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Inspector General Criticizes FinCEN

The U.S. financial intelligence unit failed to disable departing employees' access to private transactional details in a timely manner on at least six occasions from October 2016 through January 2020, and in one instance took 24 days to do so, a federal audit has found. The audit, the second of four in which the Treasury's Office of the Inspector General, also known as the OIG, will review the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's handling of confidential information, examined internal and external access to millions of suspicious activity reports, or SARs, and other sensitive records collected and filed pursuant to the Bank...

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