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  • 2 Jan 2024 8:37 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

     With an apparent absence of any resource or funding commitments, and with some actions arguably dependent on funding rather than strategy, possibly the most effective action will be improving the way in the which agencies work together effectively to tackle these five lines of action to tackle serious and organised crime:

    •           In-country: with increased impact against the highest-priority organised crime groups operating in and against the UK, in particular increased impact against fraud and economic crime, including illicit finance and cybercrime.

    •           UK Border: to disrupt organised immigration crime.

    •           International: the disruption of high-harm organised criminals overseas, with improved information and intelligence sharing internationally, linked to wider government development goals.

    •           Technology and capabilities: ensuring the best intelligence and data collection, analysis, and investigative capabilities are in place to identify and disrupt organised criminals.

    •           Multi-agency response: ensuring all public and private sector partners are working together as effectively as possible with the right capacity, skills, structures and tasking processes.

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  • 3 Oct 2023 9:59 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The European Financial and Economic Crime Threat Assessment looks closely at current and emerging threats relating to financial and economic crime. Using insights and case examples from Europol’s dedicated crime centre, this report analyses the threats posed by money laundering, criminal finances and corruption, and how they have evolved as a result of technological and geopolitical changes. The report also examines the role of these crimes in the broader picture of international serious and organised crime, where criminal networks use financial and economic crime as a tool to obscure, and ultimately benefit from, profits made by illegal activities.

    https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/The%20Other%20Side%20of%20the%20Coin%20-%20Analysis%20of%20Financial%20and%20Economic%20Crime%20(EN).pdf

  • 27 Jun 2023 10:48 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

     The National Crime Agency (NCA) has published revised guidance on how to submit better quality suspicious activity reports (SARs). The guidance includes instructions on online reporting via the NCA portal, guidance on how to structure a SAR, specialist guidance on defence against money laundering (DAML), and some useful good practice tips and examples. It is unlikely the guidance will provide many surprises for experienced MLROs. However, its publication perhaps indicates that the NCA has concerns about the quality and detail provided in some SARs, and the guidance will be useful in helping to get a swift response from the NCA.

    https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications/650-guidance-on-submitting-better-quality-suspicious-activity-reports-sars-v9-0/file

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