@kcouvee
London-based journalist at ACAMS moneylaundering.com (@acamsmldc.bsky.social) covering illicit finance and anti-financial crime compliance in UK & EU. Personal views. Tips? My DMs are open and you can contact me securely on Signal: kcjourno.27
1. Iran had en heeft geen kernwapens maar heeft nu duizend redenen om ze nu wel te hebben.
2. Spanje? Je bedoelt het land dat de genocide in Gaza wilde stoppen? The audacity.
historical oil demand vs secnarios
On the second fossil fuel crisis of this decade (and likely to be worse than the last, fair to say), a few small thoughts
First: global oil demand would be so much lower without climate delay, fossil corruption, oversized SUVs, western overconsumption. Everyone who pushed these holds responsibility
This'll be interesting to watch: Binance has begun recruiting a U.K.-based money laundering reporting officer, signaling that the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange is preparing a renewed push into Britain, where it remains under a regulatory warning
Full story: www.acams.org/en/news/bina...
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Labour: why don't you all fuck off LOL
Labour: no not like that
"Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
Fascinating deep dive from the FT into why Deutsche Bank simply could not quit Jeffrey Epstein
www.ft.com/content/b1d9...
BREAKING: FinCEN Deploys Patriot Act Against MBaer Merchant Bank in Switzerland
The bank allegedly funneled more than $100 million through the U.S. financial system for "illicit actors" in Iran and Russia, according to the U.S. Treasury
www.acams.org/en/news/brea...
Palestinian journalists describe being systematically abused, beaten and starved in Israel prisons, according to a new report published by the Committee to Protect Journalists
cpj.org/2026/02/pale...
“Mandelson may be gone, but Mandelsonism remains the default mode of British politics.”
Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
News: Austria's Financial Markets Authority has responded to an exodus of top compliance officers from KuCoin by imposing broad restrictions on the crypto exchange—only three months after granting the company a license to operate anywhere in the EU
www.acams.org/en/news/aust... (€)
"After making a vast numbers of private renters homeless, the plan, according to sources ... had been to use their flats as temporary accommodation. This form of housing is much more lucrative and is paid for by local councils using public funds."
www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
With @evidentmedia.org and Hind Hassan we detail the part American-made munitions play in Israel’s operations in Gaza. We collected data on the use of three munitions produced solely in the US and found hospitals, schools, homes and civilian infrastructure were hit. www.youtube.com/shorts/5J8M9...
Just Cyprus things...
"...the court said key witnesses did not appear and had not been summoned, a lapse judges described as decisive in dismissing the case."
www.occrp.org/en/news/cypr...
We Need to Tax Billionaires -- Gabriel Zucman
In bookstores in the UK on May 21
Very much looking forward to this
Absolutely we should fear terrorism and seek to prevent it.
But we should also fear those who use either real terrorism or bogus claims about terrorism to boost their own powers, restrict our freedoms and corrode our democracy.
Both present major threats to public life.
A total, total humiliation for the government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
The Mandelson story is a rare glimpse into the private life of power, and the extent of state capture by unconstrained wealth. @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @ethanshone.bsky.social joined me on @lrb.co.uk ON POLITICS to lay out just what that corruption means: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Interesting Bloomberg feature about the burgeoning cash-for-crypto trade for money laundering
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
"Indeed, take a look at the ways in which it was written up, at the time, by many of those most outraged after the fact. When the appointment was announced, did the papers focus on the Epstein link? No, nearly all of the reaction was about China."
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/what-starm...
Furious clarity from Jude Wanga www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
not only is he the man we all knew he was - including Streeting - the wheedling, slimy, ingratiating tone of the emails has *always* been the core of who he was, from 'intensely relaxed' through to chumming about on Deripaska's yacht to, yes, betraying his country for a paedophile financier.
I'm actually begging political correspondents to stop writing like this
"Having been invited in 2010 to an Epstein dinner with Woody Allen and then Prince Andrew in New York, the magazine editor, Tina Brown, replied: “What the fuck is this . . .? The paedophile’s ball?” Brown’s reaction should have been everyone’s."
www.ft.com/content/3f82...
BREAKING on ft website:
Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans
www.ft.com/content/fdf7...
New: Deutsche Bank chief executive Christian Sewing confirmed Thursday that a failure to file a suspicious activity report in a timely manner triggered the prosecutorial raids that swept the German lender's headquarters this week
www.acams.org/en/news/late...
Seat map for “Melania” at AMC Boston Common 19, Friday Jan 30 at 7:45 pm. The screen is at the top with multiple curved rows of mostly available blue seats. Rows are labeled A through N, with wheelchair-accessible and companion seating clustered in the middle rows. No seats are occupied.
Seat map for “Melania” at AMC Boston Common 19, Friday Jan 30 at 10:30 pm. The screen is at the top with evenly spaced rows labeled A through N. Most seats are available, with wheelchair-accessible and companion seats centered in the middle rows. No selected seats are shown.
Melania hasn't sold a single ticket at all in Boston. This movie was an obvious bribe by Bezos and Amazon.
Man who works in sewer wonders why there's all this shit down here.
