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🌎 Two Top Figures In Mexico’s Sinaloa Drug Cartel In U.S. Custody.  Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada Garcia co-founded the Sinaloa Cartel with Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman. Fox 

🌎 Michelin Red Star: The Russian chef-agent who planned “destabilizing” acts at Paris Olympics.  For a highly trained Russian operative looking to cause havoc at an international sporting event, Griaznov hardly looks the part. The Insider

🚩 ISIS-K’s online recruitment poses security threat to West ahead of Olympics CNN 

🌎 North Korean charged in cyberattacks on U.S. hospitals, NASA and military bases.  For more than three months, Rim and other members of the Andariel Unit had access to NASA’s computer system. AP

💥 Rewards for Justice – North Korean Malicious Cyber Actor Targeting U.S. Critical Infrastructure U.S. State Dept

💥 North Korea-backed cyber espionage campaign targets UK military Guardian

🌎 RTX Sets Aside $1.24B to Resolve Government Probes.  The provision by the company formerly known as Raytheon covers the cost of settlements over bribery allegations in Qatar and government contracting disputes. WSJ

🌎 With $150B in Default, Maduro Needs Sanctions Relief Fast.  For Venezuela’s authoritarian President, hanging on to power might be the easy part. Bloomberg

🌎 Manhattan DA urges judge to reject Trump’s bid to toss out hush money conviction.  If the judge leaves the conviction in place, he will sentence Trump on Sept. 18. Politico 

🌎 Some U.S. states are purging Chinese companies from their investments.  The quest to halt investments in Chinese companies comes as a growing number of states also have targeted Chinese ownership of U.S. land. AP

🌎 How Citi’s error-riddled loan reports led to a $136M fine.  Penalty shows how chief executive Jane Fraser is struggling to resolve chronic issues plaguing the bank. FT

🌎 U.S. Sanctions Rebel Group ‘Seeking To Overthrow’ DRC Government.  The Congo River Alliance has been “driving political instability, violent conflict, and civilian displacement.” AFP

🌎 Prada and Dior counterfeits are soaring in popularity because Gen Z is trying to ‘achieve a sense of social equality’.  Paris police have been hard at work trying to prevent a flurry of counterfeit operations during the Olympics. Fortune

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RUSSIA & CHINA

🚀 Russia, China turn to digital payments as sanctions hamper bilateral trade Reuters

🚀 Moscow impedes ‘anti-Russian’ YouTube Politico

🚀 The Secret Russians at the Paris Olympics WSJ

🚀 Ukraine asks Hong Kong not to let Russia circumvent sanctions Reuters 

🚀 U.S. Must Crack Down on Illegal Vapes From China Bloomberg

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CORRUPTION & FINANCIAL CRIME

💸 Maersk Settles with U.S. DOL in Whistleblower Retaliation Case gCaptain

💸 How ‘carbon cowboys’ are cashing in on protected Amazon forest WaPo

💸 ANZ Fires Traders Amid Alleged Dealing Misconduct Bloomberg

💸 Altice Co-Founder Pereira to Recover His Passport Bloomberg

💸 Most Europeans say corruption is rife in their country Politico

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CRYPTO & CYBER

🔐 Data breach exposes US spyware maker behind Windows, Mac, Android and Chromebook malware TechCrunch

🔐 Phish-Friendly Domain Registry “.top” Put on Notice Krebs

🔐 WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling Computer Weekly

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TRAFFICKING

🚚 Fentanyl’s Deadly Chemistry: How Criminals Make Illicit Opioids Reuters

🚚 CCP Fentanyl Policy Working Group Meeting Select Committee

🚚 Andrew Tate’s defamation lawsuit against human trafficking accuser can proceed AP

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RESEARCH AND MULTIMEDIA

📘 Ecuador’s Risky War on Narcos New Yorker 

📘 New $72K Migrant Smuggling Routes to the U.S. Start With Charter Flights Reuters

📘 Money Laundering National Risk Assessment Singapore MAS

📘 A better anti-corruption machine Brookings

📘 Ransomware Victim Insights RUSI

📘 Standards and interoperability: The future of the global financial system Atlantic Council

📘 U.S. Foreign Extortion Prevention Act: New Tool in the Fight Against Global Corruption TI 

📘 How We Uncovered the Modus Operandi of Criminals Smuggling Illegal Gold out of Venezuela Pulitzer Center

📘 Illicit Drugs Are Undermining Pacific Security USIP

ILLICIT EDGE INSIGHTS

📌 China’s Oppression of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang

📌 How Are U.S. Financial Sanctions Developed?

📌 Top 10 Ways Iran Supports and Empowers Hamas

📌 Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program: A Dangerous Evolution

📌 Top 10 Ways Money Launderers Are Caught Red-Handed 

📌 What are the Top 10 Books on Corruption, Kleptocracy, and Illicit Financing?

📌 What Are 10 Ways China Is Stealing Intellectual Property?

📌 These are Mexico’s Most Powerful Drug Cartels

📌 The Hypocrisy of Labeling Terrorists as ‘Militants’

📌 Sanctions and the IRGC: How Iran’s Paramilitary Group Profits from Economic Hardship

📌 What are the Arguments For and Against ESG?

VIDEOS

INFLUENCERS

Kim Zetter / Brian Krebs / Nicole Perlroth /
Josh Rogin / Ellen Nakashima / Matt Levitt /
Clarissa Ward / Gary Kasparov / Joseph Cox / Mark Dubowitz
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya / Bill Browder / Jen Easterly /
Zack Kopplin / Laura Shin / Dmitri Alperovitch / Tom Keatinge
Catherine Belton / Nazanin Boniadi / Chris Krebs /
Kevin Hall / Farnaz Fassihi / Kevin Collier / Patrick Howell O’Neill /
Michael McFaul / Jonathan Schanzer / Catalin Cimpanu /
Liza Lin / Enes Kanter FREEDOM / Bianna Golodryga

RESOURCES

Financial Action Task Force /
Egmont Group /
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project /
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists /
Money Laundering Watch/
C4ADS /
Combating Terrorism Center /
Royal United Services Institute /

PODCASTS

🎙 ️The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto Click Here

🎙 ️Crypto ATMs, a Senator Convicted, AUSTRAC Report, Timeshare Fraud, etc. AML Conversations

🎙 ️Sanctions and Russia’s Nuclear Diplomacy RUSI

🎙 ️Partnering with terrorists to fight terrorists Generation Jihad 

🎙 ️Allen Stanford: The Lord of the Lies Scamfluencers

🎙 Treasury in the Time of Russia Sanctions: Insights with Liz Rosenberg RUSI 

🎙 Sanctions Past, Present, and Future with OFAC Director Brad Smith Lawfare

🎙 FBI Director Wray talks takedown operations, nation-state hackers, and growing threats in cyberspace Record

🎙 Do sanctions still work as a weapon of war? Economist

🎙️Pirate of Prague Apple

IN OTHER NEWS

COMPLIANCE TOOLBOX

🔑 Cryptocurrency Regulation Tracker Atlantic Council

🔑 COMTRADE: Using Trade Data to Uncover Fraud and Smuggling OCCRP

🔑 2022 Rule of Law Index World Justice Project

🔑 Global Organized Crime Index Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

🔑 Anti-Corruption Helpdesk Transparency International

🔑 Flight Intelligence for Investigators Icarus Flights, C4ADS

🔑 Global Legislative Map: Violent Extremist and Terrorist-Related Online Content Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism

🔑 Basel AML Index Map Basel Institute on Governance

🔑 Scorched Earth: Using NASA Fire Data to Monitor War Zones Bellingcat