On 12 January, an article from Stewarts says that with the Account Freezing Orders regime, agencies can relatively easily obtain AFO while they undertake their investigations. The article looks at AFO in more detail in this article.
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A release on Mondo Visione on 13 January reported that only 20% of those working in the UK financial services profession are confident that their firms are committed to ethical finance policies and ESG principles when it comes to their lending, investing, wealth management and fund management activities, according to a new survey by the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI).
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On 13 January, OFAC advised that it had added a number of names to its SDN List, with amendments made to 7 existing entries. The purpose of the new entries is said to be to target 2 organisations, along with their leaders and subsidiaries, controlled by the Supreme Leader of Iran. It is said that these organisations, EIKO and AQR, control large swaths of the Iranian economy, including assets expropriated from political dissidents and religious minorities, to the benefit of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and senior Iranian government officials. Alongside the previously designated Bonyad Mostazafan, itself controlled by the Supreme Leader, and the IRGC-owned Khatam al-Anbiya, AQR and EIKO are said to control more than half of the Iranian economy.
https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/recent-actions/20210113
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1234
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On 13 january, US News reported that Estonia’s president has asked the leader of the opposition centre-right Reform Party, Kaja Kallas, to form the next government after Prime Minister Juri Ratas resigned over an inquiry into a property development. Ratas’ party was declared a suspect in a criminal investigation over a property development project in Tallinn.
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In December, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute published a Background Paper outlining European policies and practices in post-shipment inspections of exported military materiel. It says that post-shipment on-site inspections of exported military materiel enable an exporting country to verify that the materiel is still present in the country of destination and in the possession of the authorized end user. An increasing number of European countries are conducting on-site inspections, or are considering or planning to adopt such measures. A wide range of multilateral organizations already include the implementation of on-site inspections as part of their guidance documents. This SIPRI Background Paper provides an overview of the current state of implementation as regards on-site inspections of exported military materiel by different European countries. It highlights common sensitive issues related to the implementation of on-site inspections, maps the on-site inspection policies and practices of a selection of European countries, and provides recommendations for how the EU could play a role in promoting such practices.
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On 11 January, RPC published a podcast (with full transcript) containing an interview with Sam Dean, who heads HMRC’s campaign to raise awareness of the corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent tax evasion. What exactly does this mean, where your business may be at risk of liability and what you can do to prevent that from happening.
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The Egmont Group of FIU has issued a report saying that FIU must ramp up their efforts to combat wildlife crime through partnerships with supervisory bodies and law enforcement agencies. It calls on the member states to include wildlife crime in their national risk assessments, analyse suspicious transaction reports based on those findings and apply the techniques currently used by FIU. FIU should also consider the creation of wildlife crime task forces and working groups as well as the implementation of training programmes for law enforcement investigators and financial supervisors.
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