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Weekly Roundup: DOJ Scraps Anti-Graft Unit, ICC Faces US Sanctions, and More

Newly appointed U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi scrapped the Justice Department's Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, a federal campaign launched in 2010 to seize and repatriate assets linked to foreign corruption, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More President Donald Trump signed an executive order that appears to direct the Office of Foreign Assets Control to again blacklist employees of the International Criminal Court and anyone assisting the ICC's investigations of the U.S. and U.S. allies, Al Jazeera reported. More OFAC blacklisted several individuals, entities and vessels involved in shipping crude oil from Iran to China in line with Trump's pledge to take a...

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