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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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Europe targeted by spiraling campaign of sabotage – and Russia is the chief suspect. The drones were just a dramatic start. August then brought a series of suspicious fires at defense facilities from Italy to Estonia. BBC
FinCEN Identifies Nearly $13 Billion Linked to Suspected Digital Asset Scams Operated by Overseas Scam Centers FinCEN
Chichester, NH Man Indicted for Operating a $25 Million Hawala DOJ
U.S. sanctions Turkish bank accused of enabling Iran as Bessent says he ‘hopes for’ no further bank penalties CNBC
US and Canadian court data exposed in Thomson Reuters breach Record
Misuse of informal money transfer networks is growing worldwide Reuters
White House pick to run Venezuela oil deal under investigation in two countries ICIJ
US pressure on Iran starting to tell, as sanctions and blockade bite Reuters
The fading efficacy of US shadow fleet sanctions Brookings
Kraken users were briefly locked out after a flood of sanctioned crypto transactions CoinDesk
Unfinished Business: Effective UK Anti-Money Laundering Supervision RUSI
Iran bets on shadow networks to evade US sanctions DW
Ecuador’s ex-president and Chinese ambassador seek to avoid jail over belt and road dam South China Morning Post
Executive of Indian Chemical Company Sentenced to 54 Months in Prison for Distributing and Smuggling Fentanyl Precursor Chemicals DOJ
FBI Offers Reward for Information Leading to the Arrest of Onur Simsek FBI
No Amount Too Small, No Fraud Too Large—And Counting: $3.1 Million Nigerian Money-Laundering Ring and Farmworker Visa Scam Busted DOL OIG
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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
US imposes new sanctions on Raul Castro’s grandson, Cuban companies AP
Iran bets on China to blunt Trump’s economic offensive Iran International
Armenian Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Smuggling Controlled Goods to Russia DOJ
The Shifting Landscape of Islamist Terror Since 2001 City Journal
Khamenei turns to IRGC old guard to shore up power Telegraph
IDF captures Hamas security chief, reports 29 Gaza ceasefire violations Aug. 19–Sept. 3 Long War Journal
Syria begins destroying Assad-era chemical weapons Reuters
The Fight to Get the U.N. Out of Lebanon Wall Street Journal
Disgraced ex-Reform Wales leader who took pro-Russian bribes must pay £22k BBC
Norway seizes Russian ship, sparking anger in Moscow, to compensate Ukrainian energy firm Reuters
Anthropic’s distillation battle turns to the dark web as China concerns swell CNBC
The ‘Covered List’: A Fraud Claimed ‘National Security’ Lawfare
Russian Government Seizes Control of Industrial Fan Producer Ventprom Moscow Times
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Convicted Malibu scammer added to FBI’s ‘Most Wanted Fraudsters’ list after fleeing U.S. Los Angeles Times
Foreign Nationals Indicted and in Federal Custody for Alleged $40M Timeshare Fraud DOJ
Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested WIRED
Three men conned pensioners out of £70m with fraudulent eco-friendly investments Telegraph
Wine Fraudster Gets 6 Years in Prison for $97 Million Loan Scam Bloomberg
ICE Agents Investigated for Sexual Assault, Bribery, Drug Smuggling Newsweek
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Tether sued over $42.4 million USDT freeze allegedly made months before U.S. warrant CoinDesk
US Becomes Top Target in RMM Phishing Campaign Spanning 46 Countries Hacker News
New bill cracks down on AI agents after Hugging Face breach Axios
The G7 tells industry to hurry up and prep for post-quantum encryption CyberScoop
Ledger sued for $500M over its many data breaches Protos
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Vietnam Sentences 11 to Death Penalty in Drug Trafficking Case New York Times
Man smuggled cocaine from Mexico to Georgia in fruit, electronic shipments CBS News
Mexican national coordinated large methamphetamine trafficking ring from inside Georgia jail cell CBS News
Balloons and tunnels: How Lithuania is tackling evolving tobacco smuggling Euractiv
Channel smuggling gangs resort to ‘mega-dinghies’ as crackdown limits small boat supply BBC
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UK fines Citibank London $6 million over Russia sanctions breaches. Citibank’s London branch processed 970 payments with a cumulative value of £19.7 million which OFSI said breached its regime, some of which were for accounts owned by state-owned shipping company PJSC Sovcomflot, while the bank also processed payments for designated Russian banks Alfa-Bank, PJSC Gazprombank and Credit Bank of Moscow. Reuters
Justice Department Seizes $560,000 in Cryptocurrency Donations for Hamas AP
The Russian Mafia: Putin’s Latest Weapon against Europe Internationale Politik Quarterly
Russia secretly helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles Financial Times
Australia Probes Western Union Over Money Laundering Risks OCCRP
House Passes Select Committee Legislation to Stop China’s Trade Crimes House Select Committee on the CCP
Four Uzbek nationals arrested in Korea over alleged Syria terror support Korea JoongAng Daily
Half of remote IT job applications now carry North Korean fraud patterns Fortune
Two sentenced in £266m gold money laundering-plot BBC
Cyber risk from frontier AI poses ‘most immediate concern’ to global financial system The Record
Following Up on the First Warning Shot in Operation Economic Outcast Washington Institute
Hackers without borders: serving Tehran, stealing on the side Iran International
China Ties: Ohio State agrees to $2.1 million settlement with Justice Department Washington Post
A Factory in Rural Ireland Is at the Center of a Dispute Over Russia New York Times
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Chinese shipper COSCO collects intel for Beijing with concealed equipment Reuters
Russian oligarch Yevtushenkov and relatives of high-profile officials profit from construction in occupied territories of Ukraine Insider
Putin transfers third major foreign asset to a Rostec-linked company that was created just a year ago Insider
The US is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them TechCrunch
Russia’s Sberbank Sees $46 Billion in Crypto Trading, Plans Ethereum and USDT-Backed Loans Decrypt
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Ukraine’s Sanctions Czar Lands In Washington As Russia Bill Hits House Wall Over Tariff Fears RFE
Israel warns it will retaliate if UK imposes sanctions BBC
U.S. Mysteriously Waives Sanctions Against Iran’s Bloodthirsty State Broadcaster, Again, Even as Network Puts Bounties on Trump Family’s Heads Free Beacon
EU to Consider New Sanctions Over Forced Deportation of Ukrainian Children United24
ISIS-inspired teen pleads guilty to preparing terror attack on Sydney Opera House ABC News Australia
Maine Teenager Is First Juvenile in the Nation to Be Federally Charged, Adjudicated, and Detained for Acts Related to Nihilistic Violent Extremist Groups in the 764 Network FBI
Iranian-backed militia in Iraq sets ‘conditions’ for disarmament Long War Journal
Polish Student Charged Over Alleged ISIS-Inspired Christmas Market Attack Plot Khaama Press
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s Aggressive Campaign to Direct and Inspire Attacks in the West Militant Wire
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FBI Charges Two In $1.3 Million Pig Butchering Fraud Targeting 26 Women Forbes
A $140 Million Ponzi Fraud Is Haunting Georgia GOP Ahead of Midterms Wall Street Journal
From a $4.2 billion FIFA deal to a possible criminal case. Trail leads to Miami. Miami Herald
Nigeria’s EFCC chief has fired 40 of his anti-corruption agents for ‘being corrupt’ BBC
Former Loretto Hospital CFO pleads not guilty in $290 million COVID-19 testing fraud scheme CBS News
Uganda Arrests 16 in $4M Fake Gold Scam OCCRP
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Iranian cyber spies target aviation, fintech developers with new malware The Record
Singapore Advances Stablecoin Rules as Global Adoption Picks Up Bloomberg
Five Venezuelans Plead Guilty in US Court to ATM Jackpotting SecurityWeek
Aesto Health says data breach affects over 9.5 million patients BleepingComputer
Malicious Cyber Actors Gain Access to Victim Accounts Through Consent Phishing FBI
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DEA temporarily makes kratom-related compounds Schedule I substances CNN
ICE nabs over 2K illegal migrants across NY in ‘Operation Rotten Apple’ New York Post
Australia’s ‘shameful’ cocaine habit prompts $600m Pacific package Sydney Morning Herald
Spain Arrests Germany’s Most Wanted Drug Trafficker OCCRP
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
