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DOJ and FBI announce a new task force to target Hamas over Oct. 7 attack. The task force, made up of prosecutors and FBI officials, also will investigate civil rights violations and potential acts of terrorism by anyone providing support or financing to Hamas. AP
Director Charged For Fraud In $11M Scheme Over Unfinished Netflix Sci-Fi TV Series Hollywood Reporter
Trump will make — or break — Europe’s Russia sanctions Politico
A genocidal militia in Sudan controls a key ingredient in Coke and Pepsi Bloomberg
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The $7B Defense Contractor Who Became One of America’s Biggest Tax Cheats WSJ
5 charged, new raids in Huawei corruption probe at EU parliament in Belgium AFP
Smugglers Found Guilty Three Years After 53 Migrants Died in Texas NYT
Ex-Credit Suisse Client Pleads Guilty to Hiding Money From IRS Bloomberg
Iran official exposes Tehran’s global assassination program as US trial of regime hitmen continues Fox
Mexico arrests MS-13 leader on FBI’s most wanted list CNN
UBS’s auditor warns over bank’s financial reporting controls Reuters
How Bribes Helped a Crime Ring Steal Thousands of iPhones From Porches WSJ
The Hidden Cost of Trump’s Trade War on China NYT
The $300B question: What to do with Russia’s frozen central bank money? AP
Former Putin-appointed governor on trial for breaching UK sanctions BBC
Trump-Putin call poses choice of sanctions or ‘escalation’ ABC
Thai delegation heads to China to check on deported Uyghurs RFA
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New Social Security anti-fraud rule will force more people to visit agency offices CNN
Miami leads U.S. in fraud. Romance scams cost Floridians $89 million Axios
Top DC prosecutor, who promoted false 2020 voter fraud claims, forms ‘election accountability’ unit AP
Trump picks Fed Governor Michelle Bowman to replace Michael Barr as Fed’s supervision head CNBC
Dozens of Wikipedia editors colluded on years-long anti-Israel campaign NYP
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The SEC’s retrenchment Axios
Crypto exchange OKX shuts down tool used by North Korean hackers to launder stolen funds Record
85M Newly Stolen Passwords Being Used In Ongoing Attacks Forbes
Who is sending those scammy text messages about unpaid tolls? Cyberscoop
Microsoft identifies new RAT targeting cryptocurrency wallets and more Record
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Egg smuggling from Mexico surges as prices in parts of US hit $10 per dozen NYP
Caribbean leaders seek clarity as US mulls sweeping travel bans Reuters
Venezuela to face more sanctions if it won’t take its citizens back Politico
National Guard members killed in cartel ambush Border Report
Sixteen Defendants Charged in Escondido Takedown of Drug Trafficking Network DOJ
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First 250+ migrant gang members from US arrive in El Salvador — where they’ll be held in a notorious mega-prison. The flights included 238 members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua, as well as least 21 members of MS-13, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, revealed Sunday morning. NYP
Trump’s New World Order Tests the Dollar WSJ
Huawei bribery scandal reignites anti-corruption fight in EU Politico
Ghillie suits and Maseratis: How Chilean gangs steal from America’s ultra-rich Telegraph
Inside the Chinese Region That Has Become a No-Go for Western Companies WSJ
US imposes sanctions on Thai officials after Uyghur men are deported to China AP
China, Russia and Iran call for end to US sanctions on Iran and the restart of nuclear talks AP
Trump toughens sanctions on Russian oil, gas and banking sectors CBS
Russian LockBit developer extradited from Israel, appears in New Jersey court Record
US weighing in on Lebanon’s next central bank chief Reuters
Trump Treasury Expands Financial Surveillance CATO
Vance expects a ‘high-level’ TikTok deal by the April 5 deadline NBC
AML Bitcoin creator convicted of wire fraud, money laundering Cointelegraph
‘As long he is breathing, I’m not safe’: romance fraud victim flees UK after jailed conman is freed Guardian
U.S. sanctions Sweden-based gang with links to Iran. Describing Foxtrot as one of Sweden’s “most notorious criminal gangs,” the U.S. Treasury and State Departments also placed sanctions on its leader Rawa Majid, with both agencies saying he had “specifically cooperated with the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security.” AFP
First-of-its-kind lawsuit alleges human trafficking by San Diego’s Bumble Bee Seafoods SDUT
North Korean government hackers snuck spyware on Android app store TC
Amid Turmoil, ActBlue Faces Call for Terror-Financing Investigation Free Press
Lindsey Graham to push ‘bone-breaking sanctions and tariffs’ to pressure Russia into peace with Ukraine Fox
Iran’s Khamenei Says Talks With Trump Will Lead to More Sanctions Bloomberg
Iran Compiling U.S. Terror List Newsweek
Why TikTok Should Be OnChain CoinDesk
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India arrests man accused of running $96B crypto exchange at request of US CNN
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‘Made in Russia’ goods are the new craze in China CNN
Russia’s ghost ships haunt Libya ICIJ
EU Delists Russian Oligarchs After Sanctions Pressure From Hungary And Slovakia RFE
Leak Reveals Russia Is Quietly Priming Bitcoin And Crypto For A Price Bombshell Forbes
G7 ministers unite to back Ukraine and warn Russia of sanctions Reuters
Banned Russian Channel RT Secretly Pays Video Bloggers Who Promote Kremlin Narratives OCCRP
Russian and European Officials See US Interest in Gazprom Ties Bloomberg
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DOJ is investigating whether Columbia University hid students sought by the U.S. AP
US Export Bank Quietly Approves $5B Loan to French Company With Ties to Foreign Adversaries, Sparking Conservative Criticism Free Beacon
Brooklyn man’s Seinfeld joke turns out to be multi-million dollar scam USAT
US Supreme Court allows FINRA proceedings against Alpine Securities Reuters
India to deliver US summons to Adani for alleged bribery Reuters
100,000 people rally in massive anti-corruption protest against Serbian government AP
The shocking story of the Olympic star who became a Hezbollah-linked crime boss Ynet
Americans lost billions more to fraud last year Axios
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California Man Sentenced for Using Bitcoin To Launder Dark Web MDMA Profits Decrypt
TON Surges 20% as Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Recovers Passport From French Authorities CoinDesk
Singapore prosecutors say US server fraud case involves $390M of transactions Reuters
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on the New Crypto Task Force CoinDesk
A New Era of Attacks on Encryption Is Starting to Heat Up Wired
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Iraq seizes more than one ton of captagon pills shipped from Syria Reuters
Long Island DA reveals 3 twisted ‘rules’ that made MS-13 a plague in the suburbs — ‘biggest, baddest, most violent gang’ NYP
Europol Bust Uncovers Ecuador-EU Drug Network OCCRP
From Mexico cartel safe house to US streets BBC
A Chance for Justice in a Notorious Drug War NYT
Authorities tout massive 50-pound fentanyl seizure in L.A.: ‘Our biggest bust yet’ LAT
Rio de Janeiro police demolish ‘drug trafficking resort’ in favela Reuters
How Donald Trump Can Win A War Against the Drug Cartels 1945
In This English Village, Asylum Seekers May Soon Outnumber the Locals Free Press
How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions MIT
Taskforce on Public-Private Partnership in Fighting Financial Crime in Ukraine RUSI
The Digital Asset Ecosystem in El Salvador: Challenges and Risks to Countercheck Financial Global Financial Integrity
Money Laundering from Environmental Crime: Typologies and Trends in Countries in the Amazon Region Fact Coalition
INTERPOL Financial Fraud assessment: A global threat boosted by technology Interpol
Sanctions by the Numbers: Comparing the Trump and Biden Administrations’ Sanctions and Export Controls on China CNAS
The threats posed by the global shadow fleet—and how to stop it Atlantic Council
