Ministry of Justice (United Kingdom)

On money laundering indictments in the US, a joint Italian-German operation disrupts a sports association scheme and AUSTRAC deregisters 45 remittance and crypto providers.

Finally, Ukraine's Prosecutor General resigns amid bribery allegations, and in the UK there is a fraud strategy from the Ministry of Justice and annual reports from the City of London Police and NECC.

A transcript of this podcast with links to the stories will be available at www.crimes.financial. And we'll start with the sanctions news in the US.

The State Department announced new sanctions targeting five entities and one individual linked to the Cuban government under Executive Order 14404.

Under the terms of the MOU, The participating agencies will conduct parallel investigations into common targets, share intelligence on syndicates, coordinate prosecution jurisdictions and join forces for an in-person disruption event with private industry partners in London early next month.

Now to the UK, where there have been quite a few reports and so on this week.

So we'll start with the Ministry of Justice, which has published its counter-fraud strategy for 2026 to 2030, establishing a comprehensive five-year framework to protect England and Wales' justice system from the harms of fraud, bribery and corruption.

Grounded in the department's enterprise fraud risk assessment, the strategy prioritizes four key areas of strategic vulnerability.

The Health Minister, Lady Merron, set out how the government would increase oversight of the sector.

The Department of Health and Social Care is leading this work with the Ministry of Justice and other departments, working closely with bereaved families, funeral providers, faith groups, local authorities, and others.

The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, whose diocese includes Hull, said what happened there must never happen again.

Many of those who suffered in Hull were those least able to afford a funeral for their loved ones.

Es una pena que el sistema de justicia penal se falle a sí mismo cuando se trata de delincuentes reincidentes como él.

Tras la muerte de la mujer, el Ministerio de Justicia británico revisó el caso y afirmó que como resultado se han tomado medidas.

Following the woman's death, the British Ministry of Justice only reviewed the case and stated that action has been taken as a result.

Tras la muerte de la mujer, el Ministerio de Justicia británico revisó el caso y afirmó que como resultado se han tomado medidas.

Señalaron que está aumentando la financiación para los servicios de libertad condicional y comunitarios, asegurándose de que los delincuentes que representan el mayor riesgo reciban una supervisión cercana.

They said that it is increasing funding for probation and community services, ensuring that offenders who pose the greatest risk receive supervision mm as close.

Upon her return to Nigeria, local media reported that she was greeted with celebrations in her hometown of Mpong.

Late last year, in a sign of Ike's continued status in his home country, Nigeria's foreign minister met with officials at the UK Ministry of Justice to request that he be returned to Nigeria to serve out the rest of his sentence there.

The UK rejected the request.

Nigeria has arrested and charged several other people with organ trafficking, but the trials have lagged.

It does not come at free.

So are we actually saving money? Should the alternative be to simply make more prisons around the country because the population increase and all of that? So the probation service, which is already stretched out, will now carry the additional burden of supervising thousands of additional people in the community and defenders of the scheme on the other hand including the ministry of justice argued that without this important intervention the alternative would have been far worse courts unable to function dangerous offenders with nowhere to be sent and ultimately greater risk of public safety not less So the question is not really whether this scheme is perfect.

It clearly is not, as we're seeing, it's not a perfect scheme.

But the question is what it tells us about the deeper structural problem in how we approach crime and punishment in this country.

The Lord Chancellor, the Justice Secretary and the Prime Minister made statements this week about their plans.

We don't know the full extent of those plans as yet.

And I think that whilst they have gone slightly further than anyone has been prepared to go up until now, just in terms of IPP prisoners and prisoners more widely, I think that... one of the things that unfortunately happens with government and where the disconnect um uh and this kind of transition breaks down is that civil servants have other ideas and civil servants particularly those at the ministry of justice who've been in their jobs for a long time they see politicians come they see politicians go and it's only the ones with the you know the broadest shoulders that get their policy through because they're determined and they say right actually this is how we're going to do things and i hold the office and therefore this is how we're going to do it but clearly you know Prisons and prison policy is not a vote winner.

So many politicians have been fearful for many years.

The last legal restriction preventing Dr Deakin being named was lifted at the Court of Appeal today, after an application by Associated newspapers following his death.

The Ministry of Justice says around 700 offenders will leave jails in England and Wales on the morning of 1 October under the government's early release scheme.

The revised plan was published this morning after being signed into law yesterday.

Officials estimate more than 2,500 eligible offenders will have been freed by the end of the year.