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Of course, it is not doing this by increasing policing and the number of suspicious transaction reports, but by liberalising what is now a criminal activity, the growing, processing, sale and consumption of cannabis for recreation.

By doing so, it plans to be the first G20 country to legalise and regulate the recreational use of cannabis nationwide by July 2018.…

THE EUROPEAN Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has warned of the major impact on British meat and livestock industry-related chemical manufacturers and their trading partners in Europe, should the UK push ahead with quitting the European Union (EU) as planned, on March 29, 2019.…

THE RUSSIAN government has expanded the range of meat and livestock imports that it is blocking from the USA and the European Union (EU) and other associated countries who have been imposing sanctions on Moscow over its annexation of the Crimea and support for Ukraine separatists.…

The Russian government is to postpone implementing plans to consolidate Moscow airports into a single aviation hub under a single owner, hoping that the hands-off approach will encourage private investments in the country’s domestic airport industry. 

The Kremlin had earlier been vocal in calling for a united ownership of Moscow’s four airports, but the move has been resisted.…

WITH the introduction of Bill C-45 into the Canadian House of Commons earlier this year, and its securing a second reading vote in June (see https://openparliament.ca/bills/42-1/C-45/), Canada’s government has moved closer to removing millions of dollars of dirty money from its economy.…

THE EUROPEAN Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has warned of the major impact on British minerals sector chemical suppliers and their trading partners in Europe, should the UK push ahead with quitting the European Union (EU) as planned, on March 29, 2019.

It has released a database seeking to advise chemical producers of how their legal obligations will change.…

PANAMA has been reforming its anti-money laundering (AML) regulations at a rapid rate as it tries to change perceptions of the country as a hub of money laundering and tax evasion. However, with serious loopholes remaining and grave doubts over its lack of investigative capacity, it remains some way from shedding its unwanted reputation.…

MALAYSIA is making progress in combating money laundering but political interference is still a problem in implementing policies and enforcing laws, experts have told Money Laundering Bulletin.

A dynamic upper middle-income country (USD9,850 per head gross national income in 2016, says the Word Bank), some of Malaysia’s ML and TF [terrorist financing] risks derive from its geographic position.…

MYANMAR has made impressive progress towards building a system meeting international standards to fight money laundering and terrorist financing. But huge swathes of the economy still lie outside regulatory control, and rapid modernisation presents the authorities with fresh challenges.

The country’s ethnic and political fragmentation, with 14 states and regions with extensive powers, and its location in the opium-producing ‘Golden Triangle’ region, including Thailand and Laos, make it particularly vulnerable to the illicit drug trade and its associated dirty money flows.…

NON-governmental organisations (NGO), aid agencies and charities are under increased pressure to abide by international and domestic anti-money laundering and terrorist finance regulations, such as those imposed by the UK, US and European Union (EU), including international sanctions. But it can be tough for NGOs to comply with such rules when operating in countries where there is civil conflict or civil war.…