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Retailers keep cashing in on crypto ATMs as scams surge

Read here: https://www.icij.org/investigations/coin-laundry/retailers-keep-cashing-in-on-crypto-atms-as-scams-surge/

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Minimizing risks of criminal exposure to scam compounds in corporate supply chains

Read here: https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/minimizing-risks-of-criminal-exposure-to-scam-compounds-in-corporate-supply-chains/

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Austria Blocks Extradition To US Of Ukrainian Oligarch Dmytro Firtash

Read here: https://www.rferl.org/a/austria-ukraine-firtash-oligarch-extradition-bribery/33619305.html

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Attorney General James Announces Takedown of Bribery and Money Laundering Schemes at JFK Airport

Read here: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2025/attorney-general-james-announces-takedown-bribery-and-money-laundering-schemes

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Environmental crime in the Western Balkans: Unveiling green crimes

Read here: https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/unveiling-green-crimes-environmental-crime-in-the-western-balkans/

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Criminal currents: Organized crime threats in the Pacific Islands

Read here: https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/climate-change-and-organized-crime-threats-in-the-pacific-islands/

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Albania Suspends Deputy PM Balluku in Major Tender Probe

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/news/albania-suspends-deputy-pm-balluku-in-major-tender-probe

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Exploring the threat of Chinese professional money laundering

Read here: https://www.socace-research.org.uk/projects/rusi-exploring-the-threat-of-chinese-professional-money-laundering

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Myanmar’s opium cultivation reaches ten-year peak

Read here: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2025/December/myanmars-opium-cultivation-reaches-ten-year-peak.html

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Stricter rules adopted to protect sloths from pet trade and selfie tourism

Read here: https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/stricter-rules-adopted-to-protect-sloths-from-pet-trade-and-selfie-tourism/

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Major Auto Theft Investigation Targets Export Enablers – Organized Crime and Money Laundering Charges Laid

Read here: https://www.canada.ca/en/border-services-agency/news/2025/12/major-auto-theft-investigation-targets-export-enablers—organized-crime-and-money-laundering-charges-laid.html

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Belgium: EPPO conducts searches at College of Europe and European External Action Service

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/belgium-eppo-conducts-searches-college-europe-and-european-external-action-service

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Coordinated strike hits violent criminal network behind large-scale illegal gambling and money laundering in Sweden

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/coordinated-strike-hits-violent-criminal-network-behind-large-scale-illegal-gambling-and-money-laundering-in-sweden

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Bulgaria: Former mayor and ex-governor of Varna indicted for claiming funds for non-existent harbour

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/bulgaria-former-mayor-and-ex-governor-varna-indicted-claiming-funds-non-existent-harbour

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Kremlin’s sanctioned crypto payment network has Budapest link

Read here: https://reporter.london/?p=1579

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FCA fines Nationwide £44m for failings in financial crime controls

Read here: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/fca-fines-nationwide-44m-failings-financial-crime-controls Final Notice: https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/final-notices/nationwide-building-society-2025.pdf

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Scambling: the nexus between scams, money mules and micro-laundering

Read here: https://www.austrac.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-12/Scambling%20-%20the%20nexus%20between%20scams%2C%20money%20mules%20and%20micro-laundering.pdf

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Plus Ultra airline probed over use of bailout money to launder funds from Venezuela in France, Switzerland and Spain

Read here: https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-12/airline-probed-over-use-of-bailout-money-to-launder-funds-from-venezuela-in-france-switzerland-and-spain.html

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International Cocaine Network Based in Albania and Italy Dismantled

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/news/international-cocaine-network-based-in-albania-and-italy-dismantled

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FinCEN Issues Alert on Cross-Border Funds Transfers Involving Illegal Aliens

Read here: https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-issues-alert-cross-border-funds-transfers-involving-illegal-aliens

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China’s ZTE may pay more than $1 billion to the US over foreign bribery allegations, sources say

Read here: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-chinas-zte-may-pay-000538709.html

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Saks Clients Complained About Stylist Long Before He Was Accused of $400,000 Scam

Read here: https://www.wsj.com/business/saks-stylist-scam-shail-kwatra-81cc3aba

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29 suspects arrested in two blows against human trafficking networks

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/29-suspects-arrested-in-two-blows-against-human-trafficking-networks

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Bulgaria: Former mayor and ex-governor of Varna indicted for claiming funds for non-existent harbour

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/bulgaria-former-mayor-and-ex-governor-varna-indicted-claiming-funds-non-existent-harbour

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Italians With Alleged Mafia Ties Doing Business in Slovakia

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/news/italian-mafia-figures-doing-business-in-slovakia

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Cocaine and Bananas: How Balkan Traffickers Used Fruit Shipments From the Ecuadorian President’s Family Firm to Smuggle Drugs

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/project/the-crime-messenger/cocaine-and-bananas-how-balkan-traffickers-used-fruit-shipments-from-the-ecuadorian-presidents-family-firm-to-smuggle-drugs

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Italy: EPPO strikes against group behind €40 million EU subsidy fraud scheme involving fake training courses

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/italy-eppo-strikes-against-group-behind-eu40-million-eu-subsidy-fraud-scheme-involving

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International drug network dismantled: 24 arrests and EUR 3 million seized

Read here: https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/international-drug-network-dismantled-24-arrests-and-eur-3-million-seized

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Age of the ‘scam state’: How an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/02/scam-state-multi-billion-dollar-industry-south-east-asia

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Report Fraud service goes live in the UK with full public launch in January 2026

Read here: https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/2025/december/report-fraud-service-goes-live-with-full-public-launch-in-january-2026/

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From TechHaven to Telegram: How Latin American Youth Are Being Drawn into Jihadist Networks

Read here: https://gnet-research.org/2025/11/14/from-techhaven-to-telegram-how-latin-american-youth-are-being-drawn-into-jihadist-networks/

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16.6 million packages of fake and harmful toys taken off EU markets

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/166-million-packages-of-fake-and-harmful-toys-taken-eu-markets

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Cryptocurrency mixing service used to launder money taken down

Read here: https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/cryptocurrency-mixing-service-used-launder-money-taken-down

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Contact centres provide a rich source of counter-fraud intelligence

Read here: https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/news-and-insight/blog/contact-centres-provide-rich-source-counter-fraud-intelligence

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Dutch Prosecutors Seek 20-Year Sentence for Alleged Human Trafficker

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/news/dutch-prosecutors-seek-20-year-sentence-for-alleged-human-trafficker

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South Korea Sanctions Sprawling ‘Prince Group’ Alleged Criminal Empire

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/news/south-korea-sanctions-sprawling-prince-group-alleged-criminal-empire

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Cryptocurrency giant Tether is wildly profitable. Can it do more to stop financial crime?

Read here: https://www.icij.org/investigations/coin-laundry/cryptocurrency-giant-tether-is-wildly-profitable-can-it-do-more-to-stop-financial-crime/

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Make money or die: Inside Myanmar’s multi-billion dollar scam industry

Read here: https://www.channel4.com/news/make-money-or-die-inside-myanmars-multi-billion-dollar-scam-industry

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