The U.S. Department of State is back again with its annual list of everything that other nations are doing wrong in the fight against money laundering.

The DOS recently released its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR), which does a global whip-round of every country in the world to determine whether or not those countries are doing enough to keep drugs out of American hands, lungs, nostrils, veins et al.

Failure to make demonstrable progress in these areas can lead America to cut off financial aid to a country, although exceptions can be made for any government deemed to be vital to U.S. national interests. So basically, if you’ve got an airstrip that can and will accept B-2 stealth bombers, you can probably export all the fentanyl you want.

The INCSR is split into two volumes, with the second volume devoted to anti-money laundering (AML) efforts and which contains many references to the gaming industry. For example, the INCSR notes that “no casino located in Cambodia has ever filed a CTR” [currency transaction report] and the volume of filed suspicious transaction reports (STR) “is very small, reportedly less than five” in all of 2017.