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 provides Senate testimony twice in one week, and Treasury’s new draft rules for real estate transactions and investment advisers draw the U.S. closer to shedding it’s status as the world’s number-one destination for dirty money.
Tanto el mercado inmobiliario, que representa aproximadamente 50 billones de dólares, como el sector de fondos de inversión, con un valor de 130 billones de dólares, durante décadas no se vieron alcanzados por las normas contra el lavado de dinero en Estados Unidos
FACT submitted comments this week praising a pair of proposed rules by Treasury which would close long standing loopholes used by foreign and domestic criminals to launder money through U.S. residential real estate and private investment markets.
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.
