FACT VS FICTION

This edition looks at a common misconception about terrorist financing, and why it can distort prevention priorities.

🔹 Worth saving for training and briefing contexts.

#Terrorism #TerroristFinancing #Prevention #SCENOR

Canada Revenue Agency changes needed after audit of Muslim charity, U of M prof's report says
A report by an expert in extremist financing and money laundering says the Canada Revenue Agency's approach to policing terrorist abuse "proved seriously deficient" in the case of a long-running audit of the Muslim Association of Canada.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canada-revenue-agency-muslim-association-audit-report-9.7149904?cmp=rss
West Africa: Money Laundering Remains Significant Threat to Economic Stability in West Africa - Fagbemi: [This Day] Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, has warned that money laundering, including terrorist financing, are significant threats to the stability of Nigeria's economy and the West African sub-region. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRh7fM #WestAfrica #MoneyLaundering #EconomicStability #Nigeria #TerroristFinancing

new article from #ZekeFaux in Bloomberg about the chairman of the #Trump transition team #HowardLutnick taking an ownership stake in "#Tether, the stablecoin used by drug traffickers, terrorists and scammers to move money around the world" and more specifically about $300 million in terrorist connected transactions:

> It turns out that particular crypto wallet was controlled by Sa’id al-Jamal, a financier of the #Houthi fighters attacking merchant ships in the Red Sea, according to the US Treasury Department... Still, he was able to use those crypto wallets to send and receive more than $300 million of Tether.

no paywall: https://archive.ph/ivmIC
more on tether: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered

#Terrorism #TerroristFinancing #AML #moneylaundering #crypto #USDT #Cryptocurrency #Election2024 #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Republicans #sanctions #russia #putin #ukraine #VladimirPutin #SanctionsEvasion #MoneyLaundering #CantorFitzgerald #USDT

Who assesses @FATFNews ? Why it is not accountable for its actions and the harm caused by their laws?

>>> https://x.com/fatfnews/status/1757442409204518994?s=46&t=kKW9tARaqY_ZT2XIilOaEA

"How effective are countries’ measures to tackle #Moneylaundering and #Terroristfinancing? What progress have they made since their last assessment? See the FATF’s latest consolidated assessment https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/fatf-gafi/en/publications/Mutualevaluations/Assessment-ratings.html
#Followthemoney "

FATF (@FATFNews) on X

How effective are countries’ measures to tackle #Moneylaundering and #Terroristfinancing? What progress have they made since their last assessment? See the FATF’s latest consolidated assessment ratings https://t.co/C3Wrf020jN #Followthemoney

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The group brings together more than 160 intelligence units from around the world, including the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, to cooperate and share information on #MoneyLaundering, #TerroristFinancing and other related crimes. #Ukraine

#Russia Suspended From Global Financial Intelligence Group
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-suspended-global-financial-intelligence-173808952.html

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ICYMI yesterday, here's all the #TerroristFinancing news you might have missed over the last month. Free to read for a few more days:

https://newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/september-2023-terrorist-financing

September 2023: Terrorist Financing News Roundup

All the terrorist financing news from September

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🚨🗞Today's Insight Intelligence is out, and it's all the #TerroristFinancing news you might have missed over the last month. We've got stories from the US, Ireland, Russia, Turkey, Syria, Somalia, and more! We're on a marketing blitz to try to pass 5,000 subscribers by the end of the year, so please do share this free post with a friend or colleague!

https://newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/september-2023-terrorist-financing

September 2023: Terrorist Financing News Roundup

All the terrorist financing news from September

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🚨🗞Today's Insight Intelligence is out, and it's coming to you from New York, where I'm attending a conference to talk about #TerroristFinancing through #cryptocurrency. Here's a sneak peak at what I had to say:

https://newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/terrorist-financing-trends-crypto

Terrorist financing trends: Crypto in decline?

August 2023 update on crypto & TF

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🚨🗞Today's Insight Intelligence is out, and it's all the #TerroristFinancing news you might have missed over the last two months. It's free to read for a short while! We've got stories from Canada, the US, the UK, Turkey, Somalia, and much more.

https://newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/terrorist-financing-news-roundup-628

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