Russia
🇷🇺 Virtually Every Sanctioned Russian Oil Tanker Remains Idle and Empty Months After Sanctions Bloomberg
🇷🇺 G7 leaders to discuss €30bn loan for Ukraine using Russian assets Guardian
🇷🇺 UK sanctions watchdog flops in face of Russia’s war Politico
🇷🇺 GOP lawmaker proposes sanctions against Georgian officials over Russian-inspired law Hill
🇷🇺 India's spike in trade with Russia not a 'temporary phenomenon' Reuters
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China
🇨🇳 U.S. Fears Undersea Cables Are Vulnerable to Espionage From Chinese Repair Ships WSJ
🇨🇳 TikTok Parent ByteDance Now Has China’s Most Popular AI Chatbot Bloomberg
🇨🇳 Dozens of China’s state regulators, bankers, finance bosses in corruption net as crackdown stepped up in new year SCMP
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Corruption & Financial Crime
💸 Even a Fraud Conviction Won’t Keep Nikola’s Founder Away From the Company WSJ
💸 Authorities raid Tel Aviv municipality, 13 arrested for corruption, money-laundering JP
💸 South Africa's top court rules ex-president Zuma ineligible to run in general election AFP
💸 Fat Leonard bribery cases fall apart because of prosecution blunders WaPo
💸 Fraud Trial to Begin for Ozy Founder Carlos Watson NYT
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Crypto & Cyber
🔐 San Francisco: trial begins in killing of tech executive that shocked city Guardian
🔐 Genesis Set to Return $3B Customer Assets in Finalized Bankruptcy Liquidation Plan CoinDesk
🔐 OpenAI disbands team devoted to artificial intelligence risks Axios
🔐 How a Chinese police raid on $2B underground bank augurs new crypto clampdown in Asia DL News
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Trafficking
🚚 Federal judge orders ICE to end ‘knock and talk’ arrests of immigrants in Southern California LAT
🚚 Border Patrol agents reveal how easily terrorists and killers get into US despite being screened NYP
🚚 Philippines arrests Australian suspect, reportedly the father of a rugby star, for drugs trafficking AP
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