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Emails Show How Millions Flowed to ‘Political Consultants’ in Malta Hospital Corruption Case

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/emails-show-how-millions-flowed-to-political-consultants-in-malta-hospital-corruption-case

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FINMA proceedings: HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA violated money laundering regulations

Read here: https://www.finma.ch/en/news/2024/06/20240618-mm-hsbc/

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Women in FATF and the Global Network

Read here: https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/pages/Women-in-FATF-and-the-Global-Network.html Link to e-book: https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/dam/fatf-gafi/reports/WFGN-Breaking-Barriers.pdf.coredownload.pdf

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Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) integrates into AFCX’s (Australian Financial Crimes Exchange) ‘anti-scam intelligence loop’

Read here: https://www.commbank.com.au/articles/newsroom/2024/06/cba-anti-scam-intelligence-loop.html

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West Africa Plans to Fight New Synthetic Drug Epidemic

Read here; https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/18814-west-africa-plans-to-fight-new-synthetic-drug-epidemic Main report here: https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/kush-testing-drug-markets-sierra-leone-guinea-bissau/

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Environmental Crime and Corruption: EIA at the International Anti-Corruption Conference 2024

Read here: https://eia-international.org/report/environmental-crime-and-corruption-eia-at-the-international-anti-corruption-conference-2024/

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War Machine: The Networks Supplying & Sustaining the Russian Precision Machine Tool Arsenal

Read here: https://c4ads.org/reports/war-machine/ Link to report: https://c4ads.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/War-Machine-1.pdf

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How North Korea’s lucrative trade in human hair is helping it skirt the impact of sanctions

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/18/north-korea-human-hair-export-trade-wigs-false-eyelashes

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On the Hunt: The Effort to Track the Illegal Cheetah Trade

Read here: https://undark.org/2024/06/17/tracking-illegal-cheetah-trade/

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New documentary series on 1960s-era Mafia leaders inspired by ICIJ member’s book

Read here: https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/06/new-documentary-series-on-1960s-era-mafia-leaders-inspired-by-icij-members-book/

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Rare birds at risk as narco-gangs move into forests to evade capture

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/12/rare-tropical-birds-central-america-cocaine-drugs-trade-trafficking-deforestation-study-aoe

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How to Investigate Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing

Read here: https://gijn.org/resource/toolkit-investigate-illegal-unreported-unregulated-fishing/

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Two Russia-Born U.S. Citizens Arrested for Conspiring to Send $500,000 Worth of Luxury Goods to Russia

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-russia-born-us-citizens-arrested-conspiring-send-500000-worth-luxury-goods-russia

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Swiss museum removes art over Nazi looting fears

Read here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6pp6qv6jjyo

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Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT) Forms Industry Coalition – ‘Fighting Economic Crime Through Enhanced Verification’

Read here: https://cfit.org.uk/cfit-forms-industry-coalition-fighting-economic-crime-through-enhanced-verification/

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Record cocaine haul worth billions of euros seized

Read here: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-record-cocaine-haul-worth-billions-of-euros-seized/a-69360708

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‘The cocaine superhighway’: How death and destruction mark drug’s path from South America to Europe

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2024/jun/12/the-cocaine-superhighway-how-death-and-destruction-mark-drugs-path-from-south-america-to-europe

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‘We’re seeing firearms, arson, attacks on homes’: The families in the eye of Ireland’s cocaine storm

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2024/jun/12/were-seeing-firearms-arson-attacks-on-homes-the-families-in-the-eye-of-irelands-cocaine-storm

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Drug Traffickers Producing More Cocaine in Europe

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/drug-traffickers-producing-more-cocaine-in-europe-eu-report/

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The Global Reach of the ‘Ndrangheta: Join a Virtual Discussion About Italy’s Most Powerful Mafia

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/40-press-releases/presss-releases/18800-the-global-reach-of-the-ndrangheta-join-a-virtual-discussion-about-italys-most-powerful-mafia

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Illegal fishing and labor abuse rampant in China’s Indian Ocean fleet

Read here: https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/report-illegal-fishing-and-labor-abuse-rampant-in-chinas-indian-ocean-fleet/

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Combatting corruption: Council adopts position on EU law

Read here: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/06/14/combatting-corruption-council-adopts-position-on-eu-law/

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Money Launderer Sentenced To 30 Months In Prison For Laundering Millions Of Dollars Of Health Care Fraud Proceeds

Read here: https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/enforcement/money-launderer-sentenced-to-30-months-in-prison-for-laundering-millions-of-dollars-of-health-care-fraud-proceeds/

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Rise of Synthetic Drug Presence in Europe

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/18804-report-raise-of-synthetic-drug-presence-in-europe

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In eastern Indonesia, forest bird trade flies quietly under social media radar

Read here: https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/in-eastern-indonesia-forest-bird-trade-flies-quietly-under-social-media-radar/

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‘The gangs never used to kill children, now they do’: How cocaine created Argentina’s first narcocity

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jun/13/argentina-rosario-drug-trade-cocaine

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Sanctions, Dollar Hegemony, and the Unraveling of Third World Sovereignty

Read here: https://www.yjil.yale.edu/sanctions-dollar-hegemony-and-the-unraveling-of-third-world-sovereignty/

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‘Sanctions hole’: How secretive routes supply Russia with western tech and consumer goods

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/12/russia-sanctions-hole-backdoor-routes

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Justice Department Repatriates $1.4B Misappropriated 1MDB Funds to Malaysia

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-repatriates-14b-misappropriated-1mdb-funds-malaysia

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Cocaine cartel collapses after final arrests in Spain

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/cocaine-cartel-collapses-after-final-arrests-in-spain

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Buying a home? UK bank warns over rise in scam which sees fraudsters steal deposits

Read here: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/beatthescammers/article-13525673/amp/Buying-home-Major-bank-warns-rise-scam-sees-fraudsters-steal-deposits.html

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OFAC Sanctions Poly Technologies For Enabling War In Ukraine

Read here: https://c4ads.org/news/ofac-sanctions-poly-tech/

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Brazil Detains 7 Suspected Members of Illegal Amazon Timber Trade Ring

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/18805-brazil-detains-7-suspected-members-of-illegal-amazon-tiber-trade-ring

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US Drug Overdose Deaths Are Dropping, and Here’s Why

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/us-drug-overdose-deaths-dropping-heres-why/

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New UK sanctions to crack down on Russia’s war machine

Read here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-uk-sanctions-to-crack-down-on-putins-war-machine

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How your stolen iPhone ends up in one Chinese city market

Read here: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/how-your-stolen-iphone-ends-up-in-one-chinese-city-market-v6rf6w6pv

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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes asks court to overturn fraud conviction

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-appeal-fraud-conviction

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