18 November 2009 - Users whose clients conduct business in Belarus kindly note that the Office of Foreign Assets Control [OFAC] has this week published General License No. 1-C*, which extends, to 31 May, 2010, the authority to conduct transactions with two blocked Belarusian entities. Blocked property of the named ent ...more

18 November 2009 - If you read page one on America's most prominent newspapers today, you saw that a PEP from one of the world's most reputedly corrupt countries has been reportedly able to gain easy entry into the USA, notwithstanding that he should not be granted a visa. What many readers also saw was the ap ...more

17 November 2009 - Kosovo appears to have passed its first test of democracy; free and fair elections. The first local elections conducted without United Nations supervision were held this week, in an absence of violence and tension between the country's ethnic rivals. Its declaration of independance last year has ...more

16 November 2009 - The Law Society of England and Wales has advised that HM Treasury has formally approved the updated anti-money laundering practice note. The complete text of the updated and approved practice note can be viewed here*. ...more

14 November 2009 - A Vice President of a Virginia Engineering company has pled guilty* to conspiring to pay bribes to Panamanian government officials from an agency charged with maintaining that nation's waterways, and making false statements to the US Government. The object of the conspiracy was to obtain a lucr ...more