ED summons senior executives of Deloitte in IL&FS money laundering case

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Trouble is mounting for audit firms as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) issued summons to senior executives of Deloitte Haskins and Sells in connection with an ongoing money laundering probe against Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS). According to enforcement sleuths, audit

How to Use a Physical Security Key to Safeguard Your Exchange Account  

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News A physical security key is a piece of hardware used for verifying you have permission to access sensitive online services. It can be used for securing accounts on cryptocurrency exchanges employing two-factor authentication, replacing more vulnerable methods such as receiving verification

Westpac breach highlights cyber-security threat

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News In yet another breach of what consumers are justified in expecting should be a watertight security environment, the private details of almost 100,000 Australian bank customers have been exposed in a cyber-attack on the real-time payments platform PayID, which allows the

Dominica PM Rosevelt’s corruption exposed by US authorities  

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit faces a series of allegations of corruption, political fraud, money laundering, and involvements into numerous criminal activities, including drug trafficking. For years, he has successfully suffocated the voice of the independent media in that country

Enormous Impact of Ethics & Compliance Training 

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Employee training is a subject that has been examined at length. This ECI research report offers an exclusive ethics and compliance perspective on training.  The report acknowledges a certain amount of overlap with studies that more broadly examine training methods. However,

BlackSquid malware uses bag of exploits to drop cryptocurrency miners  

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News A new form of malware has emerged from the depths to attack web servers with a barrage of exploits designed to land illicit cryptocurrency miners. The overall aim is to compromise web servers, network drives, and removable storage to install XMRig, a

Ghana churches on alert for terrorists after Burkina Faso attacks 

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News “The peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid,” reverend father Ekpaa Maalo quotes from the gospel of John as he delivers the homily at an open air Sunday mass. That passage has

Venezuela & Latin America: A way out of the crisis?  

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Few issues are more contentious in today’s Latin America than Venezuela and its multifaceted crisis, marked on 30 April by a sudden and short-lived uprising. On one side are governments supportive of chavismo, the movement established by Venezuela’s late president, Hugo

OFAC Designates Mexican Officials And Others For Corrupt Activities 

  — Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News OFAC designated several Mexican officials, individuals and entities pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act and Executive Order 13818 (Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption). In coordination with other U.S. agencies and Mexican counterparts, OFAC applied sanctions to: Mexican