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U.S. pot sellers stash cash as banks leave them high and dry

Read here: https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/u-pot-sellers-stash-cash-061617607.html

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Lack Of Transparency Over Vaccine Trials, Secretive Contracts And ‘Science By Press Release’ Risks Success Of Global COVID-19 Response

Read here: https://www.transparency.org.uk/covid-19-coronavirus-vaccines-clinicial-trials-results-contract-transparency-research

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Environmental Activist Killed in Mexico After Denouncing Illegal Logging

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/14478-environmental-activist-killed-in-mexico-after-denouncing-illegal-logging

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EU imposes new economic sanctions on Belarus over ‘hijacked’ flight

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/24/belarus-put-on-notice-of-sanctions-over-hijack-of-ryanair-flight

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Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) takes action against non-compliant international crypto asset trading platform

Read here: https://www.osc.ca/en/news-events/news/osc-takes-action-against-non-compliant-international-crypto-asset-trading-platform

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Ireland: ‘Cash for visas’ scheme gave 179 million euro to investment funds since 2012

Read here: https://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/irish-news/cash-for-visas-scheme-gave-179-million-euro-to-investment-funds-since-2012-40460301.html

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How Libya’s human smuggling industry evolved to cash in on captivity

Read here: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/how-libyas-human-smuggling-industry-evolved-to-cash-in-on-captivity.873859

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‘Greater than previously thought’: Crown money laundering suspected as recently as February

Read here: https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/greater-than-previously-thought-crown-money-laundering-suspected-as-recently-as-february-20210524-p57uks.html

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How Denmark Proposes to Combat Money Laundering in Europe

Read here: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-24/how-denmark-proposes-to-combat-money-laundering-in-europe

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National Crime Agency joins Evening Standard’s court battle to name couple in £14m ‘laundromat’ case

Read here: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/national-crime-agency-secret-justice-name-couple-14m-pound-laundromat-case-b936578.html

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Scam City: The unlicensed ‘forex trader’ who lost £3.8 million

Read here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/1bee6bdc-9cc6-4415-84fc-6536ec31d46c

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The Panama Papers Double Cross: How a spy-for-hire got closely guarded dirt on the global elite

Read here: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/how-mark-hollingsworth-got-access-to-the-panama-papers.html

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North Korea Escape Plan Could Send US Man To Jail

Read here: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bradleyhope1/north-korea-escape-madrid-christopher-ahn

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DeFi Beyond the Hype: The Emerging World of Decentralized Finance

Read here: https://wifpr.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/DeFi-Beyond-the-Hype.pdf

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Huawei founder urges shift to software to counter US sanctions

Read here: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/exclusive-huawei-founder-urges-shift-to-software-to-counter-us-sanctions-14877194

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Charges Unsealed Against Former Chadian Diplomats to the U.S. Charged in Connection with International Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/charges-unsealed-against-former-chadian-diplomats-us-charged-connection-international-bribery

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Australian authorities investigate OnlyFans for feasible web links to economic criminal offense

Read here: https://technotrenz.com/news/australian-authorities-investigate-onlyfans-for-feasible-web-links-to-economic-criminal-offense-872691.html

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Taking Off: wildlife trafficking in the Latin America and Caribbean region

Read here: https://www.traffic.org/site/assets/files/14510/routes_taking_off_report.pdf

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Operation Symbolry – Romanian trucker who tried to smuggle alleged child sex offender out of the UK jailed for six years

Read here: https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/operation-symbolry-romanian-trucker-who-tried-to-smuggle-alleged-child-sex-offender-out-of-the-uk-jailed-for-six-years

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Iraqi President: Corruption Liquidated At Least $150B Since 2003

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/14473-iraqi-president-corruption-melted-at-least-150b-since-2003

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Dubai gold trader fined Dh1.35m for failing to comply with anti-money laundering and terrorism financing laws

Read here: https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/economy/dubai-gold-trader-fined-dh1-35m-for-failing-to-comply-with-anti-money-laundering-and-terrorism-financing-laws-1.1228369

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Cambodia Takes a Look at Royal ‘Oknha’ Nobleman Titles After Scandals

Read here: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/nobleman-tites-05212021184344.html

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Joint Statement on U.S.-UK Financial Regulatory Working Group Meeting

Read here: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0197

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The Rise and Fall of a U.S. Oilman in Iraq

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/the-rise-and-fall-of-a-us-oilman-in-iraq

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Syria’s Reconstruction Tax Props up the Assad Regime

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/37-ccblog/ccblog/14459-syria-s-reconstruction-tax-props-up-the-assad-regime

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Why vessels passing near Iran may have trouble staying on course

Read here: https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2021/05/22/why-vessels-passing-near-iran-may-have-trouble-staying-on-course

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Victims say Lloyds has rewritten fraud history

Read here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/victims-say-lloyds-has-rewritten-fraud-history-kj9h5jt0w

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How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Millions of Barrels of Oil

Read here: https://www.elliptic.co/blog/how-iran-uses-bitcoin-mining-to-evade-sanctions

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Colonialism Redux: How the EU Is Punishing a Tiny Island Nation for Not ‘Playing Fair’

Read here: https://thediplomat.com/2021/05/colonialism-redux-how-the-eu-is-punishing-a-tiny-island-nation-for-not-playing-fair/

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Iran and Hezbollah are establishing a foothold in Canada

Read here: https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/05/21/iran-hezbollah-foothold-in-canada/

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NatWest faces ‘significant’ damage to reputation as it becomes first bank to appear in court on criminal charges over money laundering, lawyers say

Read here: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-9607541/NatWests-365m-laundering-trial-hurt-banks-name.html

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London Capital & Finance spent £70m of bondholders’ cash on firm with two fraudsters

Read here: https://www.standard.co.uk/business/london-capital-finance-lcf-fraudsters-lakeview-cornwall-fraud-sfo-b936592.html

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Conditions set for man’s release in virtual currency case

Read here: https://apnews.com/article/nh-state-wire-business-a03ba41c68b151571337e75214b1f430

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Dutch Court Rules Bitonic No Longer Requires Crypto Wallet Verification

Read here: https://www.coindesk.com/dutch-court-rules-bitonic-no-longer-requires-crypto-wallet-verification

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FCA announces plans to stop CMC phoenixing

Read here: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/fca-announces-plans-stop-cmc-phoenixing

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Maduro’s Government Seizes Offices of Independent Newspaper

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/14451-maduro-s-government-seizes-offices-of-independent-newspaper

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Alleged Ringleader of International Methamphetamine Trafficking Operation Extradited to the United States from France

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/alleged-ringleader-international-methamphetamine-trafficking-operation-extradited

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Swiss justice fines South American football official

Read here: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-justice-fines-south-american-football-official/46642402

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Three Cathay Pacific Crew Members Face Bribery Charges

Read here: https://simpleflying.com/cathay-crew-bribery-charges/

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