FACT executive director Ian Gary was quoted in coverage of Treasury’s new anti-money laundering regulations for residential real estate transactions by the Associated Press’ Fatima Hussein.
“After years of advocacy by lawmakers, anti-money laundering experts and civil society, the era of unmitigated financial secrecy and impunity for financial criminals in the U.S. seems to finally be over,” said Gary.
FACT program director for environmental crime and illicit finance Julia Yansura was quoted in coverage of the recently-announced Amazon Initiative by ICIJ’s Brenda Medina.
FACT policy director Zorka Milin was quoted in coverage of the recently-filed SEC tax transparency petition in coverage by Law360’s Kevin Pinner.
In recent coverage by The Hill, FACT program director for environmental crime Julia Yansura outlined linkages between the U.S. financial secrecy system and nature crimes like illegal mining in the Amazon region.
Read the Miami Herald’s coverage of FACT, the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, and Global Financial Integrity’s new report identifying 25 cases in which $2.6 billion in illicit funds were funneled into U.S. commercial real estate properties.
FACT’s Julia Yansura is quoted in leading Peruvian investigative journalism outfit Ojo Público’s new investigation into mining and money laundering enclaves in the Amazon. The seven-month long investigation documents the export of at least 3,089 tons of high-purity gold of unknown origin from five Andean-Amazon countries between 2014 and 2023.
