US EditionCalls to Overhaul UK's 'Outdated' Sanctions Regime
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Calls to overhaul UK's 'outdated' sanctions regime
Experts are calling for an overhaul of the UK’s “outdated” sanctions regime, which is “ill-equipped” to face modern forms of crime and conflict. Former justice secretary Robert Buckland has argued for reforming the UK sanctions system to better suit modern threats, writing in a report by the Adam Smith Institute (ASI). The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 was introduced after Brexit as the UK government sought to develop a framework …
The British newspaper The Guardian revealed that despite the current sanctions, timber from Russia and Belarus is still illegally entering the British market. The newspaper cited the findings of the international organization World Forest ID, which deals with the protection of forests, whose report indicates irregularities in the marking of the origin of timber.
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