Financial Crime Weekly Episode 291

Welcome to episode 291 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast. I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, UN Security Council and UK Government listing updates for Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, new US sanctions targeting five Chinese entities over technology trade secret theft, and the European Commission responds to US Russia sanctions waivers. On enforcement, FinCEN identifies a $270 million federal student aid fraud, there are guilty pleas in multi-state deed fraud and an extensive NCAA/NBA sports game-fixing ring, alongside federal sentencings for a $30 million drug money laundering operation and a California prison contraband bribery scheme. On the regulatory side, MONEYVAL has initiated Lithuania’s 6th round mutual evaluation, ESMA has finalised updated Market Abuse Regulation delay guidelines, the UK FCA has revoked four trader prohibition orders, and UK agencies have issued their 2026 Economic Crime System Priorities. Finally, the UK ICO has issued reprimands to two Welsh organisations following a ransomware breach which exposed children's data. A transcript of this podcast, with links to the stories, will be available at www.crimes.financial.   The photograph on the podcast cover art is by Sora Shimazaki at Pexels, and the stinger sample between each news section is ‘Ben Logo 1’ by BenKirb from Pixabay.