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Great Britain's newly formed financial sanctions unit that is part of HM Treasury has its first supervisor, Rena Lalgie, who joins the agency in conjunction with a push by the U.K. to enforce a tougher financial sanctions regime. Sanctions professionals interviewed by ACAMS moneylaundering.com knew little about Lalgie, who is understood to have joined the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation following a year-long tenure as director of operations at U.K. Trade and Investment, a government department that promotes international commerce. The fact that she has worked across a number of government offices over several years indicates that she has "the...