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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
DOJ gets court approval to seize $1.2 billion tied to North Korea’s Binance hack. Federal authorities say they’ve taken infrastructure used in the FaceStealer scheme used to steal as much as $400 million in crypto assets. CoinDesk
Nvidia seeks a way forward without its co-founder after Jensen Huang resigns Associated Press
UK Arrests 349 in Nationwide Money Laundering Crackdown OCCRP
Customer busted for using AI image of burnt pizza to scam restaurant Popular Science
UK sanctions Russia’s Slavneft in latest move against oil producers Reuters
International Law Enforcement Operation Targeting Opioid and Fentanyl Traffickers on the Dark Web Results in 350 Arrests and the Seizure of Drugs, Weapons, and $234 Million DOJ
U.S. Military Officer Arrested in the U.K. Was Detained in Sting Operation Wall Street Journal
They Left Iran, but Now the Regime Is Seizing Their Assets to Silence Them New York Times
Mexican Prosecutor Who Helped C.I.A. Secretly Operate in His State Flees to the U.S. New York Times
Two Iranians convicted of spying for their country after entering Britain illegally Sky News
Romanian prosecutors indict former presidential frontrunner on fraud charges Reuters
Employee of Prestigious Law Firm Is Charged With Insider Trading New York Times
Kazakh Wealth Fund, Railway Chiefs Detained in Corruption Probe OCCRP
Before Megaspeed, there was Supermicro: The other Nvidia partner tied to China chip smuggling—and to Jensen Huang Fortune
Four tankers struck by explosions in Strait of Hormuz Reuters
More Than 1,300 Diplomatic Passports Missing in Vanuatu OCCRP
The U.S. Cut Cuba Off From the World’s Oil. Now It Runs on American Fuel. Wall Street Journal
Beijing Is Trying to Build a Chinese Rival for Insuring World Shipping Wall Street Journal
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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
Saudi Arabia puts pressure on EU to label Yemen’s Houthis a terrorist group Reuters
Iran-linked plots come into focus as U.S. pulls jets from British bases NBC News
Spanish judge suspends prominent ultra-right group Nucleo Nacional Reuters
Islamic State group-linked fighters kill 66 civilians in Ebola-hit east DR Congo Le Monde
Former Italian Red Brigades member escapes house arrest in Argentina while awaiting extradition Associated Press
Tracing Tehran-backed Afghan fighters from Syria to southeastern Iran AFP
Tim Scott summons Jensen Huang, Howard Lutnick to testify over Nvidia saga Politico
Speaker Johnson says Congress developing consensus on limiting chip exports to China Reuters
Commerce Department Finalizing Long-Awaited AI Remote Access Rule Information
EU To Add Wildberries CEO, Other Business Chiefs To Russia Sanctions Blacklist RFE/RL
EU Court Rejects Russian Billionaire German Khan’s Sanctions Appeal Moscow Times
China’s diaspora crackdown reaches deep into Europe Politico
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Democrats Open Probe Into Top Trump Fundraiser Meredith O’Rourke Wall Street Journal
Want to Short a Stock? Kalshi and C.T.F.C. Allow It as ‘Perpetual Trades.’ New York Times
Donald Trump Jr. Leaves Kalshi Adviser Role After Polymarket Investment Bloomberg
Texan central to Haiti’s arms deal with Dolly Parton’s nephew has history of fraud Miami Herald
DoppelCart Fraud Network Grows to More Than 250,000 Domains Recorded Future
Sabadell fined €16.5 million over real estate lending Reuters
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Police dismantle Gootloader, CastleRAT, StealC malware infrastructure BleepingComputer
India’s Financial Crimes Agency Searches CoinDCX, Delta Exchange Over Offshore Trades Decrypt
Binance has covered all $6.3 billion stolen in record crypto hack Quartz
Kazakhstan-linked hackers used AI agent to spy on Central Asian governments Record
Cyberattack on Fireworks AI allowed hackers to access Notion customers’ chat transcripts TechCrunch
Armed With AI, Hackers Now Exploit Cyber Threat Warnings Wall Street Journal
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Colombia: Eight killed in air strike targeting Gulf Clan gang BBC
The dirty money behind Canada’s deadly fentanyl trade Vancouver Sun
Colombia’s Drug Fight Upended by Drone Warfare as Gangs Advance Bloomberg
Inside the deadly cat-and-mouse game between human smugglers and the Coast Guard Miami Herald
Astonishing images of the huge cache of weapons, ammunition and cash seized by Spanish police from Kinahan-linked gang suspected in ‘abduction’ of soccer star’s brother Daily Mail
Firearms Smugglers Sentenced in Del Rio to Combined 39.5 Years in Federal Prison DOJ
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Nvidia is Preparing to Oust CEO Jensen Huang. Move follows company investigation into an affair with a Chinese woman alleged to be a spy. Wall Street Journal
EU envoys agree new Russia sanctions listings on banks, shadow fleet and misinformation Reuters
Federal jury convicts brothers in massive $240 million cattle investment fraud and embezzlement scheme DOJ
She claimed to be a rich L.A. aerospace heiress. Now she’s hiding from police in Dubai. Los Angeles Times
How a Vitol trader’s ties to JD Vance helped land a prized Venezuela oil contract Reuters
‘Fake CIA spy’ accused of £260m fraud was a paid FBI informant Times
Bessent confronts Lutnick in Situation Room over China inaction Axios
Kyrgyz Government Sold Mountain Resort to NGO Tied to Sanctioned Russian Influence Effort OCCRP
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Lutnick stalled Trump’s Nvidia–China chip curbs after Oval talks Axios
US companies shunning Russian diesel as tanker carrying that fuel idles off East Coast Reuters
Serbian manufacturer Grindex supplied Russia with with €27.5 million in machine tools, with some reaching defense plants Insider
Munich trade fair removes products from Chinese firm Harxon over the company’s links to Russian drone manufacturer Insider
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Iran designates Argentina’s navy and air force as ‘terrorist organizations’ Reuters
Lebanon detains Hezbollah members as PM pledges end to impunity Al-Monitor
Controversial London Islamic charity hosted British pro-Iran fanatic who was once filmed attacking anti-regime protesters Daily Mail
Islamic State group-affiliated rebels kill at least 22 in Congo’s eastern region Associated Press
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New York Man Sentenced to Over 10 Years in Prison for Laundering Proceeds for Elder Fraud Scam Network DOJ
Foreign National Sentenced to 7 Years in Defrauding American Taxpayers Out of Millions in Covid-Era Emergency Aid DOJ
Philadelphia police watchdog chair resigns after bribery charges Axios
Defense hints at motion for mistrial in Sheng Thao corruption trial after witness outburst ABC News
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Maersk confirms data breach as WhiteArmor ransomware demands $5 million BleepingComputer
How Hackers Steal Millions in AI Computing Power Wall Street Journal
Britain, France set out first guidelines for commercial hacking firms Record
Romanian intelligence agency says it identified Russian-linked cyber attack Reuters
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Drug ring busted, illegal aliens cuffed by Homeland Security Task Force in South Carolina Fox News
Dual Kazakhstani-Tajikistani Citizen Extradited from Egypt for Role in Alien Smuggling Conspiracy DOJ
The Shell of the Scam: A Journey through Cambodia’s Empty Crime Compounds Crisis Group
Bosnian Raids Smash Two Crime Rings, Net 15 Arrests 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
