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🎯 The mystery of the missing binder: A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end Trump presidency. CNN
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🌎 How to sneak billions of dollars out of China. A new era of capital flight has begun. Economist
🌎 Prince Harry was victim of ‘extensive’ phone hacking. The Duke of Sussex was awarded $179,000 on Friday after the UK High Court ruled he was the subject of “extensive” phone hacking. Daily Beast
🌎 He’s Wanted for Wirecard’s Missing $2 Billion. He’s Now Suspected of Being a Russian Spy. Jan Marsalek, the jet-setting former COO of now-defunct Wirecard, enabled Moscow to fund covert operations around the world. WSJ
🌎 Four arrested in Europe over alleged cross-border Hamas terrorism plot. Three held in Germany and one in Netherlands over plans to attack Jewish institutions. Guardian
🌎 UK, US sanction Iranians linked to Quds Force, Palestinian militant groups. London has accused Iran of supporting Houthi militant attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. Reuters
🌎 EU Agrees on Russia Sanctions in Key Show of Support for Ukraine. The last remaining obstacles were technical objections from Austria, which agreed to back the deal Thursday before reversing course and reviving its hold. Bloomberg
🌎 Hungary halts $54 billion European Union deal for Ukraine. Hungary was the only EU member state not to go along with the deal, which will be considered again in January. Hill
🌎 Treasury Sanctions Human Smuggling and Drug Trafficking Organization. Human smuggling organizations like Malas Mañas value profit over human life, endanger the lives of migrants, and undermine the U.S. asylum system. U.S. Treasury
🌎 Freepoint settles US charges over multi-year bribery scheme. The Connecticut-based commodities trader has agreed to pay a criminal penalty of $68 million and forfeit another $30 million to resolve the DOJ probe. Reuters
🌎 Four charged by feds, accused of running an $80 million ‘pig butchering’ scheme. The accused used dating services and social media platforms to send unsolicited messages to victims. NBC
🌎 SEC alleges a Fort Worth company sold $191 million in a cattle contracts Ponzi scheme. The company told investors it knew its offer of 15% to 20% in annual returns sounded too good to be true. Messenger
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