Hello and welcome to episode 204 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast. I am Chris Kirkbride. This episode covers major global enforcement actions, including how the UK's NCA exposed a billion-dollar Russian money laundering network linked to a Kyrgyz bank purchase for the war effort. Concurrently, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Iran's shadow fleet financing its military and proxies, while Europol coordinated against sophisticated Russian sanctions evasion. Domestically, the UK's PSR highlighted the success of CoP and the mandatory APP reimbursement policy. The SFO also launched its first major crypto fraud probe into the $28 million Basis Markets collapse. Finally, we look at transnational crime fighting, including a Europol operation which dismantled a Balkan art trafficking network, seizing over 3,000 antiquities valued at more than €100 million.

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