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🎯 Hamas leaders worth staggering $11B revel in luxury – while Gaza’s people suffer. While their people languish in poverty and are treated as human shields, the leaders of Hamas live billionaire lifestyles. NY Post
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💥 Standard Chartered fails to avoid trial over US sanctions non-compliance. More than 200 investors are suing Standard Chartered at London's High Court for allegedly untrue or misleading statements about its sanctions non-compliance. Reuters
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💥 "Moonies" church in Japan offers $67 million in victim compensation as court mulls shutting it down. Victims have described being pressured to spend thousands of dollars on religious paraphernalia and field trips to South Korea. CBS
💥 US Keeps Buying Nuclear Fuel From Russia, Funneling Money to Moscow Amid Oil Sanctions. Russia has long been dumping cheap enriched uranium on world markets, building about a 50% market share of global enrichment capacity. Messenger
💥 Economic sanctions risk losing their bite as a US policy weapon. Today’s challenges extend beyond finance to markets where the US lacks an absolute competitive advantage, such as global commodities and technology. FT
💥 Moscow-Based Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering Conspiracy Squad Charged in Telemedicine Scheme. A U.S. citizen in Russia led his co-defendants in carrying out an international scheme to bill private insurers for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of fraudulent prescriptions. DOJ
💥 Turkish parliament dumps Coke, Nestle from menus over alleged Israel support. Turkish activists have in recent days named both companies in social media posts that call for boycotts of Israeli goods and Western companies they view as endorsing Israel. Reuters
💥 After SBF's Conviction, Investors Are Targeting Larry David, Tom Brady and Other FTX Endorsers. The class action, which seeks to cover hundreds of thousands of investors, alleges that celebrity endorsers should have seen the red flags. Bloomberg
💥 Oracle Employee Helped Cocaine Dealers Hide $54 Million In Crypto. Atwell and Castelluzzo had run a profitable narcotics trafficking business, selling between $2.5M and $3M of cocaine per month. Forbes
💥 Tajik-U.S. Businessman, Russian Accomplices Accused Of Smuggling Technology To Support Russia's War In Ukraine. Over the course of a year, the defendants managed to dispatch over 300 shipments of restricted items, valued at approximately $7M, to the Russian battlefield. RFE
💥 Portugal’s prime minister resigns as his government is involved in a corruption investigation. António Costa resigned Tuesday after his government was involved in a widespread corruption probe, sending a shock wave through the normally tranquil politics of the EU member. AP
💥 Indonesia Joins Money Laundering Watchdog FATF. FATF seeks to promote global standards to mitigate risks and assess AML/CFT compliance and effectiveness. Jakarta Globe
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