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🎯 Russian oligarch files $16B claim against Luxembourg over frozen assets. Fridman was sanctioned in 2022 after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with the EU describing him as “a top Russian financier and enabler of Putin’s inner circle.” Politico
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🌎 Texas adds UK lender NatWest to energy 'boycott' list over financing restrictions. The high street banking group is the latest company to be targeted by the Texas comptroller for restricting business dealings with fossil fuel firms. Guardian
🌎 Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand to U.S. Justice minister signs extradition order for Megaupload founder 12 years after FBI-ordered raid over filesharing site. Reuters
🌎 A Drunken Evening, a Rented Yacht: The Real Story of the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage. Private businessmen funded the shoestring operation, which was overseen by a top general; President Zelensky approved the plan, then tried unsuccessfully to call it off. WSJ
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🌎 Mideast oil powerhouse bans Russian 'shadow fleet' vessels that seek to undermine sanctions. A list of ships published by the UAE names Eswatini as the latest country to which no services from any UAE ship agents should be provided. Fox
🌎 Singapore charges Chinese bankers in $2.3B money laundering scandal. The latest charges come a year after the money laundering scandal first unfolded with a series of arrests of wealthy foreigners. Bloomberg
🌎 The Little-Known U.S. Agency Behind the String of Coups Against Mexico’s Druglords. Homeland Security Investigations played a key role in the capture of elusive kingpin and two sons of El Chapo. WSJ
🌎 AMLO to send diplomatic note over U.S. funding for Mexican anti-corruption NGO. Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity denies it’s allied with any political party and said the donations were legal. AP
🌎 Palestinian whose name appears on terror watchlist captured at southern border. The arrest of Shehada – who hails from the West Bank – comes just weeks after three other suspected terrorists were caught at the CA border. NYP
🌎 Wall Street firms to pay over $470M to settle with U.S. regulators over texting. The penalties mark the latest wave of a sweeping multi-year enforcement initiative targeting Wall Street's use of "off channel" work communications. Reuters
🌎 Fact-Checking a Police-Shooting Database. According to Fatal Force, the Washington Post’s police-shooting database, Virgil J. Wolford, Jr. of Columbus, Ohio, was killed by police on April 30, 2018. Except he wasn’t. City Journal
🌎 Former BVI premier sentenced to 11 years in prison for cocaine-trafficking conspiracy. Two years before his arrest in Miami, Fahie pledged to pull back the curtain on the islands’ notoriously secretive financial services industry. ICIJ
🚩 Treasury Unveils New CFIUS Enforcement Site for Further Clarity U.S. Treasury
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