Hello Tuesday! It’s October 15, and we’re tracking today’s top stories: Russia’s shadow fleet grows despite western sanctions, new episode of Designated with Yaya Jata Fanusie features counter-pig butchering paragon, Hezbollah running out of money, inside America’s fastest-growing criminal enterprise, and much more…

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🎯 Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers grows despite western sanctions. Poorly maintained and uninsured vessels transport up to 70% of country’s seaborne oil. Guardian

🇷🇺 EU includes Iran Air in sanctions over missile transfer to Russia Reuters

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🎙️Meet Erin West: New Episode of Designated with Yaya Jata Fanusie Features Counter-Pig Butchering Paragon to Discuss the Scam’s Deep Roots, Terrible Consequences Illicit Edge

🌎 Hezbollah running out of money amid Israeli bombardment. The group’s cash sources include Lebanon’s insolvent but licensed commercial banks and arrivals of cash-bearing planes. VOA 

💥 UN peacekeeping troops failing Israel as Hezbollah creates terror tunnels right under their noses NYP

🌎 Inside America’s Fastest-Growing Criminal Enterprise. House of Hope residents often come branded or tattooed by the cartels and gangs who trafficked them. Free Press

🌎 Kamala Harris accused of plagiarizing passages in co-authored 2009 book. The vice president appears to have airlifted sections of her book, Smart on Crime. CNN 

🌎 Crypto Company Tether Talking to Commodity Traders About Lending Them Its Billions. Two top Russian metals producers have turned to the stablecoin to settle cross border transactions. Bloomberg 

🌎 He Was a Monk, Then a Billionaire and Now an Alleged Tax Cheat. Michigan philanthropist Manoj Bhargava made a fortune on his path to enlightenment. WSJ 

🌎 Inside the Carjacking Crisis. In October of last year, three masked men carjacked Henry Cuellar, a congressman from Texas. Atlantic

🌎 Scale of Chinese Spying Overwhelms Western Governments. Fears of escalation as China’s intelligence-gathering operation looks to consolidate Xi Jinping’s grip on power. WSJ

🚩 U.S. Weighs Capping Exports of AI Chips From Nvidia and AMD to Some Countries Bloomberg

🌎 NY Congressional Candidate, Running on a Plan To Combat Campus Anti-Semitism, Took Max Donation From Nonprofit Leader Bankrolling Pro-Hamas Protests Free Beacon 

📕 Propaganda, Procurement and Lethal Operations: Iran's Activities Inside America GW Program on Extremism

Russia

🇷🇺 Russia seeks over $1B in damages from Shell Reuters 

🇷🇺 India is now Russia’s No. 2 supplier of restricted technology Fortune

🇷🇺 UK-linked firms suspected of busting Russia sanctions BBC

🇷🇺 Russia’s illicit Starlink terminals help power its advance in Ukraine WaPo

China

🇨🇳 Meet the Chinese ‘Typhoon’ hackers preparing for war TechCrunch 

🇨🇳 IBM Investigates Allegations of Executive Misconduct in China Bloomberg

🇨🇳 Mexico must stop itself from becoming China’s Trojan Horse Hill

🇨🇳 China is quietly extracting itself from a US helium ‘stranglehold’ SCMP

Corruption & Financial Crime

💸 Key to Citi's regulatory woes - staff need skills 'enhancement' Reuters 

💸 Inside the Growing and Controversial World of Wildlife-Killing Contests Rolling Stone

💸 Canada expels Indian diplomats after tying government agents to ‘serious criminal activity’ CNN 

💸 Nigerian airline CEO faces new US charge in $20M fraud case Semafor

💸 ECB challenges Serbian bank’s takeover bid over money laundering concerns FT

Crypto & Cyber

🔐 MrBeast allegedly reaped $10M promoting and dumping altcoins Cointelegraph

🔐 Hong Kong Crypto Swindler Tied to Singapore Money Laundering Syndicate OCCRP

🔐 Mysterious Hacking Group Has 2 New Tools to Steal Data From Air-Gapped Machines Wired 

🔐 National Public Data, the hacked data broker that lost millions in personal data, files for bankruptcy TechCrunch

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