{"id":10723,"date":"2026-08-05T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/10723\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:58:48","slug":"news-luxembourg-gives-fiu-power-to-block-fraud-linked-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/10723\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Luxembourg gives FIU power to block fraud-linked payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By PAUL O\u2019DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>LUXEMBOURG has introduced new powers allowing its Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to help block payments to accounts linked to fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows the \u20ac61 million Caritas scandal in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/phone-tablet-desktop.png\" alt=\"AML Intelligence\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"1034874810\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/><br \/>\nSubscribe now to have unlimited access<\/p>\n<p class=\"amlpmp-content-message__description\">With our membership subscription, you will have unlimited access to the AML Intelligence site, updated daily with the latest analysis, opinion, and breaking news across the sector, newsletter delivered twice per week, access to our Global Bank Fines &amp; Penalties database, free access to Boardroom Series and more!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/membership-account\/membership-levels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View subscription options<\/a><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">If you have an account, log in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By PAUL O\u2019DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent LUXEMBOURG has introduced new powers allowing its Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[3268,71,2750,5],"class_list":["post-10723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-luxembourg","tag-caritas","tag-eu","tag-fraud","tag-luxembourg"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@lu\/117044206747827267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}