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🎯 Russian Billionaires Supply Kremlin’s Army, Military-Industrial Complex. At least 81 Russian billionaires have business links to Russia’s military or to annexed Ukrainian territories, independent investigative outlet Proekt reports. Moscow Times
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💥 SEC Charges Hex Founder Richard Heart With $1 Billion Unregistered Securities Offering. Heart and PulseChain are also both facing charges for using $12 million to buy luxury goods, including a 555-carat black diamond called "The Enigma." Decrypt
💥 Coinbase CEO says complying with SEC request would have been the ‘end of the crypto industry in the US’. The Securities and Exchange Commission asked Coinbase to halt trading on all cryptocurrencies except for bitcoin before it sued the company in June. CNN
💥 How smugglers flood the US with Chinese fake designer bags – hidden under umbrellas. Here is the trek from conception to production to transport to sale of the sketchy goods that bargain-basement consumers find irresistible. NY Post
💥 Russia Takes Its Ukraine Information War Into Video Games. The games and adjacent discussion sites like Discord and Steam are becoming online platforms for Russian agitprop, circulating to new, mostly younger audiences a torrent of propaganda. NY Times
💥 China’s Tech Distress Grows as U.S. Chip Sanctions Bite. The distress signals show Washington’s nine-month-old policy of denying Beijing access to the most advanced semiconductors and the tools to make them is starting to work. WSJ
💥 US, Europe Are Growing Alarmed by China’s Rush Into Legacy Chips. While the US rules introduced last October slowed down China’s development of advanced chipmaking capabilities, they left largely untouched the country’s ability to use techniques older than 14-nanometers. Bloomberg
💥 Spanish police arrest Mexican drug cartel kingpin in Madrid. The Spanish authorities collaborated with U.S. Homeland Security Investigations and the Colombian National Police in the second biggest blow against the Zetas in Spain. Politico
💥 Inside the Wild International Battle Over An Abandoned Superyacht. In an inlet in Antigua, surrounded by touristy hotels and kitschy cafes, a yacht nearly three times the size of a basketball court and twice the price of a luxury private jet sits unused, awaiting its fate. Daily Beast
💥 The U.S.’s Hopes In Iraq Have Ended With The Oil-For-Gas Deal With Iran. The U.S. has for years been giving Iraq tens of billions of dollars to help with its finances on the specific condition that the country reduces its imports of gas and electricity from Iran eventually to zero. Oil Price
💥 Bolivia says huge manhunt closing in on accused drug lord. Bolivia has mobilized more than 2,250 security agents in a massive operation closing in on an alleged cocaine trafficker who has ricocheted around the world to elude capture. AFP
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