Greetings! It’s March 5, and we’re tracking today’s top stories: Kremlin agrees to broker US-Iran nuclear talks, Yale Law School scholar is member of US-sanctioned terror fundraising organization, U.S. Treasury sanctions 49 Bitcoin and Monero addresses connected to shuttered darknet site Nemesis, Trump gives Chevron 30 days to stop pumping oil in Venezuela, and much more…

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Kremlin agrees to broker US-Iran nuclear talks. Russia could help facilitate negotiations between Iran and the U.S. over Tehran’s nuclear program and its network of proxy groups across the Middle East. Semafor

🎯 TOP STORIES

Yale Law School Scholar Is Member of US-Sanctioned Terror Fundraising Organization Free Beacon

U.S. Treasury sanctions 49 Bitcoin and Monero addresses connected to shuttered darknet site Nemesis Block 

Trump gives Chevron 30 days to stop pumping oil in Venezuela over Maduro’s stalled reforms, migrant returns NYP 

Russia Smuggling US Plane Parts As Sanctions Ground Airliners, Jeopardizing Civil Aviation RFE

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Hackers launder most of Bybit’s stolen crypto worth $1.4B TC 

A $20 Billion Slush Fund – Paid by You to Progressive Nonprofits Free Press

Egypt’s Gaza plan excludes Hamas from future governance CNN

US Designates Houthis a Foreign Terrorist Organization Newsweek 

The Strategic Crypto Swindle Atlantic

Millions in Covid relief funds went to shadowy companies registered at a Wyoming storefront that hundreds of thousands of firms used as an address ICIJ

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🚩 RUSSIA & CHINA

Russia says normalizing ties with US will require lifting sanctions on Moscow Reuters 

China hits back at Trump with reciprocal tariffs, sanctions of US firms SCMP

Myanmar's head of military government in Russia for cooperation talks with Putin AP 

BlackRock to take control of ports in Panama Canal from Hong Kong firm as US worries over Chinese influence grow NYP

💸 CORRUPTION & FINANCIAL CRIME

Dozens of Canadians Are Charged in $21 Million ‘Grandparent Scam’ NYT

Trump vowed to leverage federal money to fight antisemitism. He's starting at Columbia. AP 

DOJ Cites Trump Order to Put Cognizant Execs Bribery Trial On Hold WSJ 

Socialite found not guilty in £200 million money laundering plot Independent

TD Cuts Top US Executive’s Bonus in Wake of Laundering Scandal Bloomberg

CFPB drops lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo over Zelle fraud CNBC

🔐 CRYPTO & CYBER

How North Korea cracked Bybit’s crypto safe to steal $1.5 billion in a record heist Fortune

Apple refuses to break encryption, seeks reversal of UK demand for backdoor Ars

Coinbase, Chainlink, Strategy Among Companies Attending Trump's Crypto Summit CoinDesk

Threat posed by new VMware hyperjacking vulnerabilities is hard to overstate Ars

🚚 TRAFFICKING

Florida AG conducting active criminal investigation against the Tate brothers CNN 

US Sentences Key Aryan Brotherhood Member in Fentanyl Case OCCRP 

How a key ingredient in Coca-Cola, M&M's is smuggled from war-torn Sudan Reuters

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