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Bogotá Bombshell, Texas Poker Probe, and Super Smuggling
Illicit Edge - Edition for March 21, 2026
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Greetings! It’s Saturday March 21, and we’re tracking top stories to take you through the weekend: The president of Colombia has just been labeled a “priority target” for his drug ties by the DEA, Millions in cash, undercover agents: Inside a Texas poker club probe, Super Micro co-founder indicted on Nvidia smuggling charges leaves board, Russia's Shadow-Fleet Kingpin Is Back in Business, and much more…
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🎯 FEATURED STORY
The president of Colombia has just been labeled a “priority target” for his alleged drug ties by the DEA. In recent months, prosecutors in Brooklyn and Manhattan have been questioning drug traffickers about their ties to Petro and specifically about allegations the Colombian president’s representatives solicited bribes to block their extradition to the United States. Fortune
🔥 TOP STORIES
Millions in cash, undercover agents: Inside a Texas poker club probe Austin American-Statesman
Super Micro co-founder indicted on Nvidia smuggling charges leaves board CNBC
Russia's Shadow-Fleet Kingpin Is Back in Business Wall Street Journal
U.S. eases Iranian oil sanctions in scramble to contain energy prices, handing Tehran a boost NBC News
Belarus releases 250 political prisoners in a deal with the U.S. to lift some sanctions AP News
US judge strikes down rule targeting money laundering in real estate Reuters
Questions swirl around US plans for record $15B Prince Group crypto seizure ICIJ
TD Bank Pushed by New Jersey Judges on Money Laundering Secrecy Bloomberg
Iran's Kill Network Ran Through Toronto The Bureau
Deepfakes and an elite hacker school: How cybercrime is growing as a source of income for North Korea El País
A U.S. Citizen Now Runs Mexico's Top Drug Cartel—and Targeting Him Is Complicated Wall Street Journal
SEC Targets Auditing 'Bad Actors' With New Enforcement Team Bloomberg
Spylandia: How a Stretch of Florida Real Estate Has Become a Covert Corridor for Chinese and Russian Spies Vanity Fair
FBI updates Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list Newsweek
IN THE NEWS
🚩 RUSSIA & CHINA
Is Russian Fuel Headed for Cuba, Testing the U.S. Blockade? The New York Times
U.S. says Cuba is prohibited from taking Russian oil as two tankers head to island CNBC
How China opened the door to creating a direct rival to US payment systems South China Morning Post
Second iOS exploit kit now in use by suspected Russian hackers Cyberscoop
🚀 SANCTIONS & TERROR
Children of Iran's regime leaders are educating America's students at colleges from New York to Los Angeles New York Post
FBI seizes website tied to Iranian cyberattack on U.S. company NBC News
Terror group planned India hits, backed Myanmar rebels Times of India
U.S. Lifts Fertilizer Sanctions on Belarus as Iran War Causes Price Surge DW
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💸 CORRUPTION & FINANCIAL CRIME
State records show 89 hospice companies at one Los Angeles office plaza. We went to look for ourselves. CBS News
French tycoon Bolloré to face corruption trial over elections in Togo and Guinea AFP
Slovenia corruption scandal deepens as Prime Minister Robert Golob urges EU probe Euronews
FBI arrests 11 in real estate and loan fraud of Los Angeles elderly victims CBS News
Two Feeding Our Future defendants enter pleas, another rejects deal Star Tribune
US citizenship revoked for Nigerian native after federal fraud conviction Baltimore Sun
FBI fugitive found hiding in Wales has assets confiscated by police BBC
Man Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Streaming Services of $8M With AI-Generated Songs Rolling Stone
Costa Rican ex-Supreme Court judge sent to US in first-ever national extradition Reuters
🔐 CRYPTO & CYBER
Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild Wired
Crypto hacks average $25 million as largest exploits skew industry losses The Block
Bankrupt exchange FTX set to repay $2.2 billion to creditors this month CoinDesk
Zip Ties, Sleeping Pills And Pepper Spray: Canadian Crypto Millionaire Targeted In Foiled Madrid Kidnapping Bitcoin Magazine
Fake FBI Crypto Tokens Are Being Used to Threaten Tron Users Decrypt
A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta The Verge
Health plan information for over 2.6 million stolen from third-party admin Navia The Record
🚚 TRAFFICKING
A U.S. Citizen Now Runs Mexico's Top Drug Cartel—and Targeting Him Is Complicated Wall Street Journal
Sacramento police offer help to 41 sex trafficking victims in 16-day operation Sacramento Bee
At least 11 killed in raid on cartel in northern Mexico's Sinaloa Reuters
Leader of Ecuador's Los Lobos crime group arrested in Mexico City Reuters
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