FinCEN to financial institutions: Beware of Venezuelan money laundering
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Jaclyn Jaeger2019-05-20T11:23:00
FinCEN recently alerted financial institutions of continued widespread public corruption in Venezuela and the methods Venezuelan senior political figures and their associates may use to move and hide proceeds of their corruption.
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