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🎯 ByteDance details dozens of internal misconduct cases from bribery and data leaks. Cases involve accepting kickbacks and leaking information to business competitors. SCMP

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🌎 Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original. Ruviki is intended to be a more “trustworthy” source of information for Russians by editing out anything that makes Russia look bad. 404

🌎 Oligarch Looted Cash to Buy $100M of U.S. Properties. Member of ex-Kazakhstan president’s inner circle is accused of plundering assets of an opposition leader to buy luxury homes. Daily Beast

🌎 CTA Means Jail Time for Small Business Owners. The CTA will impact small businesses across the nation in addition to millions of citizens who use LLCs to invest in real estate. Newsweek

🌎 Experts, politicians call for scrutiny of Venezuela's use of crypto. Tech for digital transactions is changing fast and transactions are rapidly growing in Latin America and Africa. Reuters

🌎 Key Insurer Says Russia Oil Price Cap Increasingly Unenforceable. 800 oil tankers previously covered by member organizations of the International Group of P&I Clubs have migrated into shadow fleet. Bloomberg

🌎 North Korea Will Soon Be Able to Flout Sanctions. After Russian opposition, the UN panel goes dark, removing the global monitor on Pyongyang’s rules-busting behavior. WSJ

🌎 Turkish Businessman Was Behind Purchase of Luxury London Residence For Azerbaijani Official’s Son. Erdal Aksoy is behind a mystery shell company. OCCRP

🌎 German Paper Flags Concerns Over Iranian Firm. Düsseldorf-based subsidiary of Iran's Mapna Group involved in circumventing international sanctions. Iran International

🌎 Huawei steals market share from Apple. Huawei’s profits have surged more than six-fold after the Chinese tech champion overcame sanctions. Telegraph

🚩 U.S. justifies Huawei's Intel-powered AI laptops Tom’s Hardware

🌎 TON takes off on Telegram tie-up. A coin called TON has leapt in value, with investors betting its integration with messenger service Telegram could bring the cryptocurrency to the app's 900M users. Reuters

🌎 Apollo Accused in Lawsuit of Illegal Human Life Wagering Scheme. The PE giant set up a web of sham trusts – using secretive affiliate Financial Credit Investment – to hold portfolio of stranger-originated life insurance policies worth $20B. Bloomberg

🌎 Auditors Balk at Regulator’s Push to Expand Their Role. Proposals on fraud detection and cyber risk would take auditors far outside the parameters of their specialty. WSJ

🌎 Trial for ‘largest COVID-19 fraud scheme’ begins. Prosecutors say $250M was stolen as defendants exploited Federal Child Nutrition Program. KC Star

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IN THE NEWS

Russia

🇷🇺 Russia Says Taking Control of Ariston Unit Is Response to Western Hostilities Reuters

🇷🇺 White House Eyes Russian Uranium Import Ban While House Bill Stalls Bloomberg

🇷🇺 Russia Is Profiting From an Oil Corruption Binge in Libya Newsweek

🇷🇺 Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe The Insider

🇷🇺 Russian Oil Flows Edge Lower With Moscow Readying Sanctions Test Bloomberg

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China

🇨🇳 U.S. research helps China’s hypersonic missiles Washington Times

🇨🇳 U.S. Congressional Uyghur Caucus introduces new sanctions bill RFA

🇨🇳 Phone Keyboard Exploits Leave 1B Users Exposed to Chinese-language keyboard apps IEEE Spectrum

🇨🇳 How the right U.S. chip strategy can keep Taiwan free WaPo

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Campus Corruption

📘 Columbia University student files class action lawsuit against school Fox

📘 Encampment’s Faculty Cheerleader Oversees Columbia’s Core Curriculum Free Beacon

📘 DEI Conquers Stanford City Journal

📘 The West's pathetic appeasement of Islamist extremists Daily Mail

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Corruption & Financial Crime

💸 Executive Flights on Corporate Jets Worth Millions More Than Reported WSJ

💸 Poland's Tusk calls prosecutor over potential Orlen scandal Reuters

💸 FCC fines carriers $196M for selling customer location data Record

💸 Anti-corruption campaign targeting officials, private sector fuels uncertainty in Cuba MH

💸 Three Venezuela Opposition Activists Arrested After Machado Rally AFP

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Crypto & Cyber

🔐 DPRK’s Lazarus Group poses as Fenbushi exec Block

🔐 Account compromise of “unprecedented scale” uses everyday home devices Ars

🔐 Here’s How EU Nations Are Preparing to Enforce MiCA CoinDesk

🔐 Key AI Actions 180 Days Following Biden’s Landmark EO White House

🔐 As Wasabi Wallet and Phoenix Leave the U.S., What’s Next for Non-Custodial Crypto? CoinDesk

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