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🎯 Trump Takes the Stand: The $250 million lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general’s office alleges Trump and his co-defendants committed repeated fraud in inflating assets on financial statements. CNN
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🌎 Why Banks Are Suddenly Closing Down Customer Accounts. Banks generally won’t say how often they are closing accounts, and they’re not tracking how often they get it wrong. But federal data offer clues. NYT
🌎 Frontline Facilitators: How Secretive UK Partnerships Supply Wartime Russia. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, UK LPs have been named as trade intermediaries in thousands of records detailing imports into the belligerent state. Bellingcat
🌎 FinCEN and the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Issue Joint Notice and New Key Term for Reporting Evasion of U.S. Export Controls Globally. The notice emphasizes the importance of financial institutions applying a risk-based approach to trade transactions and remaining vigilant against evasion efforts. FinCEN
🌎 German Universities’ Collaboration With IRGC And Hezbollah-Affiliated Iranian University Advocating Terror Attacks On Israel. Through the DAAD German Academic Exchange program, German taxpayer funds have facilitated these suspicious partnerships. UANI
🌎 China Backed Nuclear Sanctions on North Korea – China Also Helps North Korea Evade Them. Chinese middlemen launder the proceeds of North Korean hackers’ cyber heists while Chinese ships deliver sanctioned North Korean goods to Chinese ports. Time
🌎 House passes bill aimed at expanding Iran oil sanctions. Iran has backed Hamas for decades, though U.S. officials have not confirmed whether Iran was directly involved in an October attack on Israel. Hill
🌎 How Russia Games Oil Sanctions for Big Profits. Moscow circumvents the G-7 oil-price cap by moving crude on a fleet of aging tankers on which sanctions have limited traction. WSJ
🌎 New UK transparency laws will target money launderers and fraudsters, but advocates warn ‘loopholes’ remain. The sweeping reforms seek to stem the flow of dirty money through the U.K. But experts say they may not be “the panacea” lawmakers claim. ICIJ
🌎 Why Do Young Americans Support Hamas? Look at TikTok. The app is digital fentanyl made by China. And it is brainwashing our youth against the country and our allies. Free Press
🌎 Ethereum Insider Drops Bombshell: ETH Founders’ Fraud Bigger Than FTX Fraud. Ethereum founders have allegedly orchestrated fraudulent activities regarding the ETH blockchain that exceed the scale of the actions committed FTX. Bitcoinist
🌎 China Unleashes Crackdown on ‘Pig Butchering.’ (It Isn’t What You Think.) Beijing is going after scam mills that operate out of secretive, dystopian compounds and swindle people worldwide. WSJ
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