On 5 October, the Daily Mail reported that the IRS is investigating the CEO of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, 70. He has been in charge of day-to-day operations of the NRA since 1991.
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A news release from Europol on 5 October advised that its 2020 cybercrime report updates on the latest trends and the current impact of cybercrime within the EU and beyond.
https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/covid-19-sparks-upward-trend-in-cybercrime
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Volume 24 of this Update from the UN Office of Drugs and Crime says that the current opioid crisis is a far-reaching drug and public health policy issue affecting several geographical regions. Despite some progress, the crisis continues both to expand geographically and to deepen in complexity with the emergence of a new generation of new psychoactive substances (NPS) with opioid effects, including substances belonging to chemical structural classes which were not significantly present on illicit drug markets previously. This evolution signals the potential development of similar new substances which may exacerbate the already significant challenges.
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The UN Office on Drugs & Crime has produced this guide, which says that a corruption risk assessment is a systematic tool that can be used by public organisations to identify corruption vulnerabilities within their operations and devise efficient, cost-effective strategies to mitigate those vulnerabilities or risks. The goal of any risk assessment is to identify a realistic set of potential areas or scenarios that may be vulnerable to corruption, determine which should be prioritized, and develop and implement mitigation measures. It provides a long list of corruption-related irregularities.
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On 5 October, an article from Lock Lord LLP was concerned with the status and use of the “.eu” domain in or by the UK and UK businesses after the end of the Brexit transition period. During the transition period individuals, businesses and organisations in the UK can continue to register and renew .eu domains. However, after the end of the transition period, EURid has the authority to revoke .eu domains held by UK-based registrants who no longer fulfil the eligibility criteria. The EU authorities warned that it will make such domains inoperable from 1 January 2021, and also plans to revoke the domains of ineligible registrants from 1 January 2022.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/brexit-and-eu-domains-78443/
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On 5 October, a Notice from HM Treasury advised that 35 new names had been added to the UK Consolidated List, and that 5 existing entries had also been amended. This followed EU Regulation 2020/1387/EU of 2 October. A further Notice, also published on 5 October, advised a correction to 4 further entries.
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On 30 September, an article from Kingsley Napley said that the SFO has followed in the footsteps of the NCA and HMRC by using, for the first time, a listed asset order to recover £500,000 worth of jewellery which it was satisfied represented the proceeds of crime. They were introduced by the Criminal Finances Act 2017, and are a relatively new law enforcement tool targeting suspected illicit finances.
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On 1 October, Law 360 reported that Israel’s Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) has now said that data transfers from Israel to the US cannot rely on the Privacy Shield, which a European court ruled invalid in July. It says that since Israel’s regulation allow transfers to Europe and any jurisdiction “Europe deems adequate,” it has followed the EU lead in outlawing Privacy Shield transfers. This decision follows a similar one in Switzerland.
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The Civil Society Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa – Risk Bulletin #11 from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Crime includes an article saying that Madagascar is home to some of the world’s rarest tortoise species, which in recent years have fetched enormous prices on international black markets. It also boasts a booming market for illegal cannabis, both for domestic consumption and for export to other Indian Ocean island states. Recent research into both has found them to rely on extensive networks of corrupt officials to facilitate trafficking flows. This drives local level corruption in source regions for cannabis and tortoises, as well as in key transit points on trafficking routes, which may overlap with the routes of other illicit flows.
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