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🎯 Haru Invest Execs Arrested in South Korea for Stealing $826M Worth of Crypto. The platform paused withdrawals and fired 100 employees last June citing issues with service partners. Block
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🌎 US Sanctions Halt Delivery of New Vessels to Russian LNG Plant. The start of the plant, a key venture for Russia, has been hit by US measures as Washington penalizes Moscow for the war in Ukraine. Bloomberg
🌎 US Pressure on Russian Oil Sees Dark Fleet Turn to Gabon’s Flag. The number of vessels that were switched to the African nation’s flag jumped fivefold last month Bloomberg
🌎 Russia's Novatek sets up China office to market gas amid sanctions. The move illustrates Russian energy companies' continued pivot to Asia, especially China. Reuters
🌎 Elon Musk calls out $2.3B allocated to NGO personnel facilitating 'illegal immigration' in border bill. Musk: "Biden’s strategy is very simple. 1. Get as many illegals in the country as possible. 2. Legalize them to create a permanent majority..." Fox
🌎 Dozens of NYC housing employees hauled away in handcuffs after large-scale raid. The charges may be linked to “micro-purchase” projects, or contracts for smaller repairs at city housing developments. NYP
🌎 FinCEN Pressured to Implement Anti-Money-Laundering, Sanctions Whistleblower Program. U.S. senators express concern about delay in the program’s full implementation. WSJ
🌎 China’s top prosecutors promise financial crime crackdown is about to ramp up. Strong rule-of-law guarantees will be provided ‘to serve and safeguard high-quality financial development’. SCMP
🌎 With ‘pig butchering’ scams on the rise, FBI moves to stop the bleeding. The con is called pig butchering — so named because victims are likened to hogs, fattened up for slaughter. NBC
🌎 Mattis secretly advised Arab monarch on Yemen war. His request was highly unusual: a legendary four-star Marine asking to work for a foreign head of state as a personal consultant about an ongoing war. WaPo
🌎 US to Impose Visa Restrictions on Those Who Misuse Commercial Spyware. The Biden administration says more than 50 of its own diplomats and other US personnel were targeted. Bloomberg
🌎 Guerrero: This California millionaire is peddling eternal life. Why do so many people believe him? Psychonauts and seekers here have long embarked on quixotic quests to transcend our common reality. LAT
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