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🎯 Qatargate Files: Hundreds of leaked documents reveal scale of EU corruption scandal. Evidence from the European Parliament's graft investigation provides a record of more than 300 alleged attempts to manipulate EU democracy. Politico
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🌎 Countering Hamas’s Financial Network: Cutting off Hamas’s financing is made more challenging by the lack of international unity on Hamas’s status as a terrorist organization. Lawfare
🌎 Russian army snaps up Chinese off-road buggies popular in U.S. Purchase of hundreds of all-terrain vehicles made by Shandong Odes could put exports to west at risk. FT
🌎 Meet Allison Greenfield, the law clerk driving Trump bonkers at his fraud trial. In Donald Trump's civil fraud trial, his attorneys have spent a disproportionate amount of time on the judge's principal law clerk. Insider
🌎 How Suspects Laundered Billions in Singapore for Years. Though the recent arrests have led to the seizure of more than S$1 billion in bank accounts alone, it may just be the tip of the iceberg, with at least eight suspects at large. Bloomberg
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🌎 Former US ambassador arrested in Florida over Cuba dealings. A former American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation. AP
🌎 Why crypto was the perfect tool for criminals and kleptocrats. Crypto’s ethos, after all, wasn’t just to make transactions more secure, but also to offer anonymity to anyone who wanted it. CNN
🌎 U.S. Official Reveals Drastic Punishment for Russia. The U.S. aims to halve Russia’s energy revenues by 2030, and diplomat says western sanctions will continue ‘for years to come’ to curb Moscow’s war machine. Newsweek
🌎 North Korea's state hackers stole $3 billion in crypto since 2017. While cryptocurrency exchanges are at the top of their targeting list, they've also been linked to attacks against individual users and venture capital firms. Bleepingcomputer
🌎 Venezuelans approve takeover of oil-rich region of Guyana. For Mr. Maduro, stoking a geopolitical crisis provides a way to shift the domestic conversation at a moment when many Venezuelans are pressing for an election that could challenge his hold on power. NYT
🌎 Rockefeller Brothers Fund funding pro-Hamas groups. Samidoun, founded in 2011, condemned the UK in 2021 for classifying Hamas a terrorist organization, and cheered the Oct 7 terrorist incursion. NY Post
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