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🎯 U.S. transfers $50M in forfeited assets to Estonia for help in Danske Bank prosecution. Danske pleaded guilty in late 2022 to bank fraud conspiracy, forfeiting $2B to settle the U.S. investigation. Reuters

Top Stories

🌎 U.S. determines Sudan's RSF committed genocide, imposes sanctions on leader AP

🔥 POD: Mapping Illicit Business Networks With Varun Vira DESIGNATED

🌎 How Iran Moves Sanctioned Oil Around the World Reuters

🌎 Iran reports progress on accessing frozen assets despite sanctions Iran International

🌎 The Pentagon Says Tech Giant Tencent Is a Chinese Military Company. Its Founder Helps Yale 'Form New Partnerships' in China. Free Beacon 

🌎 China's Shandong Port, entry point for most sanctioned oil, bans US-designated vessels Reuters

🌎 Ted Farnsworth, Architect of Failed MoviePass Plan, Pleads Guilty to Fraud Variety

🌎 Chinese Actor Suspected to Have Been Lured into Myanmar Scam Center Found Bloomberg

🌎 Pig butchering victim sues banks for allowing scammers to open accounts Record

🔥 POD: Uncovering Pig Butchering with Erin West DESIGNATED

🌎 U.S. imposes sanctions on senior Hungarian government minister Guardian

🌎 Bitcoin Investor Ordered to Reveal Access Codes to $124M Bloomberg

🌎 CoinSwitch launches $70M recovery fund for WazirX hack victims Cointelegraph

🌎 BlackRock may exit woke business climate group Net Zero Alliance NYP

China & Russia

🚩 Chinese firms supporting Russia pose as Taiwanese to dodge sanctions RFA 

🚩 Putin’s Booming War Economy Poised for Soft, Bumpy Landing Bloomberg

🚩 BYD brought hundreds of Chinese workers to Brazil on irregular visas Reuters

🚩 New China spy revelations show why Trump is wrong to resist TikTok ban NYP

Corruption & Financial Crime

💸 U.S. Steel CEO calls for Trump to take fresh look at Nippon deal CNBC 

💸 Tensions rise in Venezuela as opposition leader González asks military to end Maduro’s reign CNN

💸 A Fugitive Businessman, Done In by One Law He Couldn’t Dodge NYT

💸 How FIFA corruption actually works BI

💸 U.K.'s anti-corruption minister refers herself to ethics watchdog NBC

Crypto & Cyber

🔐 Coinbase Granted Significant Advance in Court Clash With Gensler's SEC CoinDesk

🔐 Symbol Will Indicate When Connected Devices Are Cyber Secure Bloomberg

🔐 AI will supercharge cyber weapons within two years Axios

🔐 U.S. CFTC Chair Behnam Makes Departure Official CoinDesk

🔐 Green Beret who exploded Cybertruck in Las Vegas used AI to plan blast CNN

Trafficking

🚚 Shein's silence on China cotton use leaves British lawmakers in the dark on supply chain Reuters

🚚 Jordan and Syria to combat arms and drugs smuggling, Islamic State's resurgence Reuters

🚚 Mexico drops migrants in troubled resort as it disperses them far from US border AP

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