Hello Sunday! It’s March 15, and we’re tracking top stories to take you through the weekend: U.S. sanctions network that laundered $800 million in crypto for North Korea, Turkey's Halkbank hires EY to review sanctions, anti-money laundering compliance, Pentagon headhunting Goldman, JPMorgan bankers for 'Economic Defense Unit', U.S. offers $10M reward, right to move to America for information on 10 Iranian leaders, and much more…

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U.S. sanctions network that laundered $800 million in crypto for North Korea. The Treasury Department said North Korea infiltrated IT workers into U.S. businesses and channeled their wages back to the country to fund weapons of mass destruction programs. CoinDesk

🔥 TOP STORIES

Turkey's Halkbank hires EY to review sanctions, anti-money laundering compliance Reuters

Pentagon headhunting Goldman, JPMorgan bankers for 'Economic Defense Unit' Semafor

U.S. offers $10M reward, right to move to America for information on 10 Iranian leaders NY Post

DOJ Probes Iran's Use of Binance to Evade Sanctions WSJ

Trump Removes Sanctions on Russia to Help Oil Flow Amid Iran Conflict NYT

Stryker: Iran Expands War With Major Cyberattack Against U.S. Company Krebs

Inside the Binance accounts internal investigators say helped transfer more than $1 billion to Iran-linked entities Fortune

Binance sues Wall Street Journal over reporting on Iranian sanctions Guardian

Hong Kong arrests hedge fund and brokerage staff in $300M insider trading probe FT

Ransomware incident responder gave info to BlackCat cybercriminals during negotiations The Record

The Tycoon Who Had a Secret Life as a Scam Kingpin Bloomberg

14 million doses of fentanyl seized from secret drug lab in Mexico CBS News

Turkey, Central Asia Look To Slovakia To Get Russian Oligarch Usmanov Off EU Sanctions List RFE/RL

Scams could now cost Americans $119 billion a year NBC News

🚩 Exclusive: Sigma360 raises $17.3M to automate compliance work Axios

🚀 SANCTIONS

Investigation may be looking at whether Roman Abramovich's Chelsea sale cash is 'proceeds of crime' Guardian

Trump eases Venezuela sanctions on oil, fertilizer to blunt Iran war costs Axios

To Squeeze Iran, Trump Reaches Into the Geoeconomic Toolkit WSJ

G7 leaders agree not to release oil reserves Semafor

🚩 RUSSIA & CHINA

Great-Granddaughter of Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev Branded 'Foreign Agent' Moscow Times

Record 155 Russians Make Forbes Billionaires List Moscow Times

Kenya arrests Chinese national over attempt to smuggle 2,000 queen ants BBC

Trump launches Section 301 trade probes into Mexico, China, EU, others CNBC

Russian Investigators Charge Dutch and Ukrainian Nationals Over Return of 'Scythian Gold' to Kyiv Moscow Times

💸 CORRUPTION & FINANCIAL CRIME

JPMorgan Sued for Allegedly Enabling $328 Million Crypto 'Ponzi Scheme' Decrypt

Belgian authorities mixed up EU lawmaker with namesake in Huawei bribery probe Politico

Authorities Dismantle Global Malicious Proxy Service that Deployed Malware and Defrauded Thousands DOJ

How Recovery Scams Retarget Victims of Fraud NYT

How to Protect Yourself From Financial Scams Targeting Older Adults WSJ

Inside San Francisco's Racialist Slush Fund City Journal

🔐 CRYPTO & CYBER

Criminals hijack thousands of devices to create never-before-seen cyber weapon The Independent

Polymarket taps Palantir AI to police sports betting before it's too late Fortune

Authorities dismantle global malicious proxy service deployed malware and defrauded DOJ

Has Cambodia really cut cybercrime by half? DW

Meta, Thai police shut down 150,000 scam accounts Axios

1 billion identity records exposed in ID verification data leak Fox News

Foreign hacker reportedly breached FBI servers holding Epstein files in 2023 Guardian

Bonk.fun hacked: Domain hijacked, crypto drainer planted CoinDesk

💥 TERROR

A new wave of young men are threatening America in the name of ISIS The Times

Who are Ashab Al Yamim? New Shi'ite terror group claims synagogue attacks across Europe Jerusalem Post

Antifa cell members convicted prairieland ice detention center shooting DOJ

First photo of Michigan terrorist who tried to murder toddlers -- as it's revealed his brothers were suspected Hezbollah NY Post

3 brothers of Iraqi descent arrested in Oslo for allegedly 'terror bombing' of US Embassy Fox News

Suspect in Old Dominion University shooting was convicted ISIS supporter NBC News

🚚 TRAFFICKING

One of South America’s Most Notorious Alleged Drug Traffickers is now in U.S. Custody DEA

Trump administration opposes Maduro's request to dismiss drug trafficking case NBC 

Europol leads international operation against environmental crime and waste trafficking Europol

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