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  2. Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 - Wikipedia

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    The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (SAMLA 2018) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom applying to the United Kingdom.. The Act has two purposes; a) To enable the UK to create its own sanctions framework, allowing it to issue sanctions rather than adopting EU or UN models, and b) to make provisions of the purposes of the detection, investigation and prevention of money ...

  3. United Kingdom sanctions - Wikipedia

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    The UN did not interfere with individual countries imposing their own sanctions on any country, however when the UN imposed sanctions, just 5 times between 1946 and 1990, against North Korea, South Africa, Portugal, Rhodesia and Iraq, the UN expected all nations to back the sanctions. [12] The UK imposed its own, non-UN sanctions against Iran ...

  4. What sanctions has the UK imposed on Russia, and could more ...

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    Alongside the US and other allies, the UK says the measures against Russia amount to the largest set of financial sanctions in history. Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab ...

  5. Operation Destabilise - Wikipedia

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    Operation Destabilise was an international investigation led by the National Crime Agency which, over the course of three years, uncovered a money laundering ring with ties to criminal organisations in the UK, drug cartels in South America, the Kinahan Organised Crime Group, Russian espionage efforts and sanction avoidance.

  6. Oil tycoon Shvidler says UK sanctions are arbitrary in ...

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    A billionaire oil tycoon tried again on Wednesday to overturn British sanctions imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in the first case of its kind to reach the UK's Supreme Court. Eugene ...

  7. Isabel dos Santos hits out over UK's 'dirty money' sanctions

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    Angolan tycoon Isabel dos Santos, once dubbed "Africa's richest woman", has hit out at the UK for imposing sanctions on her, telling the BBC the move came as a surprise as she had not been found ...

  8. Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022

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    The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (c. 10) is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, which expands provisions in relation to sanctions and financial crime, [2] that was fast-tracked through Parliament in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [3] [4]

  9. Money laundering - Wikipedia

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    Money laundering is the process of illegally concealing the origin of money obtained from illicit activities (often known as dirty money) such as drug trafficking, underground sex work, terrorism, corruption, embezzlement, and treason, and converting the funds into a seemingly legitimate source, usually through a front organization.