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SEC Charges TheBull with Selling “Insider Trading Tips” on the Dark Web

Read here: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/sec-charges-thebull-selling-insider-trading-tips-dark-web

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Switzerland and Ghana join forces to campaign against e-waste

Read here: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/switzerland-and-ghana-join-forces-to-campaign-against-e-waste/46767948

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Crypto scammers rip off billions as pump-and-dump schemes go digital

Read here: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/crypto-scammers-rip-off-billions-as-pump-and-dump-schemes-go-digital-1.1626890

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Scammers target over £2 million in pension pots in the last five months

Read here: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/scammers-target-pension-pots

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Argentina To Sanction Oil Firms Drilling Off Disputed Falklands

Read here: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Argentina-To-Sanction-Oil-Firms-Drilling-Off-Disputed-Falklands.html

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Former CEO And COO Of JHL Biotech Charged With Conspiracy To Steal Trade Secrets And Commit Wire Fraud Exceeding $101 Million

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-ceo-and-coo-jhl-biotech-charged-conspiracy-steal-trade-secrets-and-commit-wire

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France to withdraw its digital tax the day global rules are in force

Read here: https://www.politico.eu/article/france-to-withdraw-its-digital-tax-the-day-international-rules-are-in-force/

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Suspected head of international people smuggling network arrested by the NCA

Read here: https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/suspected-head-of-international-people-smuggling-network-arrested-by-the-nca

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Sotheby’s Sells Rare Diamond for $12.3M in Crypto

Read here: https://www.coindesk.com/sothebys-sells-rare-diamond-for-12-3m-in-crypto

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Central bank digital currencies for cross-border payments

Read here: https://www.bis.org/publ/othp38.pdf

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New plan to make Britain global leader in innovation-focused digital regulation

Read here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-plan-to-make-britain-global-leader-in-innovation-focused-digital-regulation

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Cyber-attack: Classic Football Shirts warns customers of scam

Read here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57766908

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Who Was Behind the Killing of Haiti’s President?

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/who-behind-killing-haiti-president/

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Twenty-Five Victims Of Sexual Exploitation Identified In Romania And Spain

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/twenty-five-victims-of-sexual-exploitation-identified-in-romania-and-spain

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Foreign Oligarchs And The Art Of Laundering: How Dark Money Threatens Us All

Read here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2021/07/08/foreign-oligarchs-and-the-art-of-laundering-how-dark-money-threatens-us-all/

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Eurojust assists Italy in blocking VAT fraud scheme with car imports from Germany

Read here: https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/eurojust-assists-italy-blocking-vat-fraud-scheme-car-imports-germany

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Darkweb Drug Trafficker Arrested in Operation DisrupTor Sentenced to 6.5 Years in Prison

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/darkweb-drug-trafficker-arrested-operation-disruptor-sentenced-65-years-prison

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Metro Vancouver fentanyl trafficker avoids jail time

Read here: https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/fentanyl-trafficker-avoids-jail-time

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Ransomware attackers demand $400,000 from Swiss website

Read here: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/ransomware-attackers-demand–400-000-from-swiss-website/46770612

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78 People Indicted on 355 Crimes in Central New York State Drug Bust

Read here: https://www.newsweek.com/78-people-indicted-355-crimes-central-new-york-state-drug-bust-1607745

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UK Ad Watchdog to Clamp Down on Crypto Marketing

Read here: https://www.coindesk.com/uk-ad-watchdog-to-clamp-down-on-crypto-report

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The Banque de France conducts a successful experiment on the use of central bank digital money with a consortium of actors driven by LiquidShare

Read here: https://www.banque-france.fr/en/communique-de-presse/banque-de-france-conducts-successful-experiment-use-central-bank-digital-money-consortium-actors

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Report on the conduct of Boris Johnson (MP) – Concerning holiday accommodation provided to him on the island of Mustique in St Vincent and the Grenadines

Read here: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/290/committee-on-standards/news/156428/report-on-the-conduct-of-rt-hon-boris-johnson-mp-published/ Link to PDF version of report: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/6631/documents/71459/default/ Link to HTML version of report: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmselect/cmstandards/549/54902.htm Link to written evidence: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/6632/documents/71462/default/

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JobMaker migrants lured by collapsed Xinja executive

Read here: https://www.afr.com/rear-window/jobmaker-migrants-lured-by-collapsed-xinja-executive-20210708-p587vh

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Applying Counterterrorism Strategies to Ransomware

Read here: https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/applying-counterterrorism-strategies-to-ransomware

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Hamas-Linked Wallets have Received $7.7 Million in Cryptoassets, Including Dogecoin

Read here: https://www.elliptic.co/blog/hamas-linked-wallets-have-received-7.3-million-in-cryptoassets

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Justice For Sale: How London’s legal system courted the global super-elite

Read here: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-07-08/how-london-legal-system-courted-global-elite

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UK Money Laundering: Confidentiality and sensitivity of suspicious activity reports (SARs) in the context of disclosure in private civil litigation

Read here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/circular-0042021-money-laundering-and-suspicious-activity-reports/0042021-money-laundering-the-confidentiality-and-sensitivity-of-suspicious-activity-reports-sars-in-the-context-of-disclosure-in-private-civil-li

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Financial firms must tackle dark side of open banking and use it to stop crime

Read here: https://www.arachnys.com/financial-firms-must-tackle-dark-side-of-open-banking-and-use-it-to-stop-crime/

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Revealing the networks behind corruption and money laundering schemes: Analysis of the Toledo-Odebrecht case using social network analysis and network ethnography

Read here: https://baselgovernance.org/sites/default/files/2021-07/Working%20Paper%2036%20Odebrecht%20Toledo.pdf

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Active Shipping Companies Linked to Oil Smuggling and Sanctioned Terror Financiers

Read here: https://sayari.com/resources/active-shipping-companies-linked-to-oil-smuggling-and-sanctioned-terror-financiers/

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The Rebirth Of NFTs: Moving Beyond The Initial Hype

Read here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/leeorshimron/2021/07/07/the-rebirth-of-nfts-moving-beyond-the-initial-hype/

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NCA arrest man on suspicion of importing firearms as gun haul is seized in Bangor

Read here: https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/nca-arrest-man-on-suspicion-of-importing-firearms-as-gun-haul-is-seized-in-bangor

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What the U.K. Can Learn from the U.S. Experience with Audit Reform: Don’t Do What We Did

Read here: https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2021/07/what-the-u-k-can-learn-from-the-u-s-experience-with-audit-reform-dont-do-what-we-did/

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UK facing ‘tsunami’ of fraud, experts warn MPs in plea for swift action

Read here: https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/business/uk-and-abroad/3295342/uk-facing-tsunami-of-fraud-experts-warn-mps-in-plea-for-swift-action/

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UK whistleblower Jonathan Taylor finally freed from extradition torment almost one year on

Read here: https://whistleblowingnetwork.org/News-Events/News/News-Archive/UK-whistleblower-Jonathan-Taylor-finally-freed-fro

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Dutch crime journalist ‘fighting for life’

Watch here: https://news.sky.com/video/dutch-crime-journalist-fighting-for-life-12351174

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9 Arrested In Moldova And France For €2 Million Immigration Fraud

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/9-arrested-in-moldova-and-france-for-€2-million-immigration-fraud]

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Warning about scam calls from “matching” mobile phone numbers

Read here: https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/alert/warning-about-scam-calls-from-matching-mobile-phone-numbers

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Sanctions Against Russian Research Institutes Reveal Supply Chain Dependencies

Read here: https://brief.kharon.com/updates/sanctions-against-russian-research-institutes-reveal-supply-chain-dependencies/

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