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🎯 China Bans iPhone Use for Government Officials: WSJ. Restrictions on foreign devices are the latest step in Beijing’s campaign to reduce reliance on overseas technology and could hurt Apple’s success in the country. Insider
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🌎 Here comes Russia’s corporate hit list. Russia’s corporate targets are likely to include any entity that has 4,000 or more employees, or whose revenues exceed $825M, or whose assets that exceed $1.65B. FT
🌎 North Korea publicly executes 9 people for running beef smuggling ring. Authorities forced 25,000 residents to gather at the airport to watch them being shot by firing squad. RFA
🌎 Singapore Seizes Alleged Launderer’s Millions in Swiss Banks. Singapore police seized $92 million from a suspected money launderer’s accounts with Bank Julius Baer and Credit Suisse as a billion-dollar scandal continues to unfold. Bloomberg
💥 Treasury Sanctions Sudanese Paramilitary Leader
🌎 UK to declare Russia's Wagner a terrorist organization. A draft order before parliament will allow Wagner's assets to be categorized as terrorist property and seized. Reuters
🌎 Maduro Seeks Chinese Money to Revive Venezuela’s Oil Sector. Beijing and Caracas are strengthening ties against a backdrop of intensifying US-China rivalry across the region. Bloomberg
🌎 Gabon’s Bongo Family Enriched Itself Over 56 Years of Kleptocratic Rule. While the country stagnated and poverty remained, the family amassed vast wealth – much of it hidden offshore. ICIJ
🌎 Trial starts in Sweden of 2 oil executives accused of complicity in war crimes in Sudan. Swedish prosecutors claim that former Lundin Oil chairman Ian Lundin and the company’s former CEO supported the Sudanese government of former dictator Omar al-Bashir. AP
🌎 Britain reviews checks on 'politically exposed' customers of banks. Britain's financial watchdog has launched a formal review into how banks conduct mandatory extra checks on PEPs and their families for money laundering risks. Reuters
🌎 Five ways kleptocrats can keep hold of their UK assets. There is not one, but five, ways in which a foreign kleptocrat can continue to benefit from the ownership of UK land and property without you knowing about it. Guardian
🌎 Despite Billions in Sanctions Relief, Iran Expands Nuclear Weapons Capabilities. Across its three enrichment plants, Iran reportedly increased its stockpiles of uranium enriched to 5, 20, and 60 percent. FDD
🌎 Cuba says it uncovered a human trafficking ring that sends Cubans to fight with Russia against Ukraine. Two teens said a recruiter offered each a job in construction in exchange for $2,200, a Russian passport and the possibility of taking their families to Russia in the future. NBC News
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