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KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The trial of Datuk Seri Najib Razak on charges of corruption and money laundering involving 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) funds will resume on Feb 18. The former prime minister is facing four charges of having used his positions…
ISLAMABAD: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has told Pakistan to ensure that individuals affiliated with proscribed organisations were convicted and also sought details of the legal measures it had taken to regulate madrassas. According to finance mini…
The European Union’s 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD) came into effect today, January 10. The regulation was entered as law on July 9, 2018 in an effort to bring increased transparency to financial transactions for pushing back against money launde…
New Delhi (Sputnik): In April this year, the Imran Khan Government took stern steps against the organisations proscribed under the UN and arrested over 100 people linked with them. Prime Minister Khan on several occasions reiterated that his government will n…
Hafiz Saeed. PHOTO: REUTERS LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court in Lahore indicted Hafiz Saeed, the head of the banned Jamaatud Dawa (JuD), in a second case on charges of financing terrorism, filed by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in Gujranwala distric…
An anti-terrorism court in Lahore on Wednesday indicted Hafiz Saeed, the chief of the proscribed Jamaatud Dawa (JuD), and four other JuD leaders who were booked in July for offences pertaining to terror financing. Saeed, along with the others, was presented …
Hafiz Saeed. PHOTO: REUTERS LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Wednesday indicted Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief (JuD) Hafiz Saeed and other leaders of the proscribed outfit on terror financing charges, a government prosecutor said. The charges were read as Sa…
Lahore: After his indictment, the trial against Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed in the terror financing case failed to be held for the third consecutive day on Saturday due to a country-wide strike by the lawyers. File imag of Hafiz Saeed. Reuters Saee…
PHOTO: FATF ISLAMABAD: In line with the FATF recommendations, the federal government has prepared an AML/CFT Rules 2019 draft for the prevention of money laundering and terrorism financing through National Savings Schemes (NSS). It has sought recommendatio…
The blockchain and crypto community is ringing in the new year to a level of legislative and regulatory attention that would have been hard to predict a year ago. On one level, this is unsurprising when many predicted that crypto was dead a year ago following…
