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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
Wallet Linked to Drift Exploit Sends $61 Million in Ethereum to Tornado Cash. The North Korea-linked attacker behind April’s $295 million Drift heist pushed 25,700 ETH through the mixer in two hours, and still controls roughly $198 million more. Decrypt
‘It really would open the door’: Lawyers see Maduro betting case as test for future prosecutions Politico
Global ‘Chaos Inc’ grows to 101 groups with plans for new rounds of demonstrations Fox News
ISIS militants slaughter up to 70 civilians, with some burned alive, amid growing clashes with Al Qaeda rivals in Mali Daily Mail
A Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. New York Times
Elon Musk Ordered Ukraine Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Kyiv Wall Street Journal
Feds raid NYC adult day cares in sweeping probe into Medicaid fraud involving money-laundering, kickbacks New York Post
FBI investigated whether Graham, Clyburn were involved in bribery scheme Hill
Russia buys ‘holiday homes’ around Nato bases Telegraph
CFTC Secures Federal Court Orders Requiring Former Long Island Resident and His Firm to Pay Over $288 Million for Operating a Commodity Pool Ponzi Scheme CFTC
Iran Strikes More Ship Engine Rooms in Ramp-Up of Hormuz Attacks Bloomberg
Trump to Offer Up to $30,000 for Tips That Expose Government Fraud Wall Street Journal
Two men re-arrested in RAF Fairford investigation BBC
The BookKeeper investigates FIFA’s ‘Forward’ fund: How it’s managed and who gets what The Athletic
Tether: Senator’s investigation misses positive work that’s led to lower Iran volumes CoinDesk
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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
IRGC Threatens Undersea Internet Cables in Strait of Hormuz IranWire
More Republicans break with Trump on Russia sanctions Semafor
Kallas buys time on EU response to US sanctions against the ICC Politico
Crude Loading In Iran Stopped In Late August, Tracker Says Daily Caller
Iran tells Munir it won’t allow any enriched nuclear material to leave country Iran International
Beijing blasts US sanctions on 5 Chinese firms tied to ex-Google engineer Associated Press
US nearing deal with Russia to free multiple jailed Americans ABC News
Vučić Rejects Russia Sanctions, Blames Foreign Powers for Protests OCCRP
China commerce ministry announces export controls for tunnel boring machines Reuters
Pentagon threatens universities that have ties to ‘foreign entities of concern’ DefenseScoop
OpenAI once pushed to keep AI chips from China. Now it’s staying quiet. Politico
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Ex-cons, deadbeats oversee Detroit agency fleeced in $19M alleged fraud Detroit News
Eric Adams looms large over criminal bribery trial of former city official Politico
Feds subpoena Soros-backed Philly DA Larry Krasner after judge’s referral over pressure campaign New York Post
Winery owned by Ilhan Omar’s husband shuttered due to fraud Fox News
South Pacific Ponzi Scam “King” Noah Musingku Dies OCCRP
Migrants pretend to criticize Erdogan to gain asylum in Germany Telegraph
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Russian APT28 Breaches NATO Naval Shipbuilder in NATO Country, Deploys New Reflective Loader The Hacker News
Wolcott Man Pleads Guilty to Charges Stemming from Cryptocurrency Fraud Scheme DOJ
Ahold Delhaize: Cyberattack affects services across US and Europe BleepingComputer
The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs Ars Technica
Mastercard Brings Its Fraud-Fighting Tools to Stablecoin Payments Decrypt
Anonymous hackers leak alleged email archive with hundreds of thousands of messages from Alternative for Germany party Insider
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Pimping websites: Human trafficking ‘hidden in plain sight’ online BBC
Guatemalan National Extradited to the United States Sentenced for Involvement in 2022 Mass Casualty Alien Smuggling Event DOJ
Gangs in Haiti target foreign troops in the biggest attack since a new force began operations AP
Grand jury returns 13-count superseding indictment following Homeland Security Task Force investigation into Sinaloa Cartel‑linked weapons scheme DOJ
Nature Credits: Europe’s Next Financial Crime Blind Spot RUSI
Sarah Beth Felix / Elaine Dezenski / Yaya J. Fanusie / Himamauli Das / Jim Richards / John Byrne / Tom Keatinge / Ari Redbord / Brian Krebs / Hagar Chemali / Joe Robinson / Christina Rea / Andy Greenberg / Moyara Ruehsen / Richard Weber / Erin West / Casey Michel / Varun Vira / Amit Sharma / Ken Rijock / Andrew King / Shlomit Wagman / Archana Bae / Crystal Noe / Jonathan Schanzer / Howard Spieler
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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists /
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The Cover-Up: How a Trillion-Dollar Industry Launders Illegal Gold. The line between dirty and clean gold is an industry fiction. Wall Street and governments profit off gold from criminals, gangsters and those who exploit children. New York Times
U.S. prosecutors allege Saudi royal links in OpenAI bugging case CBS News
Iranian militia chief ‘plotting terror attacks from behind bars using coded language in prison calls and directing $1million transfers to proxies’ Daily Mail
Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site Krebs on Security
Imposing Sanctions to Protect Americans from Intellectual Property Theft U.S. State Department
Russian man linked to deadly London hospitals hack arrested BBC
Manchester City’s owners, a 482ft superyacht and links to ‘one of the biggest financial crimes’ in history The Athletic
Secret pay-for-play text rocks Trump White House Axios
China and Iran’s Influence Networks Join Forces Inside U.S. Newsweek
Four Defendants Sentenced to Years in Prison for Conspiring to Steal and Sell U.S. Treasury Checks Worth Millions DOJ
How a Massive Chinese Crime Ring Hacked Staples to Steal Millions 404 Media
ISIS-Inspired Terrorist Sentenced for Attacking Guards While Serving Sentence for Separate NYC Terror Plot DOJ
A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents The Verge
FATF Has Declared War on Fraud. Not All Its Allies Can Afford to Fight. RUSI
African island fights offshore gambling network linked to UK family Guardian
U.S. Treasury Identifies $270 Million in Suspicious Activity Linked to Federal Student Aid Fraud FinCEN
How Iran carries out violence abroad – from diplomats and assassins to criminal networks The Conversation
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Putin Floats a Summit With Trump and Xi to Discuss Ukraine Deal Wall Street Journal
Inside the shadowy world of anti-Putin sabotage from within Russia BBC
California woman indicted on charges she was spying for China NBC News
US bans DeepSeek AI from government use as tech tension with China continues BBC
Turkish crime group suspected in Starlink station arson in Poland Insider
Lithuania reports attempted arson attack on Starlink equipment used to connect with Ukraine Insider
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Supreme Court turns away appeal from alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed CBS News
Student who was recruited to ISIS by AI bot before travelling to Somalia to ‘become a martyr’ is jailed for 12 years Daily Mail
Feds lay out case against man charged in Mall of America attack plot in pre-trial hearing CBS News
Arizona man accused of plotting mass casualty attack on religious site with ‘cookbook’ tied to OKC bombing New York Post
‘Terrifying Precedent’: Dutch Hand US Data From Seized Anti-Fascist Server Decrypt
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Feds have DNA evidence that can prove Ilhan Omar committed immigration fraud, wed her brother New York Post
‘Catch Me If You Can’: The wild chase of a young French con artist Le Monde
11 Foreign Nationals Arrested in California on Federal Charges Alleging They Illegally Registered and Voted in U.S. Elections DOJ
Former Illinois subcontractor charged in $4.7 million COVID-19 unemployment benefits fraud scheme CBS News
Florida art dealer gets nearly 4 years in prison for scheme to sell fake Andy Warhol artworks Associated Press
Five Questions About What’s Behind Nigeria’s Romance Scam Industry OCCRP
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Police Say Scammers Used AI to Clone a Sheriff’s Voice 404 Media
Targeting Democracy: Pegasus and Mercenary Spyware Attacks on Serbian Pro-Democracy Figures Citizen Lab
Florida DMV hacked after police dept insecurely stored login info Ars Technica
Nigerian Man Sentenced To Eight Years For Hacking, Fraud, And Identity Theft Schemes DOJ
UK Trio Jailed Over Home Invasion in Failed Crypto Theft Attempt Decrypt
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Brazen French rioters start selling off their hauls of looted goods on Vinted – as buyers search ‘products from October 17th’ Daily Mail
AI Is Supercharging Cyber Scams and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia CFR
Terror groups are handing Venezuela’s critical minerals over to China Hill
Gilbert Bigio, Haitian Tycoon Linked to Gangs, Dies at 91 New York Times
The New Wild West of Gold Mining Is West Africa Wall Street Journal
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
