Financial Crime Weekly Episode 290

Financial Crime Weekly Podcast · Oct 18, 2026 · 13m

Welcome to episode 290 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast. I am Chris Kirkbride. In this episode, the UK has updated designation details for former Bank Otkritie board member Nadia Cherkasova, while Bosnian arms dealer Sasa Micev received a 60-month US federal prison sentence for conspiring to broker illicit surface-to-air missile sales. On fraud, the NCA has led a joint operation across 15 countries which targeted West African scam networks; the IMF and World Bank Group have released the "Bangkok Blueprint" framework to combat cyber-enabled fraud in digital finance; and US federal…