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Dubai’s Role in Facilitating Corruption and Global Illicit Financial Flows

Read here: https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/07/07/dubai-s-role-in-facilitating-corruption-and-global-illicit-financial-flows-pub-82180 Link to PDF of report: https://carnegieendowment.org/files/PageVittori_DubaiCorruption_final.pdf

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Coinbase wants to sell blockchain analysis software to the IRS and DEA a year after its Neutrino acquisition

Read here: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/67551/coinbase-irs-dea-analytics-neutrino

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Nicolás Maduro Moros and 14 Current and Former Venezuelan Officials Charged with Narco-Terrorism, Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Criminal Charges

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/nicol-s-maduro-moros-and-14-current-and-former-venezuelan-officials-charged-narco-terrorism

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Global Study On Firearms Trafficking 2020

Read here: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/firearms-protocol/firearms-study.html Link to report: https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Firearms/2020_REPORT_Global_Study_on_Firearms_Trafficking_2020_web.pdf

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The DeFi ‘Flash Loan’ Attack That Changed Everything

Read here: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/02/27/the-defi-flash-loan-attack-that-changed-everything/

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How the Gilded Age’s Top 1 Percent Thrived on Corruption

Read here: https://www.history.com/news/gilded-age-corruption-corporate-wealth

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A Green Gold Rush: Potent Marijuana [known collectively as “cripa,” “cripy,” or “creepy”] Big Business For Colombia Traffickers

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/a-green-gold-rush-potent-marijuana-big-business-for-colombia-traffickers/

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Terrorist Use of Cryptocurrencies: Technical and Organizational Barriers and Future Threats

Read here: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3026.html Link to report here: https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3026/RAND_RR3026.pdf

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The Tinder Swindler

Read here: https://www.vg.no/spesial/2019/tindersvindleren/english/

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Britain’s Secret War in Colombia

Read here: https://jacobin.com/2018/11/uk-colombia-political-violence-bp-drug-war-counterinsurgency

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Automated money-laundering scheme found in free-to-play games

Read here: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/07/19/automated-money-laundering-scheme-found-in-free-to-play-games/

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Civil Money Penalty Order: Laura Akahoshi – Former Chief Compliance Officer Rabobank

Read here: https://www.occ.gov/static/enforcement-actions/eaN18-002.pdf

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Suriname: The New Paradigm Of A Criminalized State

Read here: https://www.securefreesociety.org/research/march-2017-issue-3/ Link to report: https://www.securefreesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Global-Dispatch-Issue-3-FINAL.pdf

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Silk Road: Ross Ulbricht, A/K/A “Dread Pirate Roberts,” Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To Life In Prison

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ross-ulbricht-aka-dread-pirate-roberts-sentenced-manhattan-federal-court-life-prison

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Cocaine Incorporated

Read here: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-drug-cartel-makes-its-billions.html

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Banking on Terror by Robert Mazur

Read here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/banking-on-terror_b_779057

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European Union plans to combat counterfeiting with NFTs by 2023

Read here: https://finbold.com/european-union-plans-to-combat-counterfeiting-with-nfts-by-2023/

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Between Coca and Cocaine: A Century or More of U.S.- Peruvian Drug Paradoxes, 1860-1980

Read here: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/publication/gootenberg-wp251.pdf

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