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🎯 U.S. and UK Target Iranian Transnational Assassinations Network. The network is led by Iranian narcotics trafficker Naji Ibrahim Sharifi-Zindashti and operates at the behest of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security. U.S. Treasury
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🌎 Eying China, U.S. proposes 'know your customer' cloud computing requirements. The proposed KYC regulation was released on Friday for public inspection and will be published on Monday. "It is a big deal," Raimondo said. Reuters
📌 FinCEN Seeks Comments on BO Information to be Collected FinCEN
🌎 U.S. Seen Unlikely to Return All Venezuela Sanctions After Ruling. European firms like Eni SpA and Repsol SA are currently producing oil and gas, with operations secured by comfort letters extended by the U.S. Treasury. Bloomberg
🌎 President Biden’s got blood on hands after appeasing Iran for years. Biden has rewarded the ayatollah to the tune of $100B – including massive revenue from the non-enforcement of US oil sanctions over three years. NYP
🌎 Russia boasts it is beating sanctions, but its longer-term prospects are bleak. Russia is earning billions from oil and diamond exports, its military factories are working flat out, and many Russian banks can still access the global financial system. CNN
🌎 China-Born Businesswoman Charged Over Meth Flight Built a Web of Influence in Papua New Guinea. Mei Lin is a prominent member of Papua New Guinea’s business community and key player in audacious drug trafficking plot. OCCRP
🌎 Nancy Pelosi suggests Gaza protesters are 'connected to Russia' and should be investigated. Pelosi said she’d like to have the FBI look into the matter. CNN
🚩 The Hamas Networks in America GW Program on Extremism
🚩 Intelligence Lays Out Details of U.N. Agency Staff’s Links to Oct. 7 Attack WSJ
🌎 Trump’s $50M Mystery Debt Looks Like ‘Tax Evasion’. Donald Trump has long claimed he personally owed tens of millions to an obscure entity related to his Chicago tower. Daily Beast
🌎 TD Bank faces stiff penalty from FinTRAC for faulty controls to prevent money laundering. C$10M could be the biggest ever penalty slapped on a Canadian financial institution by the country's AML agency. Reuters
🌎 Ukraine’s security service arrests five people accused of $40M arms fraud. Two ministry of defense officials among those arrested over contract for mortar shells that never arrived. Guardian
🌎 The Jujitsu Champ Who Got Nearly $500M From Sam Bankman-Fried. Billions of dollars evaporated in the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX cryptocurrency empire. But one man sits on a massive pile of that cash. WSJ
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