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🌎 How does Hamas get its weapons? The answer, according to experts, is through a combination of guile, improvisation, tenacity and an important overseas benefactor. CNN
🌎 Goldman Sachs sues Malaysia over push to redo 1MDB settlement. Executives at the Wall Street firm have grown increasingly frustrated with the country’s demands to redo its existing 2020 pact in favor of more onerous penalties, and the lack of information tied to the looted assets the nation has been recovering. Bloomberg
🌎 Vanguard funds invest in China military groups. Wall Street’s role in financing Chinese companies connected to the People’s Liberation Army is becoming increasingly contentious in Washington. FT
🌎 India accuses China's Vivo of visa violations, siphoning off $13B. The accusations, detailed on Tuesday in a court filing follow the arrest this week of a Vivo executive, Guangwen Kuang, in a money laundering investigation launched in 2022 into India's second biggest smartphone player. Reuters
🌎 Belgium Expects To Use $2.4 Billion In Tax On Frozen Russian Assets. Belgium, where most frozen Russian central bank assets are held, expects to collect 2.3 billion euros ($2.4 billion) in taxes on the assets and use them to help reconstruct Ukraine. Reuters
🌎 FTX tried a lawyer, Thai prostitutes and finally a bribe to get frozen funds unlocked. In Caroline Ellison's continued testimony, she said that at the FTX and Alameda co-founder’s behest, the firm sent a $150 million payment to the unidentified official. Axios
🌎 Germany to Take On Money Laundering With Plans for New Authority. The Federal Cabinet approved the draft of the Financial Crimes Combating Act (FKBG). The draft law fundamentally reorganizes the fight against financial crime, especially money laundering, in Germany. German Finance Ministry
🌎 Ex-Barclays chief executive Jes Staley fined £1.8m over relationship with pedophile Epstein. The Financial Conduct Authority found Mr Staley “recklessly approved” letter sent by Barclays to the regulator containing “two misleading statements.” Independent
🌎 Ex-F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone to pay $800 million over tax fraud. The 92-year-old appeared at London's Southwark Crown Court and pleaded to one count of fraud by false representation, just over a month before he was due to stand trial. Guardian
🌎 23andMe Sued After Hacker Claims Massive Data Breach Impacting Ashkenazi Jews. Accounts connected to a number of celebrities, including tech luminaries Elon Musk, Sergei Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg, were allegedly compromised as well. Gizmodo
🌎 Brink’s Sues Air Canada After $17 Million Heist of Gold and Cash. Miami-based Brink’s accused the airline of “negligence and carelessness” in a lawsuit after a heist at a Toronto cargo facility netted thieves about 400 kilos of gold and $1.9M in bank notes. Messenger
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