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🎯 DOJ moving to wind down Trump criminal cases before he takes office. The step complies with long-standing DOJ policy that a sitting president can't be prosecuted. NBC

Top Stories

🌎 Where the Rich Can Buy Secrecy, Evade Laws, and Claim a Slice of Space. From Switzerland to Qatar to Kazakhstan, the countries clamoring to entice the ultrawealthy with a suite of new privileges. New Republic 

🌎 Canada orders TikTok to shut down over national risk concerns. It’s unclear what security risks ByteDance poses as the Canadian government provides no details. Bleepingcomputer 

🌎 TD Worker Fighting Money Laundering Accused of Stealing Data. Sewell distributed it on Telegram to others who she instructed to open bank accounts to deposit the checks and split the profits with others. Bloomberg 

💸 “America’s Most Convenient Bank” – The Irony of TD Bank's Slogan Anti-Money Laundering WTF 

🌎 How western sanctions are squeezing Russia. Three types of sanctions severely limit Russia’s ability to import and make use of its export earnings. FT

🌎 U.S. Agency Warns Employees About Phone Use Amid Ongoing China Hack. CFPB tells workers to reduce use of cellphones for work due to risk from China-linked telecom intrusion. WSJ

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🌎 UK Sanctions Russia-backed Wagner Group Successor Africa Corps. The measures were the first direct sanctions against Africa Corps by a G7 country. AFP

🇨🇳 China should learn from Russian ‘resilience’ in sanctions defense SCMP 

🌎 Narco sub carrying 8,000 pounds of cocaine intercepted in Pacific. The seizure comes just weeks after the Mexican navy announced it seized 8.3 tons of drugs. CBS

🚚 What This Week’s Big Cocaine Haul Means for U.S. Coke Users VICE

Russia & China

📌 Panama to cancel flags on four US-sanctioned LNG vessels Reuters

📌 China's cheap Iranian oil supply at risk from tighter Trump sanctions Reuters

📌 AstraZeneca Says Current, Former Executives Involved in China Probe Bloomberg 

📌 Sanctions evasion helps Russia dominate former Soviet republics Hill

📌 U.S. citizen arrested in Germany on suspicion of offering military intel to China NBC

Corruption & Financial Crime

💸 Hungary’s Mol Sees Strong Cash Flow After Russian Oil Deal Bloomberg

💸 U.S. blacklist sanctions evasion network tied to Bosnian-Serb leader Milorad Dodik UPI 

💸 Jurors find Broward exec guilty in $53M ‘Ponzi scheme’ targeting Haitians MH

💸 Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs slam FBI for revising 2022 crime data, demand answers NYP

💸 Nigerian Arrested in US for Multi-Million-Dollar Romance Fraud OCCRP

Crypto & Cyber

🔐 Here's How Quickly Gary Gensler Could Lose His SEC Chair Gig Under Trump CoinDesk 

🔐 French regulator probes Peter Thiel-backed betting platform Politico

🔐 Former FTX CTO Gary Wang Asks Court for No Jail Time CoinDesk

🔐 North Korean Hackers Target Crypto Firms with Hidden Risk Malware Hacker News

Trafficking

🚚 Global raids rescue 3,200 victims of trafficking and identify 17,800 irregular migrants Interpol 

🚚 Spanish police seize record cocaine haul in banana shipment from Ecuador Guardian 

🚚 Swiss Pair Charged With Laundering 830 Kg Of Gold AFP

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” —Abraham Lincoln

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