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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
Treasury cuts off MEXC Global over alleged $16 billion in transactions linked to Iran, North Korea and Russia. On Friday, the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued an order against MEXC Global and said it was a money laundering concern. The Block
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits affair, board to launch investigation Axios
Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña impeached and arrested BBC
To Cross the Red Sea, Shippers Email Houthi Rebels. Read Their Inbox. Wall Street Journal
US Treasury sanctions Canadian money services firms over Iran-related transactions Reuters
The Shadowy Crypto Services Helping the Binance Hackers Launder Stolen Billions Wall Street Journal
US Treasury walks back crypto surveillance ‘travel rule’ proposal The Block
Rubio Warned Officials About Nvidia Chief’s Entanglement With Chinese Spy New York Times
Russian spymaster claimed to have toppled Austrian leader Telegraph
Trump Admin Weighs Executive Order Attaching Terrorist Label to Some Nonprofits, Suspending Tax-Exempt Status Wall Street Journal
U.S. Cleared Nvidia Chips to Chinese Firms With Empty Offices and Troubling Ties New York Times
Telecoms entrepreneur behind ‘breathtaking fraud’ hit with freezing orders Financial Times
Researchers Identify Suspicious Activity on Kalshi and Polymarket Before Times/Siena Poll Release New York Times
US Central Command announces $20M reward for info on Iranian nuclear program Times of Israel
FATF Recognizes Effectiveness of U.S. AML/CFT System, Advances Key Illicit Finance Initiatives U.S. Treasury
Turkey court jails former minister in funds probe Reuters
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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
Greek national pleads not guilty in UK court to assisting Iran Jerusalem Post
Deadly mass shooting in Poland investigated as terror act ABC News
Sweden charges man with planning Daesh terror attack on school Arab News
North Korea’s fake IT worker scheme takes dangerous turn as new threats emerge every day Fox News
Self-styled ‘king of Germany’ goes on trial accused of heading criminal group BBC
From incels to rioters: How economic insecurity and psychological alienation have fueled a surge in youth extremism across Europe Insider
China’s Top Spy Agency Recruited Woman Who Targeted Jensen Huang New York Times
Macau ex-lawmaker sentenced to 12.5 years in prison in city’s first national security trial Reuters
Report alleges China linked to at least 18 overseas police stations in Canada CTV News
Europe’s Sanctions on Russia: Riddled With Loopholes CEPA
China central bank probes Solana after Shanghai shutdown Protos
Terror tsar: China’s AI bot is rewriting history Telegraph
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Former FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Stealing $2.5M in Crypto From 35 Investigations Decrypt
U.S. prediction markets regulator issues demand that clashes directly with courts CoinDesk
Kalshi court losses pile up as judges refuse to block state gambling laws Ars Technica
Fraudster convicted for stealing widow’s home — first under new deed theft law New York Post
Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies are undermining Trump’s peace efforts Washington Examiner
When Indonesia’s police bugged the President Asialink
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North Korea’s army of world-class hackers is secret weapon that took down Binance Reuters
Someone Is Causing Chaos Across Europe. The Question Is: Who? Wall Street Journal
Crypto debit card provider Gnosis Pay breach exposes card numbers, home addresses and linked wallets CoinDesk
Cyberattack wipes cloud data at major Russian hosting provider Beget Record
Hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools found publicly exposed to the web TechCrunch
Hot fridges, a fake nuclear alert and a $6bn heist: are we in the foothills of a hacking epidemic? Guardian
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Expanding on naval blockade, US military looks to restrict Iranian land commerce Reuters
Haiti PM says gang leader Mathias Saintil is dead Reuters
Mexican Border City Mayor Kidnapped by Cartel Gunmen During Family Trip Breitbart
Border Patrol seizes nearly $10M in cocaine during back-to-back California stops Fox News
British businessman accused of spying for China tried to hire former Met Police detective to dig up intelligence on top MPs who were critical of Beijing Daily Mail
Pakistan: 273 Arrested at Karachi Call Centre Scamming Americans Ministry of Cyber Affairs
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Chainalysis Breach Exposes All Users’ Credentials, Forces Shutdown of Key Services. Chainalysis said it has implemented additional proactive monitoring systems to detect unusual activity, adding it took the Know Your Transaction (KYT) user interface and API offline, alongside other address screening products and the login page. Hacker News
Treasury Targets Global Scam Networks and the Corporate Infrastructure That Enables Them U.S. Treasury
Opium Is Back in Afghanistan Diplomat
Peru airport thwarts plot to smuggle 3,000 tarantulas in dirty socks AFP
Mexican judge arrested, accused by U.S. of taking bribes to free accused drug trafficker linked to Olympian Ryan Wedding CBS News
Ex-FBI agent set to plead guilty to stealing $1 million in crypto Washington Post
Three Foreign Nationals Arrested And Charged With Scheme To Use Super Intelligence To Defraud Companies Of $129 Million DOJ
Ecuadorian Politicians, Business Executives, And Narcotraffickers Arrested For Narcotics Importation And Weapons Offenses DOJ
Paraguayan President Santiago Peña steps down after bank collapse Associated Press
US sanctions Chinese firms over alleged military supplies to Cuba South China Morning Post
World Bank Says Corruption Cost Kenya $900 Million on Railway Bloomberg
Iraq Jails Ex-Oil Boss for Eight Years Over $119M Kickback Scheme OCCRP
Webull Faces $4.2 Million Penalty for Gaps in Identity Verification Bloomberg
Inside the IRGC-linked corporate network controlling Iran’s internet Iran International
Combating End-to-End Illicit Financial Flows Linked to Scam Compounds: Applying the FATF Toolkit to the Fraud Epidemic FATF
The Confessions of an AI Fraud Kingpin 404 Media
Beef giant JBS and its financial backers face coordinated transnational legal actions alleging money laundering GLAN
Democrats gearing up to probe JPMorgan’s relationship with Epstein Reuters
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Putin seizes Russian operations of Japanese tobacco giant JTI Euronews
Ex-Politburo member Ma Xingrui’s corruption charges extend to end of last century South China Morning Post
Chinese AI lab Moonshot turned to Europe for Nvidia Blackwell access amid U.S. China curbs CNBC
Poland detains six over suspected illegal shipments of weapons components to Russia Insider
Owners of seized Russian oil tanker claim U.S. improperly sold ship for scrap metal NBC News
Trump’s diesel deal with Putin in shambles after Russian tankers turn away from US due to sanctions Independent
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Disrupting Iran’s Pursuit of Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems U.S. State Department
Switzerland follows EU in lifting sanctions on billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman, but adds restrictions on 254 entities Insider
U.S. allows Hungary’s MOL to prepare for purchase of Russian stake in Serbian oil company NIS Insider
UK Funds AI Program With Qatar Charity, Previously Linked to Alleged Hamas Financing Jewish Onliner
CAIR-Florida suspends operations after court makes terror tag stick Washington Times
ISIS Activity After the U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq and Syria Soufan Center
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Ukraine fires two senior security officials amid corruption probe into scam call centers Record
L.A. businesswoman indicted in alleged $18-million COVID fraud scheme Los Angeles Times
‘Squad’ Alum Cori Bush Registers as Paid Foreign Agent, Will Lead Anti-Israel Propaganda Tours of West Bank for Shadowy NGO Free Beacon
More Than $11 Million In Nvidia Hardware Stolen From Truck That Left Oakland SFist
Arkansas Sues Kalshi, Joining a Growing List of States Targeting Prediction Markets Decrypt
Scammers are waiting to swindle new internet users. How do we protect them? BBC
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French bank Credit Mutuel Arkea says €100 million missing after cyberattack Reuters
India flags Chinese-linked AI tools in hacking campaign against financial firms Reuters
DigiCert data breach exposes customer information, identity documents BleepingComputer
Harden cooling systems now, feds warn critical infrastructure operators amid attacks Record
Binance Subpoenas Target Kevin O’Leary, Michael Lewis in FTX Row Bloomberg
Hacking on Autopilot: Inside ARTEX Cybercrime Campaigns Check Point Research
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Rewards up to combined $50M for three Tren de Aragua leaders following Homeland Security Task Force investigation DOJ
Lured into an online scam network, an African man spent almost a year in Cambodia trying to go home Associated Press
The Gulf Cartel’s Mega Narco-Blockade and Extortion Racket CrashOut
Carved to Conceal C4ADS
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
