Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Today, how major money

launderers are evading international sanctions. One that is used by a lot of people under sanctions

is to go through family members. Another way would be to go via associates or individuals that you

have prior connections with. A new report on one suspected wrongdoer in Africa today.

So are the lawmakers winning the war on shutting down the bad guys.

We're not winning. The bad guys are still bad guys

and they're still buying their £100 million homes on Park Lane or in Hampstead or whatever.

And we don't seem to be doing much to stop that.

How to evade sanctions that's Business Daily from the BBC.

The US is taking tough new action against the regime of Nicholas Maduro. Venezuela will now be

facing many of the same restrictions the US has historically imposed on Cuba and North Korea.

All assets of the Venezuelan government in the U.S. will now be frozen.

The president is issuing an executive order authorizing the imposition of additional sanctions

against any individual owning, operating, trading with, or assisting sectors

of the Iranian economy, including construction.

If you've been following the news in recent weeks, you will have heard that COVID-19 hasn't

dampened the U.S. taste for imposing sanctions on foreign people or firms that it deems

undesirable.

Well, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill to impose sanctions on Chinese officials

for the country's treatment of Uyghur Muslims.

As part of that maximum pressure campaign, I'm announcing that the United States is imposing

sanctions on the Chinese entity.

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