Happy Friday!  It’s March 29, and we’re tracking top stories to take you into the weekend: U.S. Task Force Kleptocapture delivers the goods, China's oil trade with Russia and Iran, Binance slammed with $35M money laundering charge in Nigeria, meet the prisoners Hamas wants Israel to free, new resources and reports, and much more...

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🎯 U.S. ‘Kleptocapture’ Group Seeks Russia Sanction Evaders Worldwide. Chistyakov’s arrest is the most recent demonstration of enforcement brought by the Justice and Commerce departments under Task Force Kleptocapture. Bloomberg 

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🌎 The Axis of Evasion: Behind China’s oil trade with Iran and Russia. Iran ships oil to China using dark fleet tankers and receives payments in renminbi through small Chinese banks. Atlantic Council

🌎 Binance slammed with $35M money laundering charge in Nigeria. The case filed by Nigeria’s anti-corruption police includes a five-count charge against Binance and two of its executives. DL News

🔐 Detained Binance executives sue Nigeria's security adviser, anti-graft agency Reuters

🌎 Mass Murderers and Bomb Makers: The Prisoners Hamas Wants Israel to Free. Hamas is demanding the release of high-profile terrorists as a condition of a hostage deal with Israel. Dispatch

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🌎 Russian veto brings an end to the UN panel that monitors North Korea nuclear sanctions. The vote in the 15-member council, with 13 in favor, Russia against, and China abstaining, has no impact on the actual sanctions against North Korea. AP

🌎 Russia Doubled Imports of an Explosives Ingredient – With Western Help. Defense companies around the world have been grappling with ways to source nitrocellulose amid a shortage that has seen prices rise and created chokepoints for production. WSJ

🌎 Companies tied to Diddy get federal subpoenas this week amid investigation. The raids on Diddy's homes are just the start – the feds are issuing subpoenas to companies doing biz with him, aiming to identify anyone with info pertinent to the sex trafficking probe. TMZ

🌎 The Audacious MGM Hack That Brought Chaos to Las Vegas. A gang of young criminals. $30M ransom. Casinos in disarray. Six days inside the cyberattack that put corporate America on notice. WSJ

🌎 U.S. tells Venezuela oil sanctions will return in April if it doesn’t agree to free elections. Maduro will now compete against 11 little-known candidates, who will divide the opposition vote among them. Miami Herald

🌎 Suicide Mission. What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane. Boeing had quietly assumed many of the roles traditionally played by its primary regulator, an arrangement that was ethically absurd. American Prospect

🚩 Texas AG Demands DEI Documents as Part of Probe Into Boeing Supplier Daily Beast

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IN THE NEWS

Russia

🇷🇺 Companies sell their businesses in Russia Reuters

🇷🇺 UK Court Decides $10B Jet Dispute to Be Heard in London, Not Moscow Reuters

🇷🇺 Russian network that 'paid European politicians' busted BBC

🇷🇺 Wagner-linked influence operations remain active after leader’s death Record

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China

🇨🇳 Huawei shrugs off US sanctions with fastest growth in four years Guardian

🇨🇳 US may soon unveil list of Chinese chip factories barred from receiving tech Reuters

🇨🇳 A glut of cheap Chinese goods is flooding the world and stoking trade tensions CNN

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Corruption & Financial Crime

💸 Inside the chaos at Glosslab: unlicensed nail techs, $300 Uber trips and an ‘absentee’ CEO NYP

💸 Ericsson Says U.S.-Imposed Monitor Has OK’d Its Anticorruption Program WSJ

💸 1MDB scandal unfolds: Swiss court pursues embezzlement allegations Swissinfo

💸 Brazilian police launch investigation into Bolsonaro’s 2-night sleepover at Hungarian embassy AP

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Crypto & Cyber

🔐 AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them. WaPo

🔐 Amid Bitcoin Fog Operator Conviction, Are Crypto Mixers Now Illegal? Forbes

🔐 Prisma Finance exploited in $10M breach Cointelegraph

🔐 OKX’s Global Compliance Chief Left After Six Months CoinDesk

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Resources & Reports

📌 Status of implementation of Recommendation 15 by FATF Members re: VASP Activity FATF

📌 FinCEN Seeks Comments on CIP Requirement FinCEN

📌 Transatlantic Tech Policy Tracker CEPA

📌 How the Cartels Launder Their Drug Money, According to a Former Agent BI

📌 How cryptocurrencies enable money laundering & terror funding AFP

📌 Report on the EU’s most threatening criminal networks Europol

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