Koos Couvée

Journalist @ACAMS_ml_com, covering illicit finance and anti-financial crime compliance in UK & EU. Personal views. DMs open.

[Koos Couvée @KoosCouvee]

New: The new President of the Financial Action Task Force discusses her priorities, the next round of mutual evaluations, and more, in @ACAMS_ml_com interview: https://t.co/eGxSyNkqGO… (£)

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

BBC confirms at least 10 members of the anti-Muslim Infidels Motorcycle Club - including its VP, treasurer, and a founding member - are running armed security for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, with insiders estimating up to 40 bikers deployed. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed seeking food at these sites in scenes of daily chaos and gunfire. UG Solutions, which pays contractors up to $1,580/day, admits firing warning shots to disperse crowds, as its staff post crusader imagery and Islamophobic content.

Zeteo’s @prem_thakker first revealed that gang leader Johnny “Taz” Mulford - court-martialed and debarred by the Army - now runs the entire Gaza security contract.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Gary Lineker, "What's going on there (Gaza), the mass murder of thousands of children is something we should have an opinion on"

Amol Rajan, "The BBC needs to be impartial about it"

Gary Linekar, "Why? It needs to be factual"

Amol Rajan, "It needs to be impartial about conflict doesn't it?"

Gary Linekar, "It wasn't impartial about Ukraine and Russia"

Amol Rajan, "The Israeli position is that what's happening in Gaza is a response to the slaughter and capture of innocent Israelis on October 7th"

Gary Linekar, "Which was truly awful"

Amol Rajan, "The context needs to be there"

Gary Linekar, "That's not the full context, it started way before October 7th, doesn't it"

[Broadcasting Press Guild @BPGPressGuild]

The #BPGAward for Best Radio Presenter goes to:
ELLEN E. JONES (Screenshot) @BBCRadio4
Congratulations!

[rachel shabi @rachshabi]

'Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents. There will be no buildings' - Israeli defence official, Oct 23
'Bring down buildings! Bomb without distinction... Flatten Gaza' - Knesset member (Likud), Oct 23
Israel did exactly what it said it would do and western allies let it

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Difficult to feel anything but shame listening to this. ‘Because we are Palestinian (journalists), we have only one right which is to die and be maimed’ @AbubakerAbedW speaks about how let down all the Gaza journalists feel by the int media organisations

[Tottenham Hotspur @SpursOfficial]

The choir of limbs.

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

The Sunday Times has found Tulip Siddiq lived in a Hampstead home gifted to her family by an ally of her aunt — the ex-PM of 🇧🇩who now faces allegations of corruption and crimes against humanity.

However, the regime-linked north London properties enjoyed by the Treasury minister for tackling financial crime and her immediate family don’t stop there.

1) She *currently* lives in a £2.1m home owned by a senior Awami League member
2) She still owns a flat gifted to her by a developer linked to the Awami League (h/t @rafeuddin_ )
3) Her mum lives in a £1.2m flat gifted to her by son of “corrupt” billionaire and Awami League politician now in custody
4) Her mum and sister lived in £500k flat owned by another Awami League politician now in custody
5) She owns £860k Cricklewood home: no link but Siddiq broke rules by failing to declare renting it out when she moved into Awami official’s house two years ago.

For more read our investigation today:

https://t.co/NU0Oue1lxr

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Netanyahu cheapens the concept of antisemitism to try to save himself. At a point when Jews around the world need to rally support against antisemitism, Netanyahu throws them under the bus by equating antisemitism with criticism of his own war crimes. https://t.co/uafHQ5WRDT

[ACAMS ml.com @ACAMS_ml_com]

BREAKING: Britain announced the launch of a new campaign against illicit finance Thursday with the blacklisting of three high-profile figures accused of grand corruption, including Angola’s former first daughter Isabel dos Santos.
Read more: https://t.co/z5y5NZbyl0

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Arrest warrants have been issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence secretary Yoav Gallant by the International Criminal Court

🔗 Read more
https://t.co/piTh9uMAq7

[Sky News @SkyNews]

The final moments of Palestinian Doctor Adnan Al-Bursh's life have been revealed through claims made in new testimony by an inmate at the Israeli prison where he died.

Sky’s John Sparks has been speaking to those who saw him in his final days.

➡️ https://t.co/ZWq0jlT7g9

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

“The drones would come down and pick off civilians – children.”
A former NHS surgeon, Nizam Mamode, who spent a month working in Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, broke down while testifying about children in Gaza being shot by drones.

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

NEW: The Biden administration confirms Israel will face no policy consequences for the lack of aid getting into Gaza following Blinken’s threat to potentially withdraw military assistance if key demands aren’t met in 30 days (in a letter sent days before the US election)

[Simon Hedges @Orwell_Fan]

My own analysis of Hillary's harrowing defeat has come to the following conclusions; Liberals are great and we should carry on as normal.

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

Incredible stat:

A single container ship of solar panels can provide as much electricity as more than 50 large LNG tankers of gas – or 100 large coal ships

There's many more insights in IEA Energy Technology Perspectives 2024 – here's a selection 🧵

1/7

[Lindsey Hilsum @lindseyhilsum]

Banning UNRWA is not just about allegations of staff members bring connected to Hamas. It’s about the fact that UNRWA legitimises Palestinians’ refugee status and the ‘right to return’ to what is now Israel. There is more to this than meets the eye.

[Koos Couvée @KoosCouvee]

Breaking: The Financial Action Task Force added Lebanon, Algeria, Angola and Ivory Coast to its “grey list” of jurisdictions with subpar defenses against illicit finance Friday, and de-listed Senegal https://t.co/tl58dokqRs

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Nothing here is verifiable. As int journos are denied unfettered access to Gaza, it’s striking these Israeli allegations about the only journos in N Gaza, come as the IDF is accused by multiple human rights groups of committing grave violations of int law

[Koos Couvée @KoosCouvee]

From Companies House's strategic intelligence assessment, out today, a sense of the scale of the challenge the agency faces in rooting out fraud & money laundering:

Company incorporations in Britain far exceed those anywhere else in the world.
https://t.co/Hc1a8Xa2k9