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🎯 A $5B German scandal is driving green firms out of business. In January, oil giant Shell received a message on its whistleblower portal: a Chinese emissions-reduction heating project it was involved in was actually a chicken farm. Semafor
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🌎 TD Bank Sets Aside $2.6B for U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Penalties. TD last year confirmed the inquiries into its AML program, “both generally and in connection with specific clients, counterparties or incidents in the U.S.” WSJ
🌎 As repression in Nicaragua deepened, one bank kept the money flowing. An international development bank provided hundreds of millions in funding to the Nicaraguan government, even as it killed and tortured opponents. WaPo
🌎 U.S. Gives Chinese-Owned Green Energy Facility Free Pass in NatSec Crackdown on Foreign Transactions. Gotion High-Tech's corporate bylaws state that the company is required to "carry out Party activities in accordance with the Constitution of the CCP." Free Beacon
🌎 Denmark Can’t Stop the Russian Shadow-Fleet in its Waters. Hundreds of shadow tankers are moving sanctioned Russian oil through Denmark’s narrow waters, and there's not much its government can do about it. Bloomberg
🌎 FBI searched homes of two Americans with ties to Russian state media. The FBI raids coincide with efforts to blunt attempts to influence November’s election. Reuters
🌎 Former executive risks 40 years in prison after doling out cash bribes. Ex-Vitol Group oil trader Javier Aguilar faces 40 years and will forfeit more than $7.1M in two U.S. bribery cases. Fortune
🌎 CZ and Binance face new lawsuit for laundering of stolen crypto. If the class action lawsuit progresses, it could put the “efficacy of blockchain analytics itself” on trial. Cointelegraph
🔐 Binance CEO Urges Nigerian Government to Free Detained Exec CoinDesk
🔐 NBA Star Jimmy Butler and Ben ‘Bitboy’ Armstrong Settle in Binance Lawsuit Decrypt
🌎 Venezuelan National Pleads Guilty to Sanctions Evasion. The defendant exported millions of dollars’ worth of aircraft parts from the U.S. to Venezuela’s state-owned oil company via Costa Rica and Spain. DOJ
🚩 U.S. drafts list of 60 Venezuelans for sanctions over election Reuters
🌎 Crypto ‘pig butchering’ scam wrecks Kansas bank, sends ex-CEO to prison for 24 years. The massive embezzlement led to the collapse and FDIC takeover of Heartland Tri-State, one of only five U.S. banks that failed in 2023. CNBC
🌎 America’s Iran policy is a failure − piecemeal deterrence and sanctions can go only so far. If the U.S. seeks to achieve long-term peace in the Middle East, it must first acknowledge the failures of the past decade. Conversation
🌎 Halliburton hit by apparent cyberattack disrupting systems. The attack appears to be impacting business operations at the company’s Houston campus and some global networks. CNN
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