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Renaissance hedge fund execs to pay £5bn in back taxes

Read here: https://www.cityam.com/renaissance-hedge-fund-pay-5bn-back-taxes/

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Trial Begins For Backpage.com Journalists In Money Laundering, Prostitution Case

Read here: https://www.knau.org/post/trial-begins-backpagecom-journalists-money-laundering-prostitution-case

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‘Cash for Passports’: Montenegro Scraps Scheme after EU Warning

Read here: https://balkaninsight.com/2021/09/02/cash-for-passports-montenegro-scraps-scheme-after-eu-warning/

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Huawei can prosper despite US sanctions, says board member

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/01/huawei-can-prosper-despite-us-sanctions-says-board-member

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Nigeria’s SEC Establishes Specialist Division to Study Crypto Investments

Read here: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/09/03/nigeria-sec-establishes-specialist-division-to-study-crypto-investments-report/

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Indonesia’s newly minted investigators to go after illegal fishing kingpins

Read here: https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/indonesias-newly-minted-investigators-to-go-after-illegal-fishing-kingpins/

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Project Dunbar: International settlements using multi-CBDCs

Read here: https://www.bis.org/about/bisih/topics/cbdc/wcbdc.htm

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Afghanistan’s Corruption Was Made in America: How Self-Dealing Elites Failed in Both Countries

Read here: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-09-03/afghanistans-corruption-was-made-in-america

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‘I Just Did Admin,’ Broker Tells UK Money Laundering Trial

Read here: https://www.law360.com/financial-services-uk/articles/1418313/-i-just-did-admin-broker-tells-uk-money-laundering-trial-

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Legal Expert Says Ethereum Complicates SEC’s Case Against Ripple – Here’s How

Read here: https://dailyhodl.com/2021/09/03/legal-expert-says-ethereum-complicates-secs-case-against-ripple-heres-how/

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FBI warns of ransomware gangs targeting food, agriculture orgs

Read here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-warns-of-ransomware-gangs-targeting-food-agriculture-orgs/

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South Africa Arrests 7 Suspects of Whistleblower Murder

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/15098-south-africa-arrests-7-suspects-of-whistleblower-murder

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Closing ranks on emerging organized crime: INTERPOL to open new Caribbean office

Read here: https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2021/Closing-ranks-on-emerging-organized-crime-INTERPOL-to-open-new-Caribbean-office

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Credit Suisse, Gupta Legal Fight Delayed as Tycoon Seeks Funding

Read here: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/credit-suisse–gupta-legal-fight-delayed-as-tycoon-seeks-funding/46917182

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Drug trafficking and illegal logging threaten Indigenous communities in Peru

Read here: https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/drug-trafficking-and-illegal-logging-threaten-indigenous-communities-in-peru/

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The DOJ is investigating two senior Kuwaiti Olympic officials for bribery and racketeering related to FIFA probe

Read here: https://www.businessinsider.com/doj-is-investigating-two-senior-kuwaiti-olympic-officials-for-bribery-2021-9

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Stablecoins Are ‘Pretending’ to Be Currencies: ECB’s Lagarde

Read here: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/09/02/stablecoins-are-pretending-to-be-currencies-ecbs-lagarde/

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UK: Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announces new Myanmar sanctions

Read here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-secretary-dominic-raab-announces-new-myanmar-sanctions

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‘Corrupt government officials’ draining Pilatus assets, Sadr lawyers claim

Read here: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/corrupt-government-officials-draining-pilatus-assets-sadr-lawyers

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Former FIFA official Marco Polo del Nero’s bribery life ban reduced to 20 years

Read here: https://www.firstpost.com/sports/former-fifa-official-marco-polo-del-neros-bribery-life-ban-reduced-to-20-years-9932311.html

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Fashion brands fail to address pandemic-era wage theft in Cambodia: Garment workers deprived of $109 million

Read here: https://www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/fashion/fashion-brands-fail-to-address-pandemic-era-wage-theft-in-cambodia-garment-workers-deprived-of-109-million

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25-year-old internal memo to Canada Revenue Agency predicted foreign money distorting housing market

Read here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-25-year-old-internal-memo-to-canada-revenue-agency-predicted-foreign/ An internal Canada Revenue Agency audit concluded 25 years ago that wealthy new immigrants were buying up most of the priciest houses taken from a sample in and […]

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Briton charged in Singapore as police probe Wirecard-linked firm

Read here: https://www.reuters.com/business/briton-charged-singapore-police-probe-wirecard-linked-firm-2021-09-02/

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Eastern Europe’s Crypto Crime Landscape: Scams Dominate, Plus Significant Ransomware Activity

Read here: https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/eastern-europe-cryptocurrency-geography-report-2021-preview

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Sale of a Seized Beach House Funds Covid-19 Vaccine Drive in Equatorial Guinea

Read here: https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/09/02/sale-seized-beach-house-funds-covid-19-vaccine-drive-equatorial-guinea

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After scathing parliamentary AML inquiry, AUSTRAC takes aim at quality, quantity of suspicious matter reports in quest to bolster fincrime effectiveness

Read here: https://www.acfcs.org/after-scathing-parliamentary-aml-inquiry-austrac-takes-aim-at-quality-quantity-of-suspicious-matter-reports-in-quest-to-bolster-fincrime-effectiveness/

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Navigating Cryptocurrency Regulation: An Industry Perspective on the Insights and Tools Needed to Shape Balanced Crypto Regulation

Read here: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Navigating_Cryptocurrency_Regulation_2021.pdf

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How Mexico’s Cartels Have Learned Military Tactics

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/how-mexicos-cartel-have-learned-military-tactics/

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A billion-dollar dispute over a trove of Silk Road bitcoins could reveal identity of ‘Individual X’

Read here: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/news+/116203/a-billion-dollar-dispute-over-a-trove-of-silk-road-bitcoins-could-reveal-identity-of-individual-x

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The Italian Job: How Myanmar timber is trafficked through Italy to the rest of Europe despite EU laws

Read here: https://eia-international.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Italian-Job-2021-SPREADS.pdf

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How scammers are exploiting the NFT mania

Read here: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/116317/how-scammers-are-exploiting-the-nft-mania

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The IRS Goes Undercover As A Bitcoin Trader In $180,000 Sting

Read here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/09/01/irs-undercover-on-a-bitcoin-and-cryptocurrency-trading-site-in-180000-sting

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Western Union to resume money-transfer services to Afghanistan

Read here: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/9/2/western-union-to-resume-money-transfer-services-to-afghanistan

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Pilatus Bank and former legal official charged with money laundering

Read here: https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/111810/money_laundering_charges_for_former_pilatus_top_brass_to_follow_record_5m_fine

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Gary Gensler Speaks To The European Parliament On Bitcoin And Crypto Regulation

Read here: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/gary-gensler-speaks-to-the-european-parliament-on-bitcoin-and-crypto-regulation-2021-09-01 Remarks of Gary Gensler.  Chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Before the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs Sept. 1, 2021: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/239081/21.09.01%20ECON%20Committee%20Remarks.pdf

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Bitcoin Law Critic Arrested in El Salvador Without Warrant

Read here: https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-law-critic-mario-gomez-arrested-el-salvador-without-warrant/

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Now for the Hard Part: The Taliban Face Financial Headwinds

Read here: https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/now-hard-part-taliban-face-financial-headwinds

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MAS orders crypto exchange operator Binance to stop providing payment services to Singapore residents

Read here: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/binanace-mas-payment-services-act-investor-alert-list-2152346

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Top South Indian stars summoned in money laundering probe

Read here: https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/south-indian/top-south-indian-stars-summoned-in-money-laundering-probe-1.81950962

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Former Rio Rico bank manager sentenced to 30 months for money laundering

Read here: https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/former-rio-rico-bank-manager-sentenced-to-30-months-for-money-laundering

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