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Venezuela’s International Appetite for Stolen Luxury Cars

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/venezuelas-international-appetite-stolen-luxury-cars/

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Merck Sells Federally Financed Covid Pill To U.S. For 40 Times What It Costs To Make

Read here: https://theintercept.com/2021/10/05/covid-pill-drug-pricing-merck-ridgeback/

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Small Aircraft Feed Illegal Mining Operations in Brazil’s Amazon

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/small-aircraft-feed-illegal-mining-operations-brazil-amazon/

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UK: Financial Crime – analysis of firms’ 2017-2020 REP-CRIM data

Read here: https://www.fca.org.uk/data/financial-crime-analysis-firms-2017-2020

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Foreign National Sentenced for Money Laundering Funds to Promote Turtle Trafficking

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/foreign-national-sentenced-money-laundering-funds-promote-turtle-trafficking

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Police Raid Takes Fake Flat Listings Offline

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/police-raid-takes-fake-flat-listings-offline

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EU ready to impose more sanctions against Belarus

Read here: https://euobserver.com/world/153131

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Capital is tearing down one of the last great rainforests – we need government action to protect them

Read here: https://www.globalwitness.org/en/blog/capital-is-tearing-down-one-of-the-last-great-rainforests-we-need-government-action-to-protect-them/

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Joint Press Release Calling for Targeted Magnitsky Sanctions Against Senior Eritrean Officials

Read here: https://www.raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en/press-releases/2021-10-05

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WWF Statement on the Introduction of the FOREST Act

Read here: https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/wwf-statement-on-the-introduction-of-the-forest-act

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Chainalysis acquires cybercrime investigative firm Excygent in fight against ransomware attacks

Read here: https://cointelegraph.com/news/chainalysis-acquires-cybercrime-investigative-firm-excygent-in-fight-against-ransomware-attacks

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Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz under investigation over bribery

Read here: https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Bchancellor-kurz-under-investigation-over-bribery/

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British American Tobacco – Live Aggregated News

This is a live page. Last updated: 03 Oct 2021 – 1:56pm (UK Time)   This is The Laundry’s ‘live’ aggregated news page for recent media stories related British American Tobacco […]

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No prosecutions for furlough fraud, despite 30,000 allegations

Read here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/no-prosecutions-for-furlough-fraud-despite-30000-allegations/

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Interpol faces criticism for allowing Syria to rejoin its network

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/05/interpol-faces-criticism-allowing-syria-rejoin-network

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The US SEC is investigating crypto firm Circle over USDC product

Read here: https://cryptoslate.com/the-us-sec-is-investigating-crypto-firm-circle-over-usdc-product/

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The Ship That Became a Bomb

Read here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/the-ship-that-became-a-bomb

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Ecuador: The New Corridor for South American Arms Trafficking

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/ecuador-new-corridor-south-american-arms-trafficking/

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The Paradox Papers

Read here: https://www.effectiveaml.org/the-paradox-papers/

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Uncovering the Fortnite cryptocurrency scam: How ‘Fortnite coin’ is scamming unwary kids by using V-Bucks as a lure

Read here: https://www.sportskeeda.com/fortnite/uncovering-fortnite-cryptocurrency-scam-how-fortnite-coin-scamming-unwary-kids-using-v-bucks-lure

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Scamdemic: readers’ £1m losses highlight scale of the UK’s fraud crisis

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/oct/02/scamdemic-uk-fraud-crisis-banks-refunds

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Investors Spent Millions on ‘Evolved Apes’ NFTs. Then They Got Scammed

Read here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dyem/investors-spent-millions-on-evolved-apes-nfts-then-they-got-scammed

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Hacking humans: Social engineering in financial fraud

Read here: https://fintechmagazine.com/fraud-and-cybersecurity/hacking-humans-social-engineering-financial-fraud

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Global regulators close in on Tether

Read here: https://newmoneyreview.com/index.php/2021/10/06/global-regulators-close-in-on-tether/

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Gensler confirms SEC won’t ban crypto… but Congress could

Read here: https://cointelegraph.com/news/gensler-confirms-sec-won-t-ban-crypto-but-congress-could

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Pandemic Response Decimated North Korean Economy, U.N. Panel Finds

Read here: https://brief.kharon.com/updates/pandemic-response-decimated-north-korean-economy-un-panel-finds/

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26 alleged forex fraudsters arrested in Tel Aviv in joint investigation with FBI

Read here: https://www.timesofisrael.com/26-suspected-fraudsters-arrested-in-tel-aviv-in-joint-investigation-with-fbi/

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Germany: Police raids in 3 states target international money laundering network

Read here: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-raids-in-3-states-target-international-money-laundering-network/a-59420049

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Friends in the Right Places: Philip Morris International’s (PMI) Plan to Reach Policymakers

Read here: https://exposetobacco.org/news/friends-in-the-right-places/

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Ex-chief of Japanese egg firm found guilty of bribery

Read here: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/10/06/national/crime-legal/akita-foods-bribery-ruling/

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Eurojust assists Romania and Germany in dismantling migrant smuggling network

Read here: https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/eurojust-assists-romania-and-germany-dismantling-migrant-smuggling-network

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In Zahid’s trial, prosecution draws parallels with Najib’s RM42m SRC case over failure to check if millions received were illegal funds

Read here: https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2021/10/06/in-zahids-trial-prosecution-draws-parallels-with-najibs-rm42m-src-case-over/2011236

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Deputy National Security Adviser Lays Out Goals for Upcoming 30 Nation Meeting on Ransomware

Read here: https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2021/10/national-cyber-adviser-lays-out-goals-upcoming-30-nation-meeting-ransomware/185867/

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To the moon and hack: Fake SafeMoon app drops malware to spy on you

Read here: https://www.welivesecurity.com/2021/10/06/moon-hack-fake-safemoon-cryptocurrency-app-drops-malware-spy/

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Illegal Wildlife Trade in Uganda: Tracking Progress on ‘Following the Money’

Read here: https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/occasional-papers/illegal-wildlife-trade-uganda-tracking-progress-following-money Link to PDF of paper here: https://static.rusi.org/295-OP-IWT-Uganda.pdf

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Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco Announces National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/deputy-attorney-general-lisa-o-monaco-announces-national-cryptocurrency-enforcement-team

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18 Arrested As Police Across Europe Seize 350 Firearms

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/18-arrested-police-across-europe-seize-350-firearms

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McKinsey Never Told the FDA It Was Working for Opioid Makers While Also Working for the Agency

Read here: https://www.propublica.org/article/mckinsey-never-told-the-fda-it-was-working-for-opioid-makers-while-also-working-for-the-agency

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