A Detroit resident was sentenced after secretly sending cryptocurrency to ISIS, using encrypted wallets and privacy tools to hide his transfers. The case revealed how small digital payments can support extremist travel plans and expose serious AML blind spots.

Vietnam FATF compliance is improving, yet critical gaps in sanctions, suspicious transaction reporting and the money laundering offence continue to expose the financial system to significant risk.

Regulators filed a disciplinary complaint after illegal bookmaker Mathew Bowyer operated inside Caesars Palace, prompting a proposed seven point eight million dollar settlement requiring stronger anti money laundering controls and new compliance conditions.

FATF mutual evaluation procedures in the fourth and fifth rounds now link MERs, KRA Roadmaps, follow up and ICRG review into a single pressure cycle that reshapes how AML practitioners plan controls.

A US DOJ indictment describes how Guanhua Su allegedly created and controlled a network of sham investment adviser entities, using false filings and concealed ownership to promote a NASDAQ-listed stock while foreign accounts sold large positions before its price collapsed.