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Enforcement Drift: Chinese Money Laundering Networks Serving Mexico-Based Cartels. Beyond FinCEN Advisory FIN-2025-A003: Where Enforcement Has Moved and Where It Is Headed. Illicit Edge
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This Sprawling Chinese Refinery Is Bankrolling Tehran. China’s Commerce Ministry publicly told companies in May not to comply with the U.S.’s blacklisting of several Chinese refineries, including Hengli, over alleged purchases of Iranian oil. WSJ
Top drug trafficker “Macho Coca” and cartel member “Compadre” extradited to U.S. from Costa Rica CBS News
Binance Blocks Transactions With 14 Crypto Platforms After New EU Sanctions on Russia United24
The Iran War Is Now About Who Blinks First Under Economic Pressure WSJ
Russia developing a work-around to U.S. financial sanctions Washington Times
Trump wants more economic pressure on Iran. What are his options? Reuters
A $50 million hostage ransom funded al Qaeda’s Mali offensive Reuters
Gazan sham charities’ crowdfunding funneled cash to terrorists Times of Israel
Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Laundering Health Care Fraud Proceeds for Transnational Criminal Organization DOJ
A Green Light for Crooks Atlantic
Cartel-aiding Nevada man faces 70 years in prison for buying ‘military-style’ firearms New York Post
BAE Systems to pay $36m penalty after 104 violations of US arms export rules Guardian
DOJ, CFTC Investigating Iron Ore Trader Radiant World’s Deals Bloomberg
Former Tricolor CEO must face top criminal charge tied to auto lender bankruptcy Reuters
JPMorgan Ended Banking Relationship With Polymarket Over Regulatory Concerns WSJ
Kazakhstan alleges Big Oil corruption tainted $10.7 billion in contracts, delayed key oil project ICIJ
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Time to Stir the AML Pot FinCrime Unfiltered
Human Intelligence in Conflict Zones Coercive Capital
WISE and Monzo Penalties, and FinCEN Special Measures FinCrime Unfiltered
Tehran’s Tightrope: The Cost of Confrontation Coercive Capital
What Bessent’s economic isolation of Iran could look like Fortune
US considers new sanctions on Brazilian judge Reuters
RAF card in Moscow likely violates U.S. sanctions ESPN
Japan Weighs New Russia Sanctions After Putin’s First Visit to Disputed Kuril Islands United24
Inside Trump’s secret backchannel to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Axios
Iran offers $30,000 bounty for killing, capturing US soldiers Al Arabiya
Israel seizes vast Iran terror axis arsenal with surprising foreign origins Fox News
How The Far Right Is Recruiting Youth Online Vision of Humanity
Onslaught of Terrorism Tests Pakistan’s Capacity in Western Provinces Soufan Center
Chinese funding for pro-Palestinian marches to be investigated Telegraph
How an icy shipping route at the top of the world is bringing China and Russia together CNN
Australian firm embroiled in an FBI probe into alleged Chinese espionage Guardian
Arrests Of Top Figures In Russia’s Drone Industry Highlight Claims Of Wartime Corruption RFE/RL
GSA finds China-made tech labeled ‘Made in USA’ in federal procurement program, orders sweeping review Fox News
Leaked Files Reveal How Russian Missile Giant Uses Front Brands to Bypass Sanctions United24
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Prosecutors Focus on Four Businesses Tied to Dodgers Owner Mark Walter WSJ
Trump’s Justice Dept. Targets Smaller Fraud Cases NYT
Feds probe ‘mention markets’ amid White House Kalshi controversy NPR
GWG Fraud Lawsuit Against Holland & Knight Will Proceed WSJ
Iraq seizes another $26m cash and more than 60kg of gold as corruption sweep continues National
Drive Planning Fraudsters Sentenced to Federal Prison for Operating Massive $380 Million Ponzi Scheme DOJ
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Trump-appointed regulator OKs banking license for Trump-linked crypto firm Politico
Crypto wallet provider SafePal discloses data breach affecting nearly 40,000 users’ order information Reuters
Hackers arrested over €30M bank fraud exploiting service provider flaw BleepingComputer
French taxpayers’ data stolen in cyberattack Reuters
SEC to again delay ‘innovation exemption’ for tokenization amid Wall Street, White House concerns CoinDesk
Hacking group claims mass data theft from Shell, Philips, GE, Fiserv and dozens of others Reuters
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From clothing to yerba mate and cell phones: smuggled goods flood Argentina EL PAÍS
Former assistant Anoka County attorney helped operate sex trafficking organization CBS News
Alleged Mexico-Based Methamphetamine Trafficker Transported Back To The United States To Face Federal Charges DOJ
Inside “the Pool”: Fugitive arrested in scheme to control cross-border car trade CBS News
Orlando men convicted in Sinaloa Cartel-directed South Florida drug robbery plot Miami Herald
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Iran Lurching Toward ‘Severe Economic Collapse’ As War Takes Its Toll. Years of international sanctions and government mismanagement had already crippled Iran’s economy. But the war has pushed the country of some 90 million people to the verge of economic collapse. RFE
Ukrainians sue Ubiquiti over alleged support for Russia’s ‘human safari’ RBC-Ukraine
Hackers breach govt webmail while running parallel crypto fraud BleepingComputer
‘Cyber privateers’: Trump issues order allowing US companies to hack overseas groups under certain conditions CNN
Financial Institutions Flagged Nearly $5 Billion Linked to Suspected Human Smuggling FinCEN
Mexico expands anti-money laundering oversight with tighter controls on crypto, casinos and real estate EL PAÍS
Bessent says US to apply measures never seen on Iran Reuters
Cuban National Pleads Guilty to His Role in International Alien Smuggling and Money Laundering DOJ
Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald Issues Memorandum on National Fraud Enforcement DOJ
Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime The White House
Ukraine shuts down 94 fraudulent call centers, seize millions in cash BleepingComputer
US accuses more than 40 countries of helping China avoid Trump’s tariffs Financial Times
U.S. Sanctions Georgia-Based Cryptocurrency Company for Supporting IRGC FDD
Armenian Banks Tighten Checks on Transactions Linked to Russia Sanctions The Moscow Times
China’s top court highlights first Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law ruling in Shanghai South China Morning Post
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CCP Intelligence Official Buys Building Steps From White House Daily Caller
Harvard-China links unearthed as Congress finds 140 papers co-authored by CCP military universities Fox News
China ‘funding pro-Palestine marches in UK’ The Telegraph
Select Committee Investigation Exposing CCP Influence at Harvard University House Select Committee on the CCP
Professor’s Alleged Role in China Programs Leads to Ban From US Funding Bloomberg
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Family of American Murdered in Jerusalem Sbarro Bombing Sues Female Hamas Mastermind 25 Years After Massacre Washington Free Beacon
Colorado man who planned to join Islamic State group pleads guilty to federal terrorism charge Courthouse News Service
A bungled bomb plot in Poland exposed a spy – but whose spy was he? The Guardian
EU using interest from frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine on the battlefield Washington Times
China hits US with sanctions, drone export curbs ahead of Xi visit CNN
State Department revokes visa for Brazil’s ambassador to U.S. CBS News
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White House launches interactive map tracking billions in suspected fraud Fox News
Selena Gomez and her mental health startup accused of fraud CNN
The great transshipment scam The White House
Owner of suspiciously vacant adult daycare billed Medicaid $32M while donating to Kathy Hochul, other Dems New York Post
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Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack Ars Technica
Baltimore sues Kalshi and Polymarket, roping Coinbase, Robinhood and Webull into the fight The Block
New Mirai variant adds stealth capabilities to notorious botnet code Recorded Future News
“City-Forum” data-theft attacks target Salesforce, ServiceNow portals BleepingComputer
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6 men arrested on suspicion of running child human trafficking operation in Modesto CBS News
Why are so many influencers being killed by Mexican drug gangs? The Times
$238K worth of deadly fentanyl discovered stuffed in moped at California border crossing New York Post
What I Saw In Sinaloa The Atlantic
Trump has a border problem – but not the one he thinks The Telegraph
Trade-Related Illicit Financial Flows in Africa, 2013-2022 Global Financial Integrity
Do Export Controls Erode the United States’ Lead—Or Protect It? CSIS
Three Years of War in Ukraine: Are Sanctions Against Russia Making a Difference? CFR
Why does the U.S. use secondary sanctions, and do they work? DW
Teaching the Business and Art of Sanctions Circumvention RUSI
Understanding the Libra Case: Identifying Red Flags in The Crypto Assets Industry GFI
The next generation: Russia’s future rulers Atlantic Council
How overly aggressive bans on AI chip exports to China can backfire Brookings
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