Greetings! It’s March 13, and we’re tracking today’s top stories: U.S. sanctions Sweden-based gang with links to Iran, first-of-its-kind lawsuit alleges human trafficking by Bumble Bee Seafoods, North Korean government hackers snuck spyware on Android app store, ActBlue faces call for terror financing investigation, and much more…

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U.S. sanctions Sweden-based gang with links to Iran. Describing Foxtrot as one of Sweden's "most notorious criminal gangs," the U.S. Treasury and State Departments also placed sanctions on its leader Rawa Majid, with both agencies saying he had "specifically cooperated with the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security." AFP

🔥 TOP STORIES

First-of-its-kind lawsuit alleges human trafficking by San Diego’s Bumble Bee Seafoods SDUT

North Korean government hackers snuck spyware on Android app store TC

Amid Turmoil, ActBlue Faces Call for Terror-Financing Investigation Free Press

Lindsey Graham to push 'bone-breaking sanctions and tariffs' to pressure Russia into peace with Ukraine Fox

Iran’s Khamenei Says Talks With Trump Will Lead to More Sanctions Bloomberg

Iran Compiling U.S. Terror List Newsweek 

Why TikTok Should Be OnChain CoinDesk

🔐 Identity is Everything Coercive Capital

India arrests man accused of running $96B crypto exchange at request of US CNN 

One of Guatemala's most wanted drug suspects caught in Mexico AFP 

U.S. Targets Small Currency Transactions to Fight Cartels WSJ

FinCEN Issues Southwest Border Geographic Targeting Order FinCEN

💥 RUSSIA & CHINA

Chinese Companies Rush to Put DeepSeek in Everything Wired

Iran, China and Russia huddle for nuclear talks while UN meets behind closed doors on possible sanctions Fox

Activist groups urge UN probe of its Myanmar envoy after report alleges ties to Chinese companies AP

Signal no longer cooperating with Ukraine on Russian cyberthreats Record

💸 CORRUPTION & FINANCIAL CRIME

DOJ is expected to slash public corruption unit AP

Law firm Simpson Thacher agrees to UK fine over money laundering rule breaches Reuters 

Judge temporarily blocks parts of Trump's EO seeking to punish law firm Perkins Coie AP 

As Chevron readies to leave Venezuela, Maduro offers foreign oil companies a welcome MH

Trump Terminates $20B in Biden Climate Funding Over Fraud Concerns Free Beacon

🔐 CRYPTO & CYBER

House discusses stablecoins, AML Axios

Delete these ‘smishing’ texts now NYP

Volt Typhoon hackers were in MA utility’s systems for 10 months Record

Suspicious High-Leverage Trades on Hyperliquid Raise AML Concerns Beincrypto 

More than 300 critical infrastructure orgs attacked by Medusa ransomware Record

🚚 TRAFFICKING

From Mexico cartel safe house to US streets BBC

A Chance for Justice in a Notorious Drug War NYT 

Authorities tout massive 50-pound fentanyl seizure in L.A.: ‘Our biggest bust yet’ LAT 

Rio de Janeiro police demolish 'drug trafficking resort' in favela Reuters

How Donald Trump Can Win A War Against the Drug Cartels 1945

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