MALAYSIA SEES USD BILLIONS STOLEN AND HIDDEN

 

Malaysia 1MDB scandal is one of the largest money laundering cases ever, worldwide, with Malaysian courts considering charges over how at least USD4.5 billion was stolen and then spent or laundered from Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad by former Prime Minister Najib Razak and his associates.…

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EU MEMBER STATES HAVE FAILED TO COMPLY WITH 5AMLD ON CREATING OPEN UBO REGISTERS



 

Only five European Union (EU) member states out of the current 27 have fully and properly complied with a requirement to set up public ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) registers by January 10 (2020) under the fifth anti-money laundering directive (5AMLD), according to research by campaign group Global Witness.…

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EUROPEAN AUTOMAKERS FACING COUNTDOWN TO DEADLINE ON INSTALLINBG NEW SAFETY FEATURES ON VEHICLES



AUTO manufacturers in Europe are facing a countdown to new European Union (EU) type approval rules, forcing them to install new safety technology on their vehicles if they want to secure permission to sell these autos in the EU and get them registered.…

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EU MINISTERS AGREE STRATEGY TO FIGHT FOOD FRAUD



THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has called on EU member states and other EU institutions to work harder to fight the scourge of food fraud, which can damage the commercial health of legitimate manufacturers and risk consumer health. In a detailed policy statement (called ‘council conclusions’ in EU jargon), ministers said an EU “legal definition of food fraud” should be created that would underpin future regulatory actions fighting such wrongdoing, which can include deliberate mislabelling and the use of illicit ingredients.…

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KEEPING DAIRY SUSTAINABLE AND PROFITABLE ARE INDUSTRY’S BIG TWIN CHALLENGES, SAYS COPA-COGECA HEAD



SHOWING consumers that dairy farming is sustainable, while surviving the less than favourable economic situation which all agriculture faces today, are the industry’s biggest challenges for 2020 and beyond, Pekka Pesonen, secretary general of European farming organisation Copa-Cogeca, has told Dairy Industries International.…

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