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🎯 Seeking cash, Hamas turns to allies experienced in ‘financial jihad’. Gaza crisis spurs massive online giving, some of it led by networks accused of aiding al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. WaPo
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🌎 Morgan Stanley to Pay $249M in Block Trading Investigation. The SEC said the bank generated more than $100M in illicit profits as a result of misconduct by Pawan Passi. CNBC
🌎 China's military and government acquire Nvidia chips despite US ban. Buying or selling high-end U.S. chips is not illegal in China and the publicly available tender documents show dozens of Chinese entities have bought and taken receipt of Nvidia semiconductors. Reuters
🌎 Davos’s party secrets: Caviar, magic mushrooms, champagne and A-list private concerts. Endless vices and secret dinners are likely to be on the menu as scores of private jets touch down in Switzerland. NY Post
🌎 Genesis Global Trading Pays $8M to Settle New York Lawsuit. The crypto lender also agreed to cease its business activities in New York and forfeit its BitLicense to settle AML and fraud charges against it. CoinDesk
🌎 Democrat Dean Phillips Blasts Biden’s Handling Of Border: ‘An Unmitigated, Embarrassing, Unforgivable Disaster’. Democrats risk a Republican winning the White House in 2024 because the Party has taken little to no action to fix what is happening at the border. Daily Wire
🌎 How drug traffickers made the Galápagos Islands their gas station. The beloved UNESCO World Heritage site is being pulled into the booming cocaine trade that’s fueling Ecuador’s violence. WaPo
🌎 What’s in Those Huge Suitcases? $125M in Cash. A network of smugglers flew business class to gain extra luggage allowances, moving more than $1M at a time from London to Dubai WSJ
🌎 China Vows Zero Tolerance for Financial Crimes, Will Review Punishments. President Xi Jinping, who has made weeding out corruption a hallmark of his leadership, has promised “no mercy” in the fight and has pledged to clean up “hidden risks.” Bloomberg
🌎 Ransomware gang targets nonprofit providing clean water to world’s poorest. The ransomware-as-a-service gang Medusa listed Water for People on its darknet site, threatening to publish stolen information unless the nonprofit pays a $300,000 extortion fee. Record
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