In this article former U.S. undercover agent, Robert Mazur confesses that he, his fellow law enforcement agents on the front lines, the U.S. public and the world’s communities have been deceived. A small band of the politically powerful have, time and time again, undermined the integrity of “the war on drugs”. It’s not a war; it’s a lie, he writes.

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When the ATO’s Top 1,000 Tax Performance Program (under which Streamlined Assurance Reviews (SARs) are conducted) comes to an end in December, the Top 1,000 Combined Assurance Review (CAR program) will begin – combining both income tax and GST reviews for the Top 1,000 taxpayers.

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Most of the time, supply chains work seamlessly. That is, until a geopolitical stressor exposes the weaknesses of a system with too much efficiency and not enough resilience.

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Australia has revived its sclerotic anti-money laundering (AML) law reform program with the long-awaited “Phase 1.5” legislation moving through the federal Lower House.

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Thomson Reuters has released its Cost of Compliance 2020: COVID-19 Update, in addition to its unparalleled 11th Regulatory Intelligence Cost of Compliance Report.

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Beyond the FinCEN files: Building a better framework for financial intelligence. Hear from global experts on the future agenda for AML/CTF compliance.

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“Working from home full-time is an entirely different experience, particularly working from home for an extended period of time, which can be fairly stressful,” said Kevin Luo, Assistant General Counsel; GM, Asia-Pacific R&D Group Legal at Microsoft.

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Westpac and AUSTRAC have agreed to a $1.3bn penalty for over 23 million alleged breaches of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (AML/CTF Act). The proposed penalty and…

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An unprecedented leak of thousands of files from the U.S. government’s most confidential financial intelligence database has shone a spotlight on the world’s $2 trillion-a-year dirty money habit.

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