{"id":454378,"date":"2026-02-02T21:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/454378\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:44:09","slug":"experts-warn-of-increased-global-aml-risks-as-criminals-seek-to-launder-venezuelan-money-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/454378\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts warn of increased global AML risks as criminals seek to launder Venezuelan money | Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline meta\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complianceweek.com\/ruth-prickett\/2691.bio\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" class=\"bylinePicture\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ruth Prickett\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Pictures\/web\/h\/q\/p\/prickettcrop_411784.jpg\"  width=\"50\" height=\"50\" class=\"lazyloaded\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complianceweek.com\/ruth-prickett\/2691.bio\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ruth Prickett<\/a>2026-02-02T17:10:00<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"venezuelamoney\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/21146_venezuelamoney_284832.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"67\" class=\"lazyloaded\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0U.S. action to remove President\u00a0Nicol\u00e1s\u00a0Maduro of Venezuela and reopen access to the country\u2019s oil reserves will have a significant impact on geopolitics and organized crime activities \u2013 creating new challenges for global compliance teams. Experts are advising compliance officers to watch developments closely and reassess processes around anti-money laundering (AML) rules, bribery, and sanctions regimes. They should also scrutinize their supply chains for commodities, such as oil, gold, and rare earths.<\/p>\n<p>Compliance teams in companies hoping to move operations back into Venezuela, or to invest in such operations, should ensure that management considers not only the direct operational and financial risks that this carries, but also the risks of compliance failures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ruth Prickett2026-02-02T17:10:00 The\u00a0U.S. action to remove President\u00a0Nicol\u00e1s\u00a0Maduro of Venezuela and reopen access to the country\u2019s oil reserves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-454378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}