Greetings! It’s April 17, and we’re tracking today’s top stories: Depleted Hamas Is So Low on Cash That It Can’t Pay Its Fighters, Russia’s Hidden Empire, Drug Traffickers from Kalamazoo County Sentenced to Decades in Federal Prison, North Korea Now Supplying Half of Russia's Artillery Ammunition, and Much More…

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🎯 FEATURED STORY

A Depleted Hamas Is So Low on Cash That It Can’t Pay Its Fighters. Israel has disrupted the Gaza militant group’s sources of cash and ability to distribute it. WSJ

🔥 TOP STORIES

Russia’s Hidden Empire Foreign Affairs 

Drug Traffickers from Kalamazoo County Sentenced to Decades in Federal Prison DOJ

North Korea is now supplying nearly half of Russia's artillery ammunition Reuters

The New Face of North Korean Sanctions Monitoring 38 North 

Treasury Targets International Bank of Yemen for Support to the Houthis U.S. Treasury

U.S. Tries to Crush China’s AI Ambitions With Chips Crackdown WSJ

US imposes sanctions on a Chinese refinery accused of buying Iranian oil AP

US lifts sanctions against key Orbán ally accused of corruption Politico 

White House plans to target university investments Semafor

Peru's ex-president and first lady sentenced to 15 years in prison BBC

Where kleptocrats go house-hunting .coda

Lebanon’s Ex Central Bank Governor’s Embezzlement Case Sparks Applause—and Doubts OCCRP

Declassified Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism DNI

💥 RUSSIA & CHINA

Nvidia kept China customers in the dark about new US chip clampdown Reuters 

How China Took Over the World’s Rare Earths Industry NYT

Serbia hands hundreds of passports to Russian elites tied to invasion of Ukraine The Insider

EU shelves idea of sanctions on Russian LNG imports Reuters

America’s Last Stand: China’s Smart Battery Dominance RCD

💸 CORRUPTION & FINANCIAL CRIME

NY AG James referred to DOJ for alleged mortgage fraud ABC 

India's Gandhis charged in money laundering case amid opposition outcry BBC 

Austrian banker loses fight against extradition to US on money laundering charges Reuters

Hearings Start in Italy’s Ferry Giant Corruption Probe OCCRP 

Behind closed doors, Kazakhstan challenges decades-old deal with $160B claim against Big Oil ICIJ

Arizona convicts 900 people, recovers $1.83B in pandemic unemployment fraud Fox

🔐 CRYPTO & CYBER

Apple Patches Two Actively Exploited iOS Flaws Used in Sophisticated Targeted Attacks Hacker News 

Trump Family’s Crypto Venture Nets $25M Investment From Firm Suspected of Fraud Rolling Stone

Visa-backed African unicorn Moniepoint tackles remittances, but is it late to the game? TC

🚚 TRAFFICKING

Belgian teens arrested with 5,000 smuggled ants as Kenya warns of changing trafficking trends AP 

Leaders of La Nueva Familia Michoacana and Atlanta-Based Money Launderer Indicted DOJ 

Smugglers' paradise: How US guns flow to gang-ravaged Haiti BBC

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