A news release from US DoJ on 17 December announced that Jorge Navarro had received a sentence of 60 months’ imprisonment for his leading role in the felony drug misbranding and adulteration charges arising from an investigation of the abuse of animals through the use of performance enhancing drugs. It was furthered ordered that he pay $26,860,514 in restitution for the fraud perpetrated through his doping programme.
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On 17 December, the EU Sanctions blog reported that the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) had made the order for payment to the Iranian banks in connection with the forced closure of Future Bank in 2015 over allegations that it facilitated money laundering and the evasion of US and UN sanctions.
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On 17 December, OFAC announced that Ali DARASSA (who has several aliases) had been added to the SDN List because of his leadership of the CAR-based militia group, Union for Peace in the Central African Republic (UPC). UPC’s militants have killed, tortured, raped, and displaced thousands of people since 2014.
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The State Department has issued its annual report that US law requires the Secretary of State to provide the Congress by 30 April 30 each year. It is intended to be a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. As well as the region-based analysis, it includes chapters on state sponsors of terrorism; the global challenge of chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear terrorism; terrorist safe havens; Foreign Terrorist Organisations; and legislative requirements and key terms.
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On 15 December, Global Witness reported that the country’s natural resource wealth is proving to be an economic lifeline for the generals. The NGO reveals how the military and other armed actors profit from gemstones, including rubies, sapphires and other coloured stones; and a new investigation reveals for the first time in detail how Myanmar’s gemstone industry is just as problematic as the jade sector. It says that gemstone mining has boomed since the February coup, that thousands of informal miners have filled the void left by the end of official mining, and are being exploited by the military as well as non-state armed groups, and that many of the rubies end up in the multi-billion-dollar gemstone markets of Bangkok, Hong Kong, New York and London. It claims that companies worldwide are hiding behind the complexity of gemstone supply chains, which obscures the origins of stones sold on the global market – and that rubies sourced from Myanmar are being sold by multinational jewellery companies Graff, Van Cleef & Arpels and Pragnell, high-end auctions houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s, and mass market retailers Walmart and Intercolor.
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On 17 December, the BBC and others reported that HSBC has been fined £63.9 million by the FCA for “unacceptable failings” of its AML systems. It said weaknesses in HSBC’s financial crime safeguards had been highlighted several times before action was taken.
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On 17 December, the EU announced that the Whistleblower Protection Directive has entered into application. The new law guarantees a high level of protection for persons who report breaches of EU law. It provides for effective and widely available reporting channels and for robust protection of whistleblowers, working in both public and private sector across the EU.
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