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🎯 SocGen to Sell Stakes in Russian Holdings to Potanin’s Rosbank. Potanin, Russia’s richest person, bought Societe Generale’s stake shortly after Russia sent its troops into Ukraine. Bloomberg
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🌎 China Is Stealing AI Secrets to Turbocharge Spying. U.S. officials are worried about hacking and insider theft of AI secrets, which China has denied. WSJ
🌎 Fentanyl super labs in Canada pose new threat for U.S. opioid epidemic. At a rural property an hour outside Vancouver, Canadian police found 2.5 million doses of fentanyl and 528 gallons of chemicals. WaPo
🌎 Mormon church now owns $2B of US farmland, with more acreage than Bill Gates and China combined. Revelation comes amid growing scrutiny over church finances with some members unhappy with the way it is managing its fortune, believed to be up to $236B Daily Mail
🌎 Iran’s nuclear breakout: ’Twas the night before Armageddon. Tehran is confident that this White House will not take any meaningful kinetic action that would force Iran to change its calculus let alone trajectory in pursuit of becoming a nuclear power. NY Post
🌎 This NYU Student Owns a $6 Million Crypto Mine. His Secret Is Out. Yu, a 23-year-old student at New York University, has also become — quite unintentionally — a case study in how Chinese nationals can secretly move money from China to the U.S. NYT
🌎 The Crypto Queen Pulling the Strings at Binance. Yi He, a former talk-show host, has sweeping control over the crypto giant’s marketing and investment divisions. WSJ
🌎 Ukraine arrests senior Defense Ministry official accused of embezzling $40M. The SBU says the official signed an agreement with a special export company to purchase a wholesale batch of artillery shells in December last year. CNN
🌎 As Singapore Police Probe Money Laundering Ring, a Private Equity Entrepreneur Disappears. Su Binghai, an entrepreneur of Chinese origin, is a “person of interest” in an ongoing investigation into the laundering ring. OCCRP
🌎 China criticizes U.S. sanctions on Russia's Arctic LNG-2 project. The U.S. imposed sanctions on Artic LNG-2 in November as part of a package of sweeping new measures against Moscow over the war in Ukraine. Reuters
🌎 276 Indians stuck in a French airport for days for a human trafficking probe have left for India. The passengers had been heading to Nicaragua but were instead blocked inside a rural French airport in an exceptional holiday ordeal. NBC
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