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🌎 The Dictators’ Bank: How Central America’s Main Development Bank Enabled Corruption. The Central American Bank for Economic Integration was created to give the region more control over its own development, but a new investigation raises questions about its lending practices. OCCRP
🌎 Republicans renew calls for TikTok ban as anti-Israel posts dominate app. The tidal wave of pro-Palestinian content intensified earlier this month on TikTok, whose base of more than 150 million US users primarily skews toward Gen Z and millennials. NY Post
🌎 Three charged with sending Russia over $7 million in electronics to aid war on Ukraine. The defendants allegedly dispatched hundreds of shipments of restricted items to Russia over the course of a year. CNBC
🌎 How Drug Cartels Transformed Ecuador Into a ‘Narco State’. The country capably navigated the global financial meltdown but has now become an increasingly violent hub for the cocaine trade. Bloomberg
🌎 Biden's foolish reward for Venezuela. Dangerous efforts to lift economic sanctions against Maduro’s oppressive regime will undermine Venezuela's democratic opposition and entrench the criminal syndicate now in power. Washington Examiner
🌎 Crowdfunding for Terrorism Financing. The vast majority of crowdfunding activity is legitimate, but events around the world have demonstrated that it can also be exploited for illegal purposes. FATF
🌎 $1B fine may end the scandal that has captivated Wall Street. Morgan Stanley may pay as much as $1B and promise to tighten its internal controls to resolve a long-running U.S. probe into how it handled private stock sales. Semafor
🌎 Carlsberg says Moscow stole its Russian business. The Danish group had been trying since last year to sell its Baltika subsidiary in Russia, following in the footsteps of many other Western companies exiting the country since its invasion of Ukraine. CNN
🌎 48 Countries Set to Refuse Future Ransomware Payments. The move comes after MGM was hacked last month by ransomware group ALPHV, effectively shutting down electronic hotel key cards, online payment systems, and slot machines. Gizmodo
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