New regulations tackling money laundering in the titanic U.S. real estate and private investment sectors are now expected in early 2024, per a fact sheet released by Treasury on the first day of this week’s UN anti-corruption conference in Atlanta.
FACT applauds the reintroduction of the FOREST Act, which would add illegal deforestation as a specified unlawful activity, or “predicate offense” for money laundering, empowering U.S. law enforcement to better track down and combat environmental crime.
FACT executive director Ian Gary joined experts and allies from Oxfam America, Tax Justice Network Africa, UNDP, and the Australian and Nigerian governments for a panel on global tax transparency as a part of the UNDP’s Dialogue on Tax and SDGs in New York.
Click here to read the FACT Coalition’s latest report analyzing the ways in which U.S. financial secrecy helps abet and reward environmental criminals in the Amazon region.
FACT’s latest report assesses critical gaps in the U.S. anti-money laundering framework that have made the country a safe haven for illicit financial flows from environmental crimes.
With additional resources from the Andes-Amazon Initiative, FACT will work to close regulatory loopholes, increase enforcement efforts, and improve collaboration between the U.S. and governments in the Andes-Amazon region to mitigate illicit financial flows from environmental crimes in the Amazon.
