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🎯 BNP Paribas caught up in French money laundering investigation. The preliminary probe is focused on transfers worth several hundreds of millions of euros and dollars made by TCR International Limited. Reuters
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🌎 Chinese Media Expose Prompts Probe Into Illegal Baby Surrogacies. Despite Beijing’s repeated crackdowns and an outright ban, underground surrogacy services continue to thrive in China. Bloomberg
🌎 ‘A fiction’: the fall of a fintech star accused of ‘massive fraud’. An SEC complaint alleges Tingo inflated its accounts with ‘billions of dollars of fictitious transactions.” FT
🌎 Chinese chess champion stripped of title after defecating in hotel bathtub. Yan Chenglong crowned ‘Xiangqi King’ but overdid celebrations, as governing body investigates whether he cheated using anal beads. AFP
🌎 Congress warns science agency over AI grant to tech-linked think tank. Lawmakers are worried the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s planned grant to the RAND Corp. lacks transparency. Politico
🌎 Hackers steal customer data from Europe’s largest parking app operator. Owner of RingGo and ParkMobile says data including parts of credit card numbers taken in cyber-attack. Guardian
🌎 Prosecutors fire back at Bob Menendez bid to delay corruption trial, claim ‘nothing’ justifies move. Menendez, 69, is accused along with his wife Nadine of accepting bribes — including more than $150,000 in gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz convertible. NY Post
🌎 Wave of drug-carrying drones flying into India from Pakistan. Border officers say most drones carry opium and heroin, fueling a drugs crisis in Punjab, while others drop weapons. Guardian
🌎 Pat Andrew, the phony movie producer, a liar with many faces and victims. Legal cases have been opened against the American businessman in both Spain and Switzerland, for stealing labor and hundreds of thousands of euros. El Pais
🌎 Hamas Attacks Should Renew Our Commitment to the 9/11 Report. Analyzing the Hamas Oct. 7 attacks through the prism of the 9/11 Report will aid our policymakers and serve as a reminder that we must remain vigilant in formulating new CT measures. Messenger
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