by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 30, 2020 | Anti-Corruption, Europe |
President Zelenskyy heads to Brussels next week for the twenty-second annual EU-Ukraine Summit with bilateral ties at their most strained since the signing of a landmark Association Agreement in 2014. The relationship between Ukraine and the European Union has become...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 30, 2020 | Cyber Risk, Europe |
Hackers have penetrated the computer systems of the UK’s foreign ministry and taken hundreds of files detailing the country’s controversial propaganda programmes in war-torn Syria. In a security breach of enormous proportions, the hackers appear to have deliberately...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 30, 2020 | Europe, Middle East |
Britain is to hand back an ancient Sumerian plaque to Iraq after it was looted and smuggled out of the country and offered for auction. The artefact was seized by the Metropolitan Police after being tipped off by the British Museum. The ancient item dates back around...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 30, 2020 | Anti- Money Laundering, Europe |
The European Union, in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), is launching a new project entitled “Building Libya’s National Capacity to Prevent and...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 30, 2020 | Europe, Governance and Ethics, North America |
When news broke about Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) being sold to an investor in the United States, the reaction among many of its 5.4 million member-owners was surprise, anger and disappointment. More than 130,000 members have so far signed a petition to reverse the...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 29, 2020 | Anti-Corruption, Europe |
A coalition of international whistleblower advocacy groups has filed a public comment (link?) with Latvia’s government, providing suggestions for strengthening the country’s first whistleblower law passed in 2019. The coalition, consisting of the National...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 29, 2020 | Anti-Corruption, Europe |
In an explosive investigative report by Buzzfeed News, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and other news organizations, it was revealed that $2 trillion of questionable transactions were laundered through the largest most prominent banks in the...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 29, 2020 | Europe, Governance and Ethics |
To families running their own businesses, here’s something to think about: Do you make decisions and solve problems together? Are your lines of communication always open? According to a group of family business advisors from here and abroad, asking these questions is...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 29, 2020 | Europe, Governance and Ethics |
In the last five years, there has been a revolution in corporate governance in Ukraine. Starting with establishment of Supervisory boards in state – owned enterprises and ending with huge interest from private companies and all business owners; corporate governance...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 29, 2020 | Anti- Money Laundering, Europe |
The European Banking Authority has called for the creation of a single body to oversee the European Union’s anti-money laundering and counter the financing of terrorism efforts. The EBA also calls for the EU to increase its ability to regulate member states’ AML/CFT...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 29, 2020 | Cyber Risk, Europe |
French container shipping line CMA CGM has confirmed it is the latest victim of a cyber attack, after its website and some those of its subsidiaries went down over the weekend. However, the group’s corporate website, cmacgm-group.com, was working and carried a message...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 29, 2020 | Cyber Risk, Europe |
Scotland’s national police service said the strategy, Keeping people safe in the digital world, which it will formally present on Wednesday 30 September, “recognises the need to provide reassurance, education and enforcement in public, private and digital spaces as...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 28, 2020 | Anti-Corruption, Europe |
Refusing to self-isolate when told to is now illegal in England from Monday, with fines of up to £10,000. Anyone who tests positive for Covid-19, or has been told they have been in contact with someone who has, now has a legal duty to quarantine. It comes as a study...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 28, 2020 | Europe, North America |
On September 24, a bipartisan group of US senators proposed sanctions against Russian officials over the alleged poisoning of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny in Siberia recently. A targeted bill titled Holding Russia Accountable for Malign Activities Act of...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 28, 2020 | Anti- Money Laundering, Europe |
From the EU’s war on encryption to Facebook’s threat to pull out of Europe, here are the key developments from this week. The EU is set to declare war on encryption The EU is set to declare war on encryption with plans to allow law enforcement officials “targeted...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 28, 2020 | Europe, Governance and Ethics |
The ink on a landmark EU agreement to establish a €750bn recovery fund is barely dry. Many of the details are still to be worked out. Member states are at loggerheads over safeguards to ensure governments spend the money well and protect the rule of law. The European...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 28, 2020 | Anti- Money Laundering, Europe |
Connecting the databases of regulators, law enforcement and banks, and automatically blocking certain transactions, could be a way out of a banking catch-22 by enabling them to react more quickly. But the complex nature of stopping money laundering makes the tech...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 28, 2020 | Anti- Money Laundering, Europe |
Governments and banks around the world are doing little to tackle tax abuses, money laundering and corruption in a global financial system that perpetuates inequality and condemns people to endemic poverty, a high-level United Nations panel concluded on Thursday. The...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 28, 2020 | Anti- Money Laundering, Europe |
Shares of Europe’s top banks dropped on Monday, after the publication of reports alleging they kept doing business with customers they suspected of money laundering and other wrongdoing. The report, led by BuzzFeed News and including other media outlets around the...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 28, 2020 | Cyber Risk, Europe, Latin America |
Recently, most banks restricted their ATMs, cards and online transactions and strengthened their security measures after the Bangladesh Bank (BB) had alerted banks about a cyber hacking risk Most banks in the country have no updates on new strategies about cyber...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 28, 2020 | Europe, Middle East, Security Risks |
The United Nations has condemned clashes between two armed groups in a residential suburb of the Libyan capital and the use of heavy weapons. The UNSMIL, the world body’s support mission in Libya, in a statement late on Friday expressed “great concern” over the...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 28, 2020 | Asia, Europe, Security Risks |
Counterfeit goods are fakes or unauthorised replicas of a real product. Counterfeits tend to imitate something authentic to trick consumers who trust brands and logos when deciding to purchase a product. Sometimes even local businesses may be tricked by their...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 27, 2020 | Anti- Money Laundering, Europe |
The European Banking Authority has called for the creation of a single body to oversee the European Union’s anti-money laundering and counter the financing of terrorism efforts. The EBA also calls for the EU to increase its ability to regulate member states’ AML/CFT...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 26, 2020 | Anti-Corruption, Europe |
European Union members must adopt the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive into national law by 2021. While that’s good news for Europe’s people, Transparency International (TI) chapters know from long experience that strong laws alone can’t guarantee comprehensive...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 26, 2020 | Anti- Money Laundering, Europe |
Governments and banks around the world are doing little to tackle tax abuses, money laundering and corruption in a global financial system that perpetuates inequality and condemns people to endemic poverty, a high-level United Nations panel concluded on Thursday. The...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 26, 2020 | Cyber Risk, Europe |
Ukrainian cyber experts have found out how hackers were able to attack the website of the National Police. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. It is known that the attackers gained access to the police website due to...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 26, 2020 | Europe, Governance and Ethics, North America |
The creation of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly was dicsussed at the virtual UN75 Global Governance Forum that was held from 16-18 September 2020 on the occasion of the opening of the 75th General Assembly of the United Nations (UN). Organized by the Stimson...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 26, 2020 | Europe, Security Risks |
Roughly 400 meters from the perimeter of the European School of Munich, through a two-sided road paved with trees on either side, lay the Therese-Giehse-Allee metro station – the place where, on October 18, 2019, 16-year-old Daniel (an alias), having just exited the...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 26, 2020 | Europe, Governance and Ethics |
A pandemic caused by a newly discovered coronavirus (SARS‐CoV‐2) is raising dilemmas worldwide in relation to health‐resource limitations. To address the possible shortage of acute medical‐care capacity, national and international medical societies have drawn up...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 25, 2020 | Asia, Europe |
The Tokyo Olympics, postponed to next summer because of the Covid-19 pandemic, are facing renewed scrutiny over allegations that the city’s bid to host the games was secured by millions of dollars in bribes laundered through the international banking system. A...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 25, 2020 | Cyber Risk, Europe |
German police have launched a homicide investigation after a woman died during a cyber-attack on a hospital. Hackers disabled computer systems at Düsseldorf University Hospital and the patient died while doctors attempted to transfer her to another hospital. Cologne...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 25, 2020 | Europe, Security Risks |
Most UK firms are set to increase digital adoption after admitting that the cloud saved their business from collapse during the early months of the COVID-19 crisis, but security remains a persistent challenge, according to new research. Identity management vendor...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 24, 2020 | Africa, Anti- Money Laundering, Europe |
The Estonian banker was frantic: A whistleblower inside the bank suspected nine anonymous companies — all registered in the United Kingdom — of serious financial crimes and was threatening to go to authorities. “The whistleblower demands ALL OF THESE CLIENTS …...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 24, 2020 | Anti- Money Laundering, Europe |
Police in Malta have arrested the country’s former top government adviser, Keith Schembri, and his auditor, Brian Tonna, following an inquiry into alleged kickbacks from passport sales to wealthy Russians, according to local newspaper reports. Their arrests in the...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 24, 2020 | Cyber Risk, Europe |
In particular, a fake report on the death of three soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was posted on the Lviv region police’s website. It is worth noting the Rapid Trident 2020 multinational military drills are currently taking place in Lviv region. Also,...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 24, 2020 | Europe, Security Risks |
Ransomware, insecure internet-facing systems and attacks against cloud-based services are among the top threats facing industry this year, according to new and recent threat intelligence reporting. The Q2 threat report released today by Rapid7 and detailing the latest...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 24, 2020 | Europe, Latin America, Security Risks |
Almost two-thirds of information security professionals believe that cyberwarfare is a threat to their organisation as nation-state-backed cyberattacks become more common and larger in scale – and the concerns are even higher for chief information security officers,...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 23, 2020 | Anti-Corruption, Europe |
HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, had just been caught allowing a network of drug kingpins, including the notorious Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, to launder more than $880 million through its accounts. And it had brazenly done business in off-limits countries such as Sudan...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 23, 2020 | Anti- Money Laundering, Asia, Europe |
A mailbox address in Belfast was used by one of the account holders in a Russian money-laundering network that processed hundreds of millions of US dollars, according to a leaked report seen by The Irish Times. The report, filed by Standard Chartered Bank of New York...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 23, 2020 | Africa, Anti- Money Laundering, Europe |
Football clubs will have to step up internal controls amid growing attention to criminal activity in sports by anti-money laundering agencies. The Malta Football Association is working on a framework to introduce more accountability and corporate oversight in top-tier...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 23, 2020 | Europe, Security Risks |
The CEO of British technology company VST Enterprises Ltd (VSTE) has warned the UK Government of potential serious flaws in the security of personal data used in the contact tracing app announced by Secretary of State for Health Matt Hancock. Louis-James Davis has...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 23, 2020 | Europe, Security Risks |
A senior Al Qaeda-linked leader who played chess during deradicalisation sessions has failed in his legal bid to stop attending a UK counterterrorism course. The extremist, referred to in court papers as QX, had taken his case to London’s High Court, claiming it was...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 22, 2020 | Anti-Corruption, Europe |
In a bit of high-tech saber-rattling, Facebook is threatening to pull the plug on its social media platform in the European Union if a controversial decision by Irish regulators is allowed to stand. Yvonne Cunnane, Facebook Ireland’s head of data protection and...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 22, 2020 | Europe, Governance and Ethics |
Camosy: One the frustrations of some of us who do bioethics have had in recent years comes from the marginalization of metaphysical questions. Can you unpack that frustration for a lay audience? What is metaphysics and why should it matter for those who care about...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 22, 2020 | Europe, Governance and Ethics |
Then everything changed. No matter what intelligent automation governance model you built, you have had to amend and refine that model as we continue in a pandemic inspired global corporate enterprise reality. Now with organizations grappling with how to ‘return’ to...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 22, 2020 | Anti- Money Laundering, Europe |
Shares of Europe’s top banks dropped on Monday, after the publication of reports alleging they kept doing business with customers they suspected of money laundering and other wrongdoing. The report, led by BuzzFeed News and including other media outlets around the...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 22, 2020 | Anti- Money Laundering, Europe |
Germany’s finance ministry said on Monday that a slew of news reports about money laundering among global banks including Deutsche Bank did not appear to contain revelations which were unknown. “To the best of our knowledge, the cases with a German...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 22, 2020 | Europe, Security Risks |
Ransomware attacks are getting more aggressive according to a senior figure at Europe’s law enforcement agency, but there are simple steps which organisations can follow to protect themselves – and their employees – from falling victim to attacks....
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 22, 2020 | Europe, Security Risks |
In early August, Serb Republic Interior Minister Dragan Lukac said: “Each and every terrorist act committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina was carried out by Wahhabis. Almost all terrorist acts committed on European soil, but also those around the world, have some...
by Anti-Corruption Digest | Sep 22, 2020 | Europe, North America, Security Risks |
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi called for universal adherence to and full implementation of the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) and its 2005 Amendment during the 64th IAEA General Conference. The virtual “NuSec Talks:...
