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🎯 He Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange Onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared. In 2020, the company secured an MSB license from the U.S. Treasury’s FinCEN. Özer paraded it around like a trophy. Wired
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🌎 Lawmakers propose sanctions on US index funds investing in China. Bipartisan reps of the CPA caucus have unveiled the No China in Index Funds Act bill. FT
🌎 Judge orders bond company to pay $811M for defrauding migrants. NY AG Letitia James hailed the judgment as a “victory for thousands of immigrant families who lost their life savings.” Daily Beast
🌎 Colombia's cocaine canyon: the guerrilla turf impeding peace. The Micay canyon is a key holdout for guerrillas who rule their fiefdom like a mini-state. AFP
🌎 How Binance’s dispute with Nigeria spiraled into a crisis of arrests and criminal charges. Binance’s dispute in Nigeria began in late February when the government scrambled to address the freefall of its sovereign currency. DL News
🔐 The next crypto sentencing: Binance's "CZ" set for April 30 Axios
🌎 Known terrorist spent year in US after being wrongly released by feds. A Somali terrorist operated freely before authorities realized their error and rearrested him. NYP
🌎 The Boeing Nosedive: A once-venerable company turned its soul over to shareholders and courted disaster. In February, the FAA announced it was giving Boeing 90 days to come up with a quality-control plan – or else. NY Mag
🌎 Russia's Arctic LNG 2 suspends gas liquefaction amid sanctions, lack of tankers. Plans were complicated last year when it was included in Western sanctions, prompting foreign shareholders to freeze participation. Reuters
🌎 Trump-proofing weapons for Ukraine: Allies consider moving arms group into NATO. Officials are expected to discuss gradually moving the Ukraine Defense Contact Group into the alliance’s control. Politico
🌎 Two go on trial in Switzerland over 'kleptocracy' scandal involving Saudi oil firm, Malaysian bank. The defendants hatched plots to cause the 1MDB board to transfer $830M in an “lslamic loan” that followed the joint venture over the next two years. AP
💸 Cannes Yacht Encounter Sparked Geneva Bankers’ Alleged $1.8B 1MDB Fraud Bloomberg
🌎 US government review faults Microsoft for ‘cascade’ of errors that allowed Chinese hackers to breach senior US officials’ emails. The hack “was preventable and should never have occurred,” says US Cyber Safety Review Board. CNN
🌎 IRS claws back money given to businesses under fraud-ridden COVID-era tax credit program. The ERC was designed to help businesses retain employees during pandemic-era shutdowns, but quickly became a fraud magnet. AP
🌎 Seoul Probes Vessel Suspected Of Violating UN Sanctions On N. Korea. The investigation comes after Moscow last week used its veto power to effectively end official UN monitoring of DPRK sanctions. AFP