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🎯 How Putin Turned a Western Boycott Into a Bonanza. If companies want to leave Russia, the president is setting the terms — in ways that benefit his government, his elites and his war. NYT
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🌎 Chinese firms look to Malaysia for assembly of high-end chips. As sanctions bite and AI boom fuels demand, smaller Chinese semiconductor design firms are struggling to secure sufficient advanced packaging services at home. Reuters
🌎 The Hunt for Hamas’ Most Mysterious Kingpin. Israel claims to have unmasked the anonymous spokesman for Hamas – but the truth behind the figure known as “Abu Obaida” may be more of an enigma than it seems. Daily Beast
🌎 British man charged with running $100M wine Ponzi scheme. Bordeaux Cellars brokered loans between investors and high-net-worth wine collectors it said would be fully collateralized by high-value collections of wine. Independent
🌎 Israel Found the Hamas Money Machine Years Ago. Nobody Turned It Off. The ledgers, pilfered from the computer of a senior Hamas official, listed assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars. NYT
🌎 FBI secretly taped James Biden as it probed attorney who paid $100K to his consulting firm. Lion Hall has come into focus for Republican investigators looking into whether the president’s brother has used the company to filter money to the rest of the Biden family. NY Post
🌎 Seven Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp. A man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared the material. NYT
🌎 BlackRock, State Street Subpoenaed in House ESG Probe. A congressional panel is looking into allegations from critics that they colluded in key investments. Bloomberg
🌎 Central American Development Bank's Role in Guatemala’s Odebrecht Scandal. A loan from CABEI may have been a key part of the Brazilian construction company’s bribery scheme. OCCRP
🌎 Abramovich Pledged $3 Billion for Ukraine War Victims. The Money Is Frozen in the U.K. Funds from the sale of Chelsea FC are sitting in a U.K. bank account amid a dispute between the oligarch and Britain. WSJ
🌎 Tether responds to US lawmakers’ calls for DOJ action, onboards FBI. Tether has reacted to lawmakers’ requests for DOJ action over its stablecoin use, claiming it wants to be a “world class partner to the U.S.” Cointelegraph
🌎 Why We’re Helping Yazidi Americans Get Justice. Ms. Murad is part of a group of over 400 Yazidi Americans suing the French company Lafarge. NYT
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