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Q: How to get Scala case class fields and values as (String, String) with Shapeless or Macro I have been struggling for a couple days already to try to create a macro or use shapeless to create a method/function to extract field names and values as a Tuple[String, String].
Lets imagine the following case class:
case class Person(name: String, age: Int)

I want to have something like this (doesn't really need to be a method in case class).
case class Person(name: String, age: Int) {
    def fields: List[(String, String)] = ???
}

// or

def fields[T](caseClass: T): List[(String, String)] = ???

I've seen quite few similar solutions here but I can't make it work with my use case of (String, String)
I would also appreciate some literature to learn and expand my knowledge regarding macros, I have both Programming in Scala(Third Edition by Martin) and Programming Scala (O'REILLY - Dean Wampler & Alex Payne) and only O'REILLY has a very small chapter regarding macros and to be honest its very lacking.
Thank you!
PD: I'm using Scala 2.12.12 so I don't have those fancy new methods for case class productElementNames and such :(

A: Based on LabelledGeneric and Keys type classes
import shapeless.LabelledGeneric
import shapeless.HList
import shapeless.ops.hlist.ToTraversable
import shapeless.ops.record.Keys

case class Person(name: String, age: Int)

def fields[P <: Product, L <: HList, R <: HList](a: P)(
  implicit
  gen: LabelledGeneric.Aux[P, L],
  keys: Keys.Aux[L, R],
  ts: ToTraversable.Aux[R, List, Symbol]
): List[(String, String)] = {
  val fieldNames = keys().toList.map(_.name)
  val values = a.productIterator.toList.map(_.toString)
  fieldNames zip values
}

fields(Person("Jean-Luc, Picard", 70))
// : List[(String, String)] = List((name,Jean-Luc, Picard), (age,70))

scastie

IDEA ... shows an error ... No implicit arguments

IntelliJ in-editor error highlighting is sometimes not 100% accurate when it comes to type-level code and macros. Best is to consider it as just guidance, and put trust in the Scala compiler proper, so if compiler is happy but IJ is not, then go with the compiler. Another options is to try Scala Metals which should have one-to-one mapping between compiler diagnostics and in-editor error highlighting.

why you used LabelledGeneric.Aux, Keys.Aux, ToTraversable.Aux

This is using a design pattern called type classes. My suggestion would be to work through The Type Astronaut's Guide to Shapeless in particular section on Chaining dependent functions

Dependently typed functions provide a means of calculating one type
from another. We can chain dependently typed functions to perform
calculations involving multiple steps.

Consider the following dependency between types
                input type
                         |
gen: LabelledGeneric.Aux[P, L],
                            |
                            output type

      input type
               |
keys: Keys.Aux[L, R]
                  |
                  output type

Note how for example the output type L of LabelledGeneric becomes the input type of Keys. In this way you are showing the compiler the relationship between the types and in return the compiler is able to give your an HList representing the field names from Product representing the particular case class, and all this before the program even runs.
ToTraversable is needed so you can get back a regular Scala List from an HList which enables the following bit
.toList.map(_.name)

Hopefully this gives you at least a little bit of direction. Some keywords to search for are: type classes, dependent types, implicit resolution, type alias Aux pattern, type members vs type parameters, type refinement, etc. Typelevel community has a new Discord channel where you can get further direction.

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Q: событие change на input срабатывает дважды Добрый день!
Собственно, проблема в том, что событие change срабатывает дважды при изменении в Input и textarea.код - codepen.io/tokamame/pen/aWrMPM?editors=1011

A: У Вас в коде, а именно в функции-обработчике validateData() имеется 2 вызова console.log() в связи с этим при единственном срабатывании события, вывод происходит дважды.


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Last week, the acting President of the Ancash region (northern Peru, run by drug mafia, über corrupt, self-serving politicos), a certain José Luis Sánchez Milla, was murdered in a somewhat confusing episode when his car was attacked and he was shot dead. Some people say it was a political assassination, others a robbery that went wrong.
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But like I say, it's Peru so this will only get reported in reactionary blogs by people you fools think lefty. No matter that Peru's cocaine trade is now overtaking Colombia's as the world's biggest, there can't possibly be corruption due to that, either. Just keep blaming Venezuela for everything, dumbasses. So move along now..nothing to see here…

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package edu.berkeley.nlp.assignments;

import edu.berkeley.nlp.classify.*;
import edu.berkeley.nlp.util.CommandLineUtils;
import edu.berkeley.nlp.util.Pair;
import edu.berkeley.nlp.util.Counter;
import edu.berkeley.nlp.langmodel.LanguageModel;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Map;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * This is the main harness for assignment 2.  To run this harness, use
 *

 * java edu.berkeley.nlp.assignments.ProperNameTester -path ASSIGNMENT_DATA_PATH -model MODEL_DESCRIPTOR_STRING
 *

 * First verify that the data can be read on your system using the baseline model.  Second, find the point in the main
 * method (near the bottom) where a MostFrequentLabelClassifier is constructed.  You will be writing new
 * implementations of the ProbabilisticClassifer interface and constructing them there.
 *
 * @author Dan Klein
 */
public class ProperNameTester {

  public static class ProperNameFeatureExtractor implements FeatureExtractor<String,String> {

    /**
     * This method takes the list of characters representing the proper name
     * description, and produces a list of features which represent that
     * description.  The basic implementation is that only character-unigram
     * features are extracted.  An easy extension would be to also throw character
     * bigrams into the feature list, but better features are also possible.
     */
    public Counter<String> extractFeatures(String name) {
      char[] characters = name.toCharArray();
      Counter<String> features = new Counter<String>();
      // add character unigram features
      for (int i = 0; i < characters.length; i++) {
        char character = characters[i];
        features.incrementCount("UNI-" + character, 1.0);
      }
      // TODO : extract better features!
      // TODO
      // TODO
      // TODO
      return features;
    }
  }

  private static List<LabeledInstance<String, String>> loadData(String fileName) throws IOException {
    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
    List<LabeledInstance<String, String>> labeledInstances = new ArrayList<LabeledInstance<String, String>>();
    while (reader.ready()) {
      String line = reader.readLine();
      String[] parts = line.split("\t");
      String label = parts[0];
      String name = parts[1];
      LabeledInstance<String, String> labeledInstance = new LabeledInstance<String, String>(label, name);
      labeledInstances.add(labeledInstance);
    }
    return labeledInstances;
  }

  private static void testClassifier(ProbabilisticClassifier<String, String> classifier, List<LabeledInstance<String, String>> testData, boolean verbose) {
    double numCorrect = 0.0;
    double numTotal = 0.0;
    for (LabeledInstance<String, String> testDatum : testData) {
      String name = testDatum.getInput();
      String label = classifier.getLabel(name);
      double confidence = classifier.getProbabilities(name).getCount(label);
      if (label.equals(testDatum.getLabel())) {
        numCorrect += 1.0;
      } else {
        if (verbose) {
          // display an error
          System.err.println("Error: "+name+" guess="+label+" gold="+testDatum.getLabel()+" confidence="+confidence);
        }
      }
      numTotal += 1.0;
    }
    double accuracy = numCorrect / numTotal;
    System.out.println("Accuracy: " + accuracy);
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    // Parse command line flags and arguments
    Map<String, String> argMap = CommandLineUtils.simpleCommandLineParser(args);

    // Set up default parameters and settings
    String basePath = ".";
    String model = "baseline";
    boolean verbose = false;
    boolean useValidation = true;

    // Update defaults using command line specifications

    // The path to the assignment data
    if (argMap.containsKey("-path")) {
      basePath = argMap.get("-path");
    }
    System.out.println("Using base path: " + basePath);

    // A string descriptor of the model to use
    if (argMap.containsKey("-model")) {
      model = argMap.get("-model");
    }
    System.out.println("Using model: " + model);

    // A string descriptor of the model to use
    if (argMap.containsKey("-test")) {
      String testString = argMap.get("-test");
      if (testString.equalsIgnoreCase("test"))
        useValidation = false;
    }
    System.out.println("Testing on: " + (useValidation ? "validation" : "test"));

    // Whether or not to print the individual speech errors.
    if (argMap.containsKey("-verbose")) {
      verbose = true;
    }

    // Load training, validation, and test data
    List<LabeledInstance<String, String>> trainingData = loadData(basePath + "/pnp-train.txt");
    List<LabeledInstance<String, String>> validationData = loadData(basePath + "/pnp-validate.txt");
    List<LabeledInstance<String, String>> testData = loadData(basePath + "/pnp-test.txt");

    // Learn a classifier
    ProbabilisticClassifier<String, String> classifier = null;
    if (model.equalsIgnoreCase("baseline")) {
      classifier = new MostFrequentLabelClassifier.Factory<String, String>().trainClassifier(trainingData);
    } else if (model.equalsIgnoreCase("n-gram")) {
      // TODO: construct your n-gram model here
    } else if (model.equalsIgnoreCase("maxent")) {
      // TODO: construct your maxent model here
      ProbabilisticClassifierFactory<String,String> factory = new MaximumEntropyClassifier.Factory<String,String,String>(1.0, 20, new ProperNameFeatureExtractor());
      classifier = factory.trainClassifier(trainingData);
    } else {
      throw new RuntimeException("Unknown model descriptor: " + model);
    }

    // Test classifier
    testClassifier(classifier, (useValidation ? validationData : testData), verbose);
  }
}

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A Knight's Tale – The Backstory of Jousting and Sword Fighting at the Northern California Renaissance Faire
By StoryStudio September 12, 2018 3:31 pm
Imagine what it's like today to be a knight. First, you have to joust… a lot! Second, you may get knocked off your horse "about a few thousand times." Third, you have to know your way around a heavy sword. But it's all worth it, according to Sir Antonio of Spain, aka Jason Avina, because "when the kids see us when we walk through the Northern California Renaissance Faire, they see a knight and it makes their day—and ours." Sir Antonio has made plenty of days for kids in his life, having first jousted almost thirty years ago. He was actually hired for Ren Faire in 2012 by his very first boss. "There aren't a lot of places where you can put these skills to the test, so I love what I'm doing."
When the kids see us when we walk through the Northern California Renaissance Faire, they see a knight and it makes their day—and ours
Sir Antonio got his start as any aspiring knight does, working as a squire. That was 1997, and at the time he had never even been near a horse before. One year later, having caught the performance bug, he become a knight. He performed every day with Medieval Times for the next fifteen years. Today, when not jousting, Avina can be seen doing stunts on programs like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Training Day. He recently finished shooting a feature film, Mustang with Bruce Dern. "Mostly I am getting shot, as well as fist fights, though in Mustang I fall off horses." (By day in recent years, Avina works as an IT consultant.)
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Besides working with several of his closest friends, the knights who represent other kingdoms, Avina cherishes his time with those he considers the real stars of the show: the horses. A precise performance is the difference between thrilling theatre and serious injury. For example, the knights drop their reins to position their lances, which must strike their opponent's shield in an area no larger than a couple square inches. Once the reins are dropped, Avina and his friends are completely dependent on equine execution. Not surprisingly, the process of training a horse is extremely intricate.
"It's a long and patient process with the horse," explains Avina. "We begin approaching the jousting rail. Then we walk down the rail. Eventually, we put a lance in someone's hand. This point is crucial, because if they have a bad experience at this point they won't go near the rail again. These are rescue horses, so it's critical to add one layer, then a lance, a shield. If any step appears to be bugging them, we take it back one step. By the time they are show ready they've taken more than 1,000 training trips down the rail. My horse is so ready to go I have to tell him not to go. Galloping down the rail is really fun for them."
The knights' training is equally disciplined, though perhaps not nearly as fun. They train 4-5 hours a day prior to the start of a new season, beginning with sword fighting. The knights of the Northern California Renaissance Faire, all veterans of the craft, mix up their shows so repeat visitors never know what to expect when they return to the jousting ring.
"Sword fighting is like learning to dance," he illustrates. "We walk through the movements and break them down like theater fighting. Once the form becomes second nature, we learn to fight. By the time we are ready to joust, the horse is set so up we can learn how to joust. The horse makes the knight look good, then the vets make the horse look good. As you pass down the rail you start to get more accurate, so you can always nail the shield."
The NorCal Ren Faire knights look for big impact strikes on the shield, a hit that results in a loud bang and collective audience gasps. Making it work just right requires a 100-point safety check. The knights constantly anticipate any possible change in routine that could lead to mishap or injury. "I've intentionally fallen off my horse at a full gallop probably 2,000 times, but I've also fallen off my horse onto the rail before," recalls this 30-year knight, "You do that once and you don't want to do it again."
When it's "go-time," the knights change their focus to the shield, narrowing their view out the visor to locate the exact point of impact on the shield. When he sees a clear shot, Sir Antonio shifts his hands, drops the reins and leans in for the strike. "I am in control most of the time, but when we strike or are struck, we are at the complete mercy of our steeds."
The trust continues when Avina falls off his horse into a barrel roll on the ground. The horse must continue to run straight down the rail and out of the arena. When the joust is over, Sir Antonio is ready for ground combat. "We get very physical," he says, "We go at it and we go at it hard! It may be choreographed, but we never hold back, hitting our heavy swords against each other as hard as we can. We know each other so well we can vary things mid-show and my opponent knows just what to do."
When someone says, 'man, how are you guys not dead right now?' That's our biggest compliment
The spectators are universally impressed with the spectacle. Avina says that "horse people" often can't believe how well-trained the horses are, but every visitor watching realizes they've seen a performance that very few people can pull off. "When someone says, 'man, how are you guys not dead right now?' That's our biggest compliment."
Don't get me wrong, there are injuries," Sir Antonio continues, "But there's something about being in the crowd when a child comes up to you at the end of your ride, and he or she is looking at a real knight…. It makes all the hard work worth it. One walk around the Ren Faire, and we're reminded of the pride in making people happy, and how lucky we are to do it."
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Prairie Grove teachers strike; District 46 schools closed
October 12, 2012 (PRAIRIE GROVE, Ill.)
That means no school for about 900 students in that district.
The district says its board and teacher negotiations teams met for more than six hours Thursday with a federal mediator and were unable to reach agreement.
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"Although the Board has imposed its last best and final offer, the parties have worked diligently to reach an agreement. The Board has agreed to the Union salary requests and the Union request for a 'salary schedule,' a District 46 news release says.
The district says the board and the PGTA have agreed to the amount of money that the board will contribute for health insurance premiums.
The district claims the teachers have introduced new grievances not present when negotiations began.
"Late in the session, the PGTA added several other proposals. The Board believes that agreement can be reached quickly if the parties concentrate on the issue that was open at the beginning of the session last night," the district news release said.
Another mediation session has been scheduled for Friday morning.


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Change seems to be all around us now. The economy is depressed, unemployment is up, spending is down, personal budgets are being scaled back. Some folks are jobless. Other people are worried about being laid off their jobs. The US has a new President. TV news is reporting that unemployed persons are going back to school to upgrade their skills. The person who first stated that change is all there is, seems so wise. For many people, change is uncomfortable or downright painful.
Recently at a meeting of California educators, we were discussing the changes we see on the horizon for school districts, schools, teachers, principals and students. It appears that public school districts will be forced to make mid-year cuts and further slash their budgets for the following year. Many districts are already cut to the bone and for next year they may be into the bone marrow. It looks like class sizes will be increased, classified staff will be further cut back, some teachers will be laid off. Textbook money, Professional Development funds, Visual and Performing Arts grants and other categorical money may be swept away into district budgets so districts can make payroll. It feels like California public education is back-to-basics with a teacher, students and a chalkboard.
Persons in our group talked about how to best help schools step back from the emotion of the scene and still focus on program improvement. The research has already been done that supports nine essential components that help schools/teachers/students be successful. Our job will be to help the schools determine which of those essential components can they best leverage at their sites to make the most positive changes for student achievement.
We need to be the keepers of the vision for our schools and districts in which we work. We're here for the students. We realize that things are going to look different. We know that drastic changes are going to be made at schools due to budget crisis. The winds of change are here. We may not be able to control the wind, but we can control our sails. We want to set our sails and help chart the new best direction possible.


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Bridges Hall Transitions to Credit Policy Officer; Jennifer Elliott Named Northwest Market President
ALEXANDRIA, La., March 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Red River Bank announces the following organizational changes affecting the Northwest Louisiana market, which includes the Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan statistical area.
Bridges Hall has been named senior vice president and credit policy officer for Red River Bank. He will remain based in Shreveport, Louisiana. An employee of the bank since 2006, Bridges previously served as northwest market president and stepped in as interim credit policy officer following the untimely passing of the bank's previous officer.
Jennifer Elliott has joined Red River Bank as northwest market president in Shreveport-Bossier City. Jennifer has more than two decades of banking experience and most recently served as north Louisiana market president for another national banking organization.
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Swimmer Delivery Vehicle (SDV): Since World War II submarines have worked together with Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs), commonly known as "SEALs'" (Sea-Air-Land), in a variety of clandestine operations. Carried in a special watertight tank "piggybacked" to a submarine, the SDV gave SEAL teams a greater range of stealth, mobility, and endurance.
X-1: This experimental boat was the first midget sub built for the Navy. X-1 served in a research capacity in extensive tests designed to allow the navy to evaluate its ability to defend harbors against very small submarines. Further tests conducted with X-1 helped to determine the offensive capabilities and limitations of this type of submersible. Because she was never commissioned, the use of "USS" (United States Ship) before her name would be incorrect.
Japanese Type A: During World War II these two-man boats, code-named "Mato," were piggybacked to mother ships, usually larger submarines, which carried them to their areas of operation. Matos were used throughout the war and were present at the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Research conducted after the war indicates that one Mato successfully hit USS WEST VIRGINIA (BB-48) with one of its torpedoes.) The two protrusions on the bow, or front, are torpedoes. Contrary to popular belief, Matos were not meant to be "kamikaze," or suicide, subs. This particular boat was part of a 1944 war-bond fundraising effort.
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NRA Convention Vendor Removes Bleeding Obama Target
By Lisa_Miller
The National Rifle Association asked a vendor at its annual convention in Houston to remove a gory mannequin that resembled President Barack Obama.
BuzzFeed reported Sunday that Zombie Industries, a company that sells life-sized targets that bleed when shot, took down the Obama-esque mannequin after having it on display for two days.
"Someone from the NRA came by and asked us to remove it," a Zombie Industries employee told BuzzFeed. "They thought it looked too much like President Obama."
Zombie Industries calls the model in question "Rocky." The company's website describes the "Rocky" zombie as "HIGHLY dangerous due to his quick wit and strength…he was last seen screaming something like, 'Zombie Industries believes in America!'"
While the company claims any resemblance to actual persons is only a coincidence, the Zombie Industries employee hinted to BuzzFeed that the likeness may be intentional.
"Let's just say I gave my Republican father one for Christmas," the employee said.
The NRA wrapped up its weekend-long convention on Sunday, which featured hundreds of vendors and drew thousands of gun-enthusiasts. Notable speakers included former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and firearms instructor Rob Pincus.
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Will Notre Dame Continue to Betray its Catholic Identity?
Patrick J. Reilly
Indiana has shown that it values religious freedom. The University of Notre Dame has a moral obligation to embrace it.
On Thursday, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed the state's new Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which says that government may not "substantially burden" religious exercise, except when using the "least restrictive means" of advancing a "compelling government interest."
It's similar to the federal law with the same name, which has been cited in a number of federal court cases involving religious freedom. The federal RFRA was central to last year's Hobby Lobby ruling, in which the Supreme Court exempted certain private companies from the Obama administration's requirement that employee health plans must cover sterilization and contraceptives, including some that cause early abortions.
Church leaders and attorneys also hope that RFRA will protect faith-based employers from any overreach resulting from laws redefining marriage, particularly attempts to require spousal benefits for same-sex couples even when it violates the employer's deeply held beliefs. The results of RFRA claims in such cases are far from certain, but RFRA gives religious freedom a fighting chance.
There's one catch: the federal RFRA applies to laws, regulations and actions of the federal government but not the states, where marriage is being redefined. So 19 states, now including Indiana, have passed state-level RFRA laws to place proper limits on the authority of state and local governments.
But last October, when a federal appeals court in Chicago struck down the state's law defining marriage as between a man and a woman, there was no state RFRA protecting Indiana's religious employers. The University of Notre Dame quickly offered spousal benefits to same-sex couples, insisting that it agrees with Catholic teaching in support of traditional marriage, but nevertheless claiming that it must comply with "relevant civil law."
Of course, it was never quite clear what "relevant civil law" Notre Dame was referring to. As South Bend Bishop Kevin Rhoades pointed out in his public statement lamenting Notre Dame's decision, there has been no clear indication that Indiana will force religious institutions to change their employee benefits in violation of their own beliefs.
What is clear, Bishop Rhoades suggested, is Notre Dame's obligation as a leading Catholic institution to oppose laws that violate religious freedom—especially when that freedom "is threatened in potentially numerous ways by the legal redefinition of marriage."
Cardinal Josef Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) said it clearly while doctrinal chief for the Vatican: "In those situations where homosexual unions have been legally recognized or have been given the legal status and rights belonging to marriage, clear and emphatic opposition is a duty. One must refrain from any kind of formal cooperation in the enactment or application of such gravely unjust laws and, as far as possible, from material cooperation on the level of their application. In this area, everyone can exercise the right to conscientious objection."
But Notre Dame chose not to exercise that right. Five months later, Notre Dame has done nothing to assert its Catholic identity over an unjust law, whether real or perceived.
At least with regard to the Obama administration's mandated insurance coverage for sterilization and contraception, it can be said that Notre Dame has gone through the motions, filing a lawsuit that it continues to pursue in federal court—even as it undermines its own case by simultaneously complying with the mandate. But on marriage, the University has seemed delighted to expand its spousal benefits, touting its "respect for diversity" and support for "GLBTQ families."
Justifiably, some Catholics have charged the university with willfully compromising its Catholic mission. Last month three Notre Dame professors—the law school's Gerard Bradley and John Finnis, and political scientist Daniel Philpott—wrote a scathing critique at Public Discourse that found Notre Dame's actions to be "morally indefensible." William Dempsey, whose Sycamore Trust organizes fellow Notre Dame alumni to advocate stronger Catholic identity at "Our Lady's University," has lamented the "astonishingly quick surrender" of Notre Dame to advocates for same-sex marriage—and even accuses the University of "encouraging" couples to violate Catholic teaching.
No doubt leaders of Notre Dame would defend their intentions, and now is their opportunity to prove it. Because if they don't now take cover under Indiana's RFRA and cease providing benefits that would have horrified Notre Dame's Catholic founders, then there's no confusing the message that Notre Dame will send to its students, its employees and the American public: We deny Catholic teaching on marriage.
To be sure, that's an attractive option for those who would like to preserve Notre Dame's standing in American society. To be faithfully Catholic is counter-cultural and even self-damaging today—especially for a university that thrives on the popularity of its athletic team and merchandise sales. It would be a tough thing to not be liked.
Worse, standing for Catholic beliefs could incur charges of discrimination, even when that's the last thing that Notre Dame would ever promote. In its student activities and faculty relations, Notre Dame has often pushed beyond the boundaries of Catholic morality to prove that it loves and respects all its members, regardless of sexuality. Far better it would be to do the rewarding work of a faithful Catholic university, teaching why the Catholic understanding of marriage is most compassionate to children, to spouses and to all mankind.
Notre Dame is a Catholic institution, and it's about time that it shares in the hard struggles of the many faithful Catholics and other Christians whose faith and morality are, sadly, no longer fashionable in the United States. It could uphold marriage while truly displaying Christian love and charity to all our brothers and sisters, and yet it would incur the hatred of those who fail to understand. But in so doing, Notre Dame could do more to teach its students and a nation about things that matter than it does in many of its classroom activities.
Notre Dame needs to take the exemption that has been made possible by Indiana—not simply to opt out of laws that don't respect Catholic values, but to opt in again to the Catholic community that it has too often neglected for the sake of public prestige.
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Patrick J. Reilly is founder and president of the Cardinal Newman Society, a national organization to advocate and support the renewal of genuine Catholic higher education.


A little girl from Russia's Penza Oblast received a rare diagnosis: a genetic disorder that causes increasingly severe epilepsy, limiting the girl's life expectancy to her teenage years. An effective treatment for her condition exists, but only outside Russia: within the country, the medication she needs is not officially registered. The girl's parents used established laws to request government funding for the drug and even took government officials to court in the process, all to no avail. They are not alone: many Russians need lifesaving medications that have not been registered in Russia and cannot be sold in pharmacies there as a result. Accessing unregistered drugs requires incredible and sometimes even illegal efforts. Meduza correspondent Darya Sarkisyan reports on the lives of Russians who need unregistered drugs and explains what Russian residents do if they need immediate access to medications that cost several hundred thousand dollars a year.
While two-year-old Nastya Karlash was taking a walk in her hometown of Kamenka, a district capital in Penza Oblast, she had a spasmodic attack. Her mother, Maria, said her health had been typical for a child her age until then. The family took Nastya to a regional children's hospital, but Maria said the doctors there were unable to diagnose her daughter. They also did not refer her to a federal hospital.
"The doctor said, 'You have something that might be epilepsy. In Saratov, there's a private clinic called EpiCenter—try going there, the specialists there aren't bad," Maria recalled. "In Saratov, they gave us a diagnosis of focal epilepsy. But they still weren't entirely confident in the diagnosis. The seizures were happening more and more often, and they told us, 'If you want, you can go to Moscow. There's a medical center called Genomed where you can get analyzed on your own dime.'" And that's what the Karlash family did. After three months of research, doctors gave Nastya a diagnosis of CLN2 disease, one of a group of disorders called neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses or Batten's disease. CLN2 is a genetic disorder that bolsters the development of epilepsy and makes muscle control difficult: a child who has it loses the ability to see, talk, and move without a wheelchair, typically passing away in her teenage years.
Doctors told Karlash that there was no cure for the disease but that a drug for it was soon to be approved abroad. In 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did indeed approve cerliponase alfa, which prevents the accumulation of substances in the body that allow the disease to develop and generate new symptoms. The drug, which is being sold under the commercial title Brineura, must be taken throughout the patient's life. Clinical trials indicated that those who begin treatment early enough can live longer lives that may not differ substantially from the lives of those who do not have CLN2.
In order for any drug to be bought and sold freely in Russia, it has to be registered with the Russian Health Ministry. While nonregistered drugs must be purchased abroad for a specific individual, registered ones can be obtained in Russian pharmacies. In order to register a new drug, a pharmaceutical company must submit a request along with a sizeable set of documents, including reports on clinical trials conducted within Russia.
The law makes an exception for medicines that target very rare illnesses—conditions that affect fewer than 10 people out of every 100,000. Registration requests for these drugs can rely on clinical trials conducted abroad, which can lead to a shorter wait time for approval.
Unregistered treatments can be used on Russian territory in accordance with another set of rules. The easiest way for someone who needs a new drug to avoid bureaucratic difficulties is for that person to travel abroad and purchase the necessary medicine for themselves — and only for themselves — before returning to Russia along with receipts and other documents that can demonstrate their right to use the medicine if necessary. In 2019, some unregistered drugs will become available in the International Medical Cluster, a new project located in the Skolkovo Innovation Center on the southwest edge of Moscow. Hadassah Medical Skolkovo, which is run by an Israeli clinic, is the only medical center to have opened in the cluster thus far. The International Medical Cluster is legally exempt from the usual bureaucratic demands, and its staff say an individual patient could order and obtain the nonregistered medicine they need there in the course of a day. So far, the cluster can only use that loophole to provide treatment for cancer, but as new clinics open there, the range of medicines available should also expand. However, on January 31, reports emerged that even the cluster's limited services are temporarily unavailable due to internal contradictions in the laws that govern them.
In certain cases, the state itself can purchase an unregistered drug. This route is available for patients who need hard-to-access treatments either because they do not respond well to medicine available in Russia or because the patient's life is in danger. In other words, if a patient is legally entitled to treatment at no cost to them and they need a drug that happens to be nonregistered, that drug should nonetheless be provided for free. This bureaucratic procedure requires the approval of two medical commissions: first, a federal comission or a medical institution within the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, and second, a committee within a regional medical institution where the patient has received treatment. These commissions are charged with determining whether the medication in question is truly necessary.
When the CLN2 drug Brineura was approved in the United States, Maria Karlash turned to the nonprofit "Dom Redkikh" ("House of Rarities"), which provides expert assistance on questions related to rare diseases. With help from the organization's specialists, she obtained permission for Nastya to be hospitalized at the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital. There, a committee of doctors concluded that it was necessary to administer Brineura even though the drug had not yet been registered in Russia. Maria obtained all the documents necessary for the purchase and contacted the Penza region's health ministry herself to request the medicine her daughter needed.
Meduza interviewed several experts who also said doctors face administrative pressure to steer clear of nonregistered medications. One doctor at a large children's clinic who asked to remain anonymous recalled one case in his institution when a young boy who had a rare disease needed an expensive, nonregistered drug. His parents went through the required process to obtain the medicine using state funds and received approval from the two required medical commissions, but they ultimately received the drug only after surmounting numerous bureaucratic obstacles. After that case, administrators at the federal clinic involved told its doctors "to put together fewer commissions." In other words, they asked doctors who treat patients with rare conditions to stop requests for vital unregistered treatments before those requests even got off the ground.
Natalya Savva of the Dom s Mayakom Foundation said there seems to be an unspoken agreement among doctors to minimize costs and use what they have.
In December of 2017, Maria Karlash submitted an application for her daughter's medicine with all the necessary documents to the Health Ministry of Penza Oblast. Her application was received, and officials promised to issue a response in 30 days. After one month, the family received word that the ministry had lost their documents but later found them and would issue a decision in two weeks. The decision was a refusal. "When I got there, they said, 'We can buy you this medicine if you give us the money,'" Karlash told Meduza. "If I had that much money at my disposal, I would never have gone there." Karlash would need approximately 50 million rubles, or $760,000, every year—the full amount of the treatment's cost in the United States. Maria said the regional health ministry's unofficial justification for refusing approval was that it did not have enough funds to pay for Nastya's treatment.
Charitable foundations tend to take on a significant portion of the fundraising that becomes necessary in these cases, but when a family needs a sum as large as the cost of Nastya's medicine, not a single foundation is able to take on the task. "We see families all the time who try to raise an insane amount of money on the Internet, and individual philanthropists occasionally pitch in," Olga Germanenko said. "So far, no one has raised enough money to pay for even a single year's treatment. And when that year ends, what do you do? This is a drug you have to take for your whole life." Anastasia Tatarnikova from Dom Redkikh said she reached out to various foundations in one case when the regional health ministry involved was unable to pay for a patient's treatment. All of her requests were rejected. One of Russia's larges charitable funds, "Podari Zhizn" ("Give Life"), spent almost 150 million rubles, or nearly $2.3 million, in 2018 on a special program specifically intended to pay for nonregistered medicine. That amount of money is enough to treat only three patients like Nastya Karlash. Even so, Podari Zhizn paid for 60 percent of all the nonregistered drugs that were imported into Russia during the course of its program.
Dom Redkikh pointed Meduza to a 1994 government order that assigned regional governments responsibility for covering treatment for children with disabilities. In 2013, a letter from Russia's federal Health Ministry to its regional counterparts affirmed that order. Nonetheless, regional officials often complain that the sums in question are too great. Health care experts along with patients and their parents say that one common argument among regional bureaucrats is that spending money on very costly treatments for a few people might prevent the government from funding insulin purchases for thousands of people with diabetes. Anastasia Tatarnikova of the Dom Redkikh board of directors acknowledged that similar arguments will always be available, but that doesn't make them airtight. She argued that regional health ministries can request additional funding from the federal budget by creating a special program to record, justify, and account for additional expenses. Such programs are already active in certain regions. When asked why that solution is not always available when it is most needed, Tatarnikova answered that bureaucratic inertia is still an obstacle. She added that some officials may not see a single child's quality and length of life as a particularly important issue.
Russian law outlines 12 severe conditions for which the federal government must provide treatment using its own budget. Predictive estimates put the cost for those medicines in 2019 at 10 billion rubles, or slightly over $150 million. That is a sizeable financial load for any country, and different governments attempt to lessen it in different ways. One common tactic is to strike a deal with pharmaceutical companies such that the government must pay for a given drug only if it actually improves the patient's condition.
For example, in 2017, negotiations between the British National Health Service and the company that produces the breast cancer treatment Kadcyla (ado-trastuzumab emtansine) enabled the British government to provide the treatment to patients free of cost. The drug had previously cost approximately $115,000 to prolong the life of a single patient with terminal cancer by an average of six months. The amount by which that cost decreased was not disclosed, but the company's discount was sufficient for the government to cover the cost of the drug.
Maria Karlash said the message she received from officials in the Penza regional health ministry was "There's no money. You shouldn't come here. Nothing will change." Nastya's father, Mikhail, responded by suing the ministry. The family had already made contact with Kirill Kulyaev, an attorney from Dom Redkikh who helped them compile all the necessary documents for their request. The Karlash family won its first court case, but the health ministry appealed that decision. By the end of August 2018, it had received permission not to fund Nastya's treatment even though Russia's federal regulatory agency for health issues took her side in the case. The court's final decision, which Meduza has on file, indicates that Nastya has the right to receive the medicine she needs on Russian territory but that the government has no obligation to pay for her treatment.
Healthcare specialists believe the Karlash family would face far fewer difficulties if CLN2 were included in one of two regulatory lists. The first is called "the 12 nosologies" in professional circles. Until 2019, there were only seven "nosologies." Patients who have illnesses included in the list can receive very expensive medicine through the government's budget; these are the 10 billion rubles projected for federal spending in 2019. Olga Germanenko said having a loved one's illness included in the list is a dream for many families because it guarantees far more reliable access to lifesaving medicine.
The second list is the federally backed "Catalogue-24," which has since the beginning of 2019 encompassed 19 conditions whose treatment must be funded through regional budgets. Experts were unable to tell Meduza why CLN2 is not included in that list. Anastasia Tatarnikova said she has tried for many years to determine what criteria allow an illness to be included in Catalogue-24. She explained that the criteria were never clear. However, she said some experts believe the list is intended to cover life-threatening illnesses for which internationally registered treatments already existed when the list was created, which was in 2012. Tatarnikova's research indicates that at least 13 more illnesses have since come to meet those criteria, including CLN2.
Now, the Karlash family has almost no options left. In December 2018, they lost their appeal. Judging by the experiences of other patients, every other hope they have for seeking treatment is, to say the least, unrealistic.
Some pharmaceutical companies also organize early access programs, which can provide a new drug for free over the first several months of treatment. However, these programs typically arise only if the government can guarantee that a drug will be registered or that the government will soon begin funding purchases of the nonregistered drug. Anastasia Tatarnikova said she has gotten word that the Russian company Biomarin plans to register the CLN2 drug Brineura, but that request for registration will take at least a year to go through. Biomarin's central office did not respond to Meduza's request for comment.
Sources in the healthcare industry confirmed that it tends to be less difficult to receive funding and approval for medicine that is already registered in Russia; there are fewer reasons the government might lean on to refuse those requests. That said, Federal Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova has said her ministry cannot force pharmaceutical companies to register drugs. While she is technically correct, the agency can influence the registration process. Natalya Savva of Dom s Mayakom explained that, in some cases, companies have no incentive at all to register a new treatment: registration requires new clinical trials on Russian territory, but those efforts are almost never profitable because the market for drugs that target rare diseases is so small.
A number of treatments have made news after those who needed them fell victim to those limits. One was a plaster infused with fentanyl, which was sold in Russia for adult use only until 2017. In the summer of 2018, a Moscow resident named Yekaterina Konnova purchased another such treatment for her son Arseny, who was seriously ill. The diazepam microclyster she found on the Internet failed to improve Arseny's condition, and Konnova attempted to sell it. She was charged with the sale of a psychotropic substance, but prosecutors withdrew that case in response to widespread social outcry.
The fentanyl plaster ended up being one of a very small number of treatments that became more widely available after government negotiations. "In all likelihood, this was a very singular exception to the rule," Savva said. "At that point, there was a huge government campaign on anesthesia, and we were also able to come to an agreement with the company involved. This was all possible because of communication. The government has to compromise. The conditions for registration are often disadvantageous for pharmaceutical companies, and then we're the ones who have to grab them by the shoulders and shake them so that they provide treatment for our kids. It's just silly." Savva argued that the government should take a leading role in the issue and develop policies that prioritize lifesaving drugs.
Representatives of Russia's Association of International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers declined to respond to questions about the factors that can affect international companies' decisions on whether to register expensive medications in Russia.
Natalya Savva said patient organizations can also play a role in negotiations. In December 2018, a request to register the spinal muscular atrophy drug Spinraza was submitted to Russia's Health Ministry. The medication had been approved in the United States two years previously. Nonetheless, Olga Germanenko said the company that produces Spinraza was hesitant to enter the registration process. The Semyi SMA foundation reached out to the company's representatives and discussed the issue with them extensively. Germanenko believes the presence in Russia of such an active patient organization ultimately played a significant role in the pharmaceutical firm's decision to pursue registration. "The company can see how many patients there are, and they can see that those patients care and will fight to receive treatment," Germanenko said.
Nastya Karlash's doctor, Artyom Sharkov, argued that doctors like him also have a role to play in stimulating the registration of new drugs. He explained, "I make regular efforts to spread information about early diagnostics. Essentially, as long as there isn't a defined pool of patients that has formed some kind of organization, nothing will happen. But in order for that kind of group to form, someone has to diagnose [patients] early and collect their names in a registry." That process, Sharkov asserted, must be driven by health care providers.
Once CLN2 symptoms appear, patients have only a few years to get back what they have lost. Artyom Sharkov said there will come a time when even Brineura will be of no use to Nastya, and the only option left will be palliative care to reduce her symptoms until she dies.
Following the scandal that surrounded Yekaterina Konnova's case, Russia's Health Ministry invited several healthcare experts in the nonprofit sphere to a meeting. Natalya Savva and Lida Moniava of Dom s Mayakom were among them. After the meeting, Moniava wrote on Facebook that the ministry had promised to issue an explanation by October 15, 2018, regarding what families can do when the registration system does not work for them. No such explanation had been released by the time of this writing. For two months, the Health Ministry failed to respond to Meduza's inquiries regarding access to nonregistered medications.


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Isn't it amusing to find out that with less than 40 days to the general elections, the two major gladiators who are front runners to take President Muhammadu Buhari's job are calling for each other's arrest and prosecution for almost the same reason? The two political juggernauts who are essentially six and half a dozen clearly have nothing to offer Nigerians and it appears they are tired of trying to prove otherwise.
Ahead of the February 25th elections, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his counterpart from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu have taken the gloves off and are at each other's necks. While Tinubu is asking that Atiku withdraws from the race on the ground of corruption, Atiku is insisting that Tinubu must withdraw from the race on the grounds of his links with drug dealing. These calls from both politicians have only succeeded in making a mockery of the elections and by extension, Nigerians whose mandate they are dubiously seeking.
The truth many Nigerians must get used to is that Tinubu and Atiku are like two peas in a pod. They only have three things to offer Nigerians, which are Corruption, corruption, and more corruption. They are ostensibly in the race for two reasons, one is just to take the title of 'Mr. President' for egotistical reasons and the second reason is to corruptly enrich their families, friends, and cronies at the expense of the collective interest of Nigerians.
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In the 2015 elections, Nigerians were bombarded with empty rhetorics of corruption fights by the then opposition party, which is today a ruling party – the All Progressives Congress (APC). Many Nigerians have been wondering why this time, despite the massive cases of graft going on in the country, none of Tinubu and Atiku has managed to make it central to their messaging ahead of the elections. The reason is simple. Both candidates swim and drink corruption and like siamese twins, they will require rigorous surgery from gifted hands to stand a chance of separation.
Both the Adamawa-born billionaire and the 'landlord' of Lagos are irredeemably corrupt going by their antecedents and records even though they are not so different from their peers in the Nigerian world of political business. Through very crooked means, they have become very senior citizens in graft, rich and influential, in a poor country where opulence lives side by side with misery.
Just a few days ago, Tinubu shamelessly called on security agencies in the country to invite, arrest, interrogate and prosecute Atiku over a series of corruption allegations. While citing a video clip made by one Michael Achimugu, a young man said to be a former aide of the PDP candidate, Tinubu claimed that Atiku as vice president between 1999 and 2007, colluded with his then boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, to operate illegal accounts tagged, 'Special Purpose Vehicles' SPVs. As serious and damning as the allegations were, it is only laughable that it was coming from Tinubu, a man whose entire life has depended on the expert deployment of 'SPVs'.
Tinubu's inability to come clean to Nigerians on his involvement in some SPVs which include Alpha Beta and Soft Alliance which he has continued to use to siphon money from the treasury of the Lagos government has completely rubbished any claims or calls he is making.
Details of how the 'Emi Lo Kan' crooner used an SPV company known as Soft Alliance, to steal a whopping $ 1 million belonging to Lagos State through an account 0015778102 in a third-generation bank and how the sum of $826,000 belonging to Lagos State was also reportedly moved to a domiciliary account with the account number,0036620785 which is owned by Tinubu in a first-generation bank with a number in a three-day lodgment scheme is no longer secret.
Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu
Over the past two decades, Tinubu has continued desperately try to divert the attention of Nigerians away from one of his special SPVs named Alpha Beta Consulting Limited and Alpha Beta LPP, which are companies he owns by proxy which he uses to siphon billions of taxpayers money from the government of Lagos State, since 2002. It is rather sad that Nigerians, whose future is being toiled with are not asking questions. They are not asking Tinubu why and the government of Lagos State why and how it is only Alpha Beta that has for over 20 years held the exclusive rights to collect taxes in Lagos State in return for a commission under very shady arrangements. They have not tried to find out from the dangerously corrupt Tinubu why the identities of the owners of the SPVs are not yet common public knowledge. Many Nigerians do not know that some of these SPVs actually do shares addresses with Tinubu's office on Idowu Taylor Street. They seem not to be so interested.
Atiku on his part is no different, perhaps, he is even worse. The trending video from the whistleblower underscores the evil nature of Atiku's heart and his propensity to corruption and illegal dealings. Many Nigerians do not know that the company called Marine Float is the SPV that was used by Atiku to receive over N100 million Naira from former Plateau State governor, Joshua Dariye, who was jailed for offenses relating to that dubious transaction. It is now easy to connect the dots as to how Atiku Abubakar managed to build his private university and acquire some of the companies he now owns.
Atiku's expertise in 'cooking' corruption is no longer in doubt. In the viral voice note, he could be heard boasting that the issue of that account was thoroughly investigated by EFCC and nothing was found. Armed with the knowledge that the SPVs were untraceable to him, Atiku showed no mercy in looting the common patrimony of Nigerians as Vice President.
How the former customs officer brought tens of millions of dollars of 'suspect funds' into the US when he was Nigeria's vice president in the 2000s, according to a US Senate report, and was implicated in a bribery case that resulted in the imprisonment of an American congressman, William Jefferson is no longer new to Nigerians.
At this point in time, Nigerians must come to the full realisation that the PDP and APC have only presented them with two sides of the same rusted coin called Atiku and Tinubu, and the only patriotic duty they owe Nigeria is to reject them both at all costs. Both looters are exactly the same and belong to the same cathedral of embezzlement and looting as renowned Bishops. The manner in which they bamboozled with their ways to snatch the nominations of their parties should paint a horrible picture for discerning Nigerians. While their battle for supremacy in the 'corruption brotherhood' continues, Nigerians should only sit back and watch and be grateful to posterity for pushing them to expose themselves. Both men are dangerously corrupt, handing over the keys to Nigeria's treasury to any of them is akin to handing over the keys to a well-stocked barn to a hungry goat, it will require a miracle for them not to loot Nigeria to death!
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$120,000 in Baldwin funding supports UW-Madison student investigations with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism over the next three years.
A summary of what happened, news coverage and the Center's response to the budget provision that would have evicted the Center from the University of Wisconsin.
The Center's eviction is now in Walker's court. Both houses of the state Legislature have declined to ax a state budget provision that would evict the Center from the University of Wisconsin and bar UW employees from working with it as part of their duties.
Motion 999 was approved 12-4 down party lines, with Republicans in the majority, around 6 a.m. The controversy and coverage began shortly afterward, from news organizations and groups across the nation and the political spectrum.
State agencies' hiring of outside contractors surged last year, according to a report quietly released by the state Department of Administration. The annual report, posted Monday on the DOA's website, shows that state agencies spent $363.8 million on private contractors — an increase of 26 percent compared to the previous fiscal year.
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AML Guidance About Tax Evasion for Organizations
Blog / AML Guidance About Tax Evasion for Organizations
There are many sectors where money laundering can be realized. Although money laundering generally appears to be drug-fighting and terrorism financing, financial offenders also launder money through tax evasion. Money laundering activities on tax evasion are high, and regulators and governments have some regulations to prevent activities.
Not every tax evasion is money laundering. If the income tax laws and the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) are not complied with in criminal activities, it can be said that this tax evasion is realized through money laundering. As soon as these transactions are noticed, the necessary criminal action is taken. We will examine the relationship between money laundering and tax evasion.
Relationship Between Money Laundering and Tax Evasion
Money laundering is a very comprehensive issue, and these criminal activities are a risk for institutions such as banks, real estate agents, the gaming and gambling industry. Also, Apart from these institutions, money laundering is a great risk in tax evasion. Tax evasion means using illegal plans to avoid taxes that must be paid legally. Tax evasion is made over taxes such as tax evasion, income or wealth, or inheritance taxes, and customs duties. Tax amnesty incentives and returning assets can increase ML / FT risks. Tax amnesty and asset return incentives encourage taxpayers to highlight previously undeclared funds or other assets. This may cause large amounts of funds excluded from the official financial system to be invested in financial institutions during the program.
The consequences of this situation may exceed the capacity to implement Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing measures. Furthermore, in cases where funds or other assets are returned, information about funds or other assets can be kept in different countries, making it difficult for financial institutions to verify the legitimacy of these transactions. As a result, all these activities are some of the situations that can lead to money laundering.
On the other side, After the 2008 economic crisis, the public debt of many countries increased. Hence, the countries aimed to increase their tax revenues in order to serve the need for education, health, and housing expenditures. Some misuse has occurred in this tax system used by governments. In 2011, the Tax Justice Network announced that $ 3.1 trillion was lost annually due to tax evasion and companies' tax heavens. These figures are very high, and the reduction of money laundering activities in tax evasion or reduction of tax evasion is of great importance for governments.
Money Laundering Techniques in Tax Evasion
Financial criminals apply some techniques while laundering money, and these techniques reduce the likelihood of their transactions occurring, and they can launder money more easily. As the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) indicates, financial criminals can perform these techniques through financial systems, cash couriers, legal exports, and imports. As the first stage of money laundering, criminals deposit their money from tax evasion into a bank or inoculate to the legitimate business's turnover. This stage is called the pre-washing. In the second stage, money travels worldwide many times to hide the illegal source of money, which is called the main wash. At this stage, there are complex risks and financial structures. Offshore centers play an important role in the main wash. In the money laundering phase, the more often money travels around the world, the less can be traced to the origin of the crime. Finally, it is the stage of the use of money.
Criminals make permanent investments with this money, such as buying a company, buying lux car or jewel. Moreover, various methods are used for money laundering, some of which are; Opening an account with a fictitious or wrong name, Smurfing, Partnering in crime with financial institutions, Benefiting from various companies, Exchange offices.
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Money Laundering Regulations for Tax Evasion
Tax haven jurisdictions used banking as an easy tool to withdraw money to facilitate global tax evasion. In other words, financial institutions in these jurisdictions were used as a business model to facilitate tax evasion. When this is the case, financial institutions such as banks are subject to severe penalties set by the regulators because they technically do not comply with the AML Compliance Program. Governments and regulators have taken additional measures to prevent these crimes, for example; The USA put into force Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) in 2010, also FATF made some changes in its own recommendations in 2012 in order to prevent tax evasion crimes.
According to the 2012 FATF Recommendations, most organizations have changed AML laws to make tax evasion a definite crime. International financial centers are now very conscious of being perceived as a tax haven. In particular, financial institutions should conduct a risk assessment and take a risk-based approach in order to prevent money laundering caused by tax evasion. Internal audits within organizations, employees' training on these issues, and awareness of regulations are very important. These days where technology is developing, new methods are developed in tax evasion, and organizations should abandon traditional methods to protect them from these crimes. In addition, the Fourth AML Directive also emphasizes tax evasion crime as a definite crime for money laundering.
Why AML Risk Assessment Is Required for Tax Evasion
With the Risk Assessment, organizations can identify and take action money laundering activities that may arise due to tax evasion. As we have stated in our article, tax evaders can launder money in many ways. Tax smugglers deposit this money they missed while laundering money on the platform like a bank. If a risk assessment is made in businesses, these can be identified before activities. So how does the risk assessment recognize this? Many indicators are used, such as the types of customers used during the risk assessment and geography risks.
With the risk-based approach, the customer is scanned before the transactions take place, and the risks that may arise are evaluated and reported. As a result of the AML risk assessment, it is important to define and document a risk framework that is compatible with regulatory and operational risks. All aspects of risk should be taken into account when developing new services and establishing new relationships with outside parties. Organizations should not only conduct risk assessments against their customers but also risk assessments for their own employees. Therefore, it is important to take a risk-based approach to its employees.
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Risk-Based Approach
Regulators have a number of laws to prevent money laundering through tax evasion. Organizations that have to comply with these laws can make this easier with a Risk-Based Approach. A risk-based approach is usually made before the customer performs the transaction, that is, if a financial offender wants to launder money through tax evasion, this customer is scanned before this deposit takes place, and then the same person is scanned at certain periods. Here, even if it is not understood that the person is guilty in the first transaction, the guilty person can be determined in the subsequent transactions. Money laundered due to tax evasion causes loss of reputation for businesses. In addition to this, the government may have some sanctions besides the regulators' penalties, so the risk-based approach is a very important practice.
Adverse Media Screening Impact on Determining the Tax Evasion
The person who will launder money through tax evasion in institutions may have negative news in the media beforehand. Companies that have reached this news may not be able to estimate the risk of this person and perform the transaction. Considering that millions of news appeared in a day in the world, it is impossible to search for news about people with traditional methods. At this point, Adverse Media Screening scans the news for organizations and reveals negative news about people. With Adverse Media, you can learn the risk values of the people you are scanning. Companies may not even do business with these people and even create a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) about these people. It can detect crimes such as tax evasion, money laundering, terrorism, financial crimes, violence, narcotics, cybercrime, fraud, legislation, and human trafficking. So if someone has committed such crimes anywhere in the world and is caught, Adverse Media can reach this news in seconds. Organizations perform Adverse Media control and support AML compliance processes in addition to job sanctions and PEP scans in customer engagement processes.
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