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Justice Department to Recover Over $100 Million in Additional Funds Linked to 1MDB Scheme

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-recover-over-100-million-additional-funds-linked-1mdb-scheme

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Criminal Code? DeFi, Illicit Finance, and the Future of Financial Freedom

Read here: https://www.cato.org/events/criminal-code-defi-illicit-finance-future-financial-freedom

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Romanian Controversial Gold Mining Project Loses License

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/18831-romanian-controversial-gold-mining-project-loses-license

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Croatia: Three individuals and a company indicted for subsidy fraud and document forgery

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/croatia-three-individuals-and-company-indicted-subsidy-fraud-and-document-forgery

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Peru Extortion Scheme Shows How Private Schools Make Easy Targets

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/peru-extortion-scheme-shows-how-private-schools-make-easy-targets/

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Deepfake Creators Are Revictimizing GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Survivors

Read here: https://www.wired.com/story/girlsdoporn-deepfake-victim-videos/

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Man Convicted of Violent Home Invasion Robberies to Steal Cryptocurrency

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-convicted-violent-home-invasion-robberies-steal-cryptocurrency

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42 arrested in Spain for trafficking cannabis and heroin

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/42-arrested-in-spain-for-trafficking-cannabis-and-heroin

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Firestorm Erupts Around Wealthy Kazakh Yacht Guests Following Greek Island Blaze

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/18828-firestorm-erupts-around-wealthy-kazakh-yacht-guests-following-greek-island-blaze

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Two Men Sentenced for Orchestrating Multimillion-Dollar Cryptocurrency Securities Fraud and Wire Fraud Schemes

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-men-sentenced-orchestrating-multimillion-dollar-cryptocurrency-securities-fraud-and-wire

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‘Like slaves’: Myanmar workers trafficked to Laos scam hub

Read here: https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/like-slaves-myanmar-workers-trafficked-to-laos-scam-hub/

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UNODC World Drug Report 2024: Harms of world drug problem continue to mount amid expansions in drug use and markets

Read here: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2024/June/unodc-world-drug-report-2024_-harms-of-world-drug-problem-continue-to-mount-amid-expansions-in-drug-use-and-markets.html Link to report: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/world-drug-report-2024.html

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Notorious drug lord and former wrestler known as Bulgaria’s “cocaine king” surrenders after years on the run

Read here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/evelin-banev-fugitive-drug-lord-surrenders-former-wrestler-interpol-red-notice/

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U.S. publishes 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report

Read here: https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-trafficking-in-persons-report/

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ArcelorMittal bought coal from Russia as Ukrainian employees died on frontlines

Read here: https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-gas/arcelormittal-bought-coal-russia-ukrainian-employees-died-frontlines/

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Murder suspect’s daughter demands access to seized money in money laundering case

Read here: https://nltimes.nl/2024/06/23/murder-suspects-daughter-demands-access-seized-money-money-laundering-case

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Brothers employed their parents to launder money made from selling cocaine

Read here: https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2024-06-22/brothers-employed-their-parents-to-launder-money-made-from-selling-cocaine

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UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) algorithm wrongly flags 200,000 people for possible fraud and error

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/23/dwp-algorithm-wrongly-flags-200000-people-possible-fraud-error

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How come the EU and US are still importing ‘blood timber’ from Myanmar when they introduced sanctions to prevent it?

Read here: https://eia-international.org/blog/how-come-the-eu-and-us-are-still-importing-blood-timber-from-myanmar-when-they-introduced-sanctions-to-prevent-it/

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Four members of Britain’s richest family get jail sentences after exploiting servants

Read here: https://news.sky.com/story/hindujas-four-members-of-britains-richest-family-get-jail-sentences-after-exploiting-servants-13156760

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Anti-Money Laundering Body Pledges to Probe OCCRP Findings on UAE

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/18829-anti-money-laundering-body-pledges-to-probe-occrp-findings-on-uae

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UK Conservative Party Received Donation from Company Linked to Conservative Baroness’s Scandal-Hit Husband

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/uk-tories-received-donation-from-company-linked-to-conservative-baronesss-scandal-hit-husband

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Has Facebook Stopped Trying? Facebook has been overrun with AI spam and scams

Read here: https://www.404media.co/has-facebook-stopped-trying/

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Treasury Sanctions Kaspersky Lab Leadership in Response to Continued Cybersecurity Risks

Read here: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2420

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Guinea media regulators jailed over junta bribery claim

Read here: https://www.voanews.com/a/guinea-media-regulators-jailed-over-junta-bribery-claim/7664921.html

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Türkiye’s foreign bribery enforcement remains poor and needs urgent overhaul despite some legislative improvements, says OECD Working Group on Bribery

Read here: https://www.oecd.org/corruption/turkiye-s-foreign-bribery-enforcement-remains-poor-and-needs-urgent-overhaul-despite-some-legislative-improvements-says-oecd-working-group-on-bribery.htm

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Hague politicians acquitted of bribery, guilty of violating professional secrecy

Read here: https://nltimes.nl/2024/06/21/hague-politicians-acquitted-bribery-guilty-violating-professional-secrecy

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Mysterious memo tying Zambian ex-president Edgar Lungu to alleged corruption highlights the limits of financial intelligence units

Read here: https://www.icij.org/investigations/swazi-secrets/mysterious-memo-tying-zambian-ex-president-edgar-lungu-to-alleged-corruption-highlights-the-limits-of-financial-intelligence-units/

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A cycle of debt, sex work and cocaine: the women in west Africa caught in Europe’s drugs trail

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2024/jun/14/a-cycle-of-debt-sex-work-and-cocaine-the-women-in-west-africa-caught-in-europes-drugs-trail

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Broken Promises: Forced Labour in Saudi Arabia and the Fast Tracked World Cup Bid

Read here: https://www.equidem.org/reports/broken-promises-forced-labour-in-saudi-arabia-and-the-fast-tracked-world-cup-bid Link to report: https://www.equidem.org/assets/downloads/broken_promises-final3.pdf

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Fraud and corruption drive illegal wildlife trade in the Amazon

Read here: https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/fraud-and-corruption-drive-illegal-wildlife-trade-in-the-amazon/

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People smuggler who made £800k last year ‘at peace’ with dying on the job

Read here: https://news.sky.com/story/people-smuggler-who-made-800k-last-year-at-peace-with-dying-on-the-job-13154375

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Five Men Convicted for Operating Major Illegal Streaming Service

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-men-convicted-operating-major-illegal-streaming-service

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Singapore publishes Money Laundering National Risk Assessment

Read here: https://www.mas.gov.sg/publications/monographs-or-information-paper/2024/money-laundering-national-risk-assessment

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5 arrests for sexual exploitation of Ukrainian refugees in Spain

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/5-arrests-for-sexual-exploitation-of-ukrainian-refugees-in-spain

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Corruption in Construction: Exploring What Banks and Government Agencies Must Know

Read here: https://finintegrity.org/corruption-in-construction/

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