Greetings! It’s April 8, and we’re tracking today’s top stories: Treasury Proposes 'Fundamental' Reset of Anti-Money Laundering Rules, Attorney General Todd Blanche Announces Establishment of National Fraud Enforcement Division, How China Helped Iran Cushion the Blow of Sanctions and Fund Its War Machine, Inside a huge compound on Thailand-Cambodia border where 10,000 workers scammed people globally, and much more…

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🎯 FEATURED STORY

Treasury Proposes 'Fundamental' Reset of Anti-Money Laundering Rules. The proposal would give the U.S. Treasury Department a more central role enforcing regulations that require banks to screen for and report suspicious activity by their customers. FinCEN

🔥 TOP STORIES

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche Announces Establishment of National Fraud Enforcement Division DOJ

How China Helped Iran Cushion the Blow of Sanctions and Fund Its War Machine Wall Street Journal

Inside a huge compound on Thailand-Cambodia border where 10,000 workers scammed people globally AP

ICE arrested more than 800 people after tips from US airport security agency Reuters

The $5 Million Shadow Bank: California Man Admits to Funneling Cybercrime Cash OCCRP

Russia supplies Iran with cyber support, spy imagery to hone attacks Reuters

Iranian hackers launching disruptive attacks at U.S. energy, water targets CyberScoop

Binance Compliance Staff Leave Financial Crime, Monitoring Roles Bloomberg

How Russia uses Georgia as a tool to evade sanctions Le Monde

New Revelations Reignite Crypto Scandal Involving Argentina's President Milei New York Times

US court reinstates $656M judgment against PLO and Palestinian Authority AP

'Definitely a Sham': As Tariffs Climb, Trade Fraud and Accounting Tricks Proliferate New York Times

Russian government hackers broke into thousands of home routers to steal passwords TechCrunch

UBS Loses Legal Bid to Modify 1999 Holocaust Asset Settlement Bloomberg

🚩 RUSSIA & CHINA

Abramovich charity appoints diplomat with Starmer links in row over Chelsea billions The Telegraph

China targets Taiwan's chip prowess to evade global 'containment' Reuters

The Hidden System Turning Chinese Tech Companies into Military Suppliers War on the Rocks

ASML shares fall after proposed U.S. export curbs target an already fragile China market CNBC

ING Terminates Sale of Russian Business Moscow Times

UK trial of 2 alleged Hong Kong spies unveils transnational network Nikkei

Russia Faces Logistical Nightmare in Redirecting Yamal LNG to Asia Maritime Executive

🚀 SANCTIONS & TERROR

Iran's 10-Point Proposal Demands an End to Attacks and Sanctions Guardian

Bank Sepah outage disrupts salary payments to Iran's IRGC personnel Iran International

Trump crypto venture linked to firm tied to sanctioned figures The Times

📘 Featured Report: How Indonesian Law Enforcement Used On-chain Intelligence to Secure Convictions for Terrorism Financing TRM Labs

Eastern Libya's Top Money Man The Sentry

Rogue news site controlled by wealthy nepo baby posts vile Iranian propaganda claiming US attempted to kill downed pilot New York Post

💸 CORRUPTION & FINANCIAL CRIME

How a Youth Wrestling Club Became a Multimillion-Dollar Gambling Operation Wall Street Journal

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani will seek to dismiss US SEC fraud case Reuters

Romania Lifts Judicial Control on Tate Brothers OCCRP

UK accounting watchdog clears KPMG in Entain audit probe Reuters

Sarkozy says he owes France 'the truth' as he challenges conviction over alleged Libya funding AP

Ex-Head of Russia's Kursk Region Gets 14 Years in Jail for Graft Bloomberg

MN fraud: Final member of $14M family fraud scheme set to plead guilty FOX

🔐 CRYPTO & CYBER

Law firm Jones Day says hackers accessed client files Reuters

Inside an AI-enabled device code phishing campaign Microsoft

North Korea's hijack of one of the web's most used open source projects was likely weeks in the making TechCrunch

Hackers run amok, but fewer corporate victims are paying up as 'dealmakers' strive to outwit criminals New York Post

Convicted spyware maker Bryan Fleming avoids jail at sentencing TechCrunch

CISA orders feds to patch exploited Fortinet EMS flaw by Friday BleepingComputer

Hims & Hers says limited data stolen in social engineering attack Cybersecurity Dive

🚚 TRAFFICKING

'It started with a tipoff': how a Guardian investigation exposed child sex trafficking on Facebook and Instagram Guardian

Cuban-American Mafia leader wanted by FBI arrested in Mexico NewsNation

Four gang members sentenced to prison after "Operation Sob Story" investigates illegal firearms trafficking DOJ

Epstein in Paris: How a Sex Offender Hustled for Access to France's Elite New York Times

Ethiopian police arrest suspected trafficking gang ringleader BBC

Why Timor-Leste is at Risk of Becoming a Scammers' Paradise OCCRP

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