Greetings! It’s July 23, and we’re tracking today’s top stories: Cocaine worth $317m seized in Liberia's biggest-ever drugs bust, Investigators search Deutsche Bank headquarters over legacy tax trades, Telegram plans 'largest rollout of a non-custodial crypto wallet in human history', The U.S. Puts Once-Unthinkable Ideas on the Table to Disarm Hezbollah, and much more…

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Cocaine worth $317m seized in Liberia's biggest-ever drugs bust. Investigators said they had recovered 3,971kg of processed cocaine during the raid, with an estimated street value of more than $317m. BBC

🔥 TOP STORIES

Investigators search Deutsche Bank headquarters over legacy tax trades Reuters

Telegram plans 'largest rollout of a non-custodial crypto wallet in human history' The Block

The U.S. Puts Once-Unthinkable Ideas on the Table to Disarm Hezbollah Wall Street Journal

Treasury Takes Largest Action Ever Targeting Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion U.S. Treasury Department

EU agrees on new round of sanctions against Russia DW

House panel subpoenas three far-left nonprofits as part of probe into Marxist millionaire Neville Singham Roy New York Post

A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots Wired

Nineteen found guilty of trafficking babies in Indonesia and Singapore BBC

FBI arrests Indian man Harmanveer Singh in California in drug trafficking case Indian Express

OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models TechCrunch

Israeli Banks Threaten to Cut Off Palestinian Economy The New York Times

Zelle must face New York attorney general lawsuit over 'rampant' fraud Reuters

European Forces Intercept ‘Shadow Fleet’ Oil Tanker in Mediterranean Sea Moscow Times

Feds indict nearly 100 alleged members of TdA gang for hacking bank ATMs nationwide, including Colorado CBS News

Opening Statement of FinCEN Director Andrea Gacki before the Committee on Financial Services FinCEN

🚩 RUSSIA & CHINA

US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft TechCrunch

Russia Passes Crypto Law to Legalize Trading Under Tight Central Bank Oversight Moscow Times

Angola's BFA to join China's CIPS to meet growing yuan demand Reuters

US Congress weighs new tariffs, sanctions to counter China’s shipbuilding threat South China Morning Post

DJI ban: how the world’s biggest dronemaker is getting shoved out of the US Verge

💸 CORRUPTION & FINANCIAL CRIME

$100M New Jersey deli fraudster James Patten sentenced to 21 months in prison CNBC

‘Most wanted fraudster' captured in connection with $547M health care fraud NBC

Trump Targets State Officials Via New DOJ Public Corruption Team Bloomberg

Two Men Charged with $52 Million COVID-19 Tax Credit Fraud Conspiracy U.S. Department of Justice

Two of Puerto Rico's top government officials to step down as corruption allegations persist ABC News

Treasury hails success of anti-fraud process that flagged and prevented $99 million in payments to dead people Fox News

🌎 SANCTIONS & TERROR

Treasury Disrupts Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas Financial Networks U.S. Treasury Department

Senate adding Iran sanctions to Russia bill Politico

Bessent says Treasury tracked down ayatollah's 'money man,' plans to expose linked properties Fox Business

Spanish hotel chain ceases operations in Cuba under pressure from Washington Guardian

FinCEN Extends Comment Period for Proposed Rule To Amend the Definition of Huione Group FinCEN

Man charged with terrorism offence following investigation into alleged conduct at demonstrations Toronto Police Service

Rubio accuses Iran of flying IRGC personnel into Yemen as Houthi threat escalates Fox News

Somalia claims it killed senior Shabaab leader Long War Journal

Abu Hamza’s son Sufyan Mustafa seeks to return to UK after ‘fighting for al Qaeda’ The Telegraph

🔐 CRYPTO & CYBER

Investigations into Cryptocurrency Scams Result in Seizure of More Than $25M U.S. Department of Justice

Pakistan Launches Crypto Investigation Unit to Fight Money Laundering Decrypt

Washington judge blocks Kalshi contracts, cites state's gambling law Reuters

SEC charges Florida man and company in alleged $22 million crypto mining fraud scheme The Block

Iranian-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploit Programmable Logic Controllers Across US Critical Infrastructure CISA

Key Democrat will oppose crypto bill absent stronger ethics language Semafor

🚚 TRAFFICKING

Venezuela's Maduro gets June 1 trial date in drug trafficking case Associated Press

Northern Border Alien Smuggler Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Young Children in Transnational Human Smuggling and Money Laundering Scheme U.S. Department of Justice

Nine years for smuggling people from Mexico to Highland Park, turning them into 'indentured servants' Chicago Sun-Times

Migrant smuggling network using rental cars dismantled across the Balkans Europol

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