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🎯 Ukraine Fights for Stolen Billions: Ukraine is utilizing all legal avenues to make Moscow pay for the energy infrastructure it unlawfully took. Politico 

Top Stories

🌍 Binance Australia Investigation: As regulatory pressure increases globally, Binance is probed again, with banking partners withdrawing support. Bloomberg

🌍 OPERA1ER Cybercrime Mastermind Arrested: Africa-based cybercrime suspect nabbed following Group-IB's detailed report on the group's illegal activities. The Record

🌍 New Mar-a-Lago Dirt: Unseen photo shows 61 boxes stacked in a storage room at Trump's Florida resort. Daily Beast

🌍 US Navy Thwarts Iranian Attack on Oil Tankers: Iranian navy's attack on Chevron's Richmond Voyager foiled; crew confirmed safe. Fox News

🌍 Ukraine Grain Robbery: Investigation reveals the role of shell companies in grain export tax evasion. OCCRP

🌍 Gazprom Subsidiary Sues Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank: RusKhimAlyans seeks $348 million from the German banks. Reuters

🌍 Grillo’s Pickles Accuses Patriot Pickle of Recipe Theft: Patriot's low-priced product threatens Grillo's sales at Whole Foods. NY Post

🌍 Influential Neo-Nazi 'Dark Foreigner' Arrested in Canada: Patrick Gordon Macdonald charged with terrorist propaganda and related offenses. VICE

🌍 French Luxury Property Attracts Money Launderers: Dubious figures have been buying high-end property in France. OCCRP

🌍 Japan's Largest Port Suspends Operations Following Ransomware Attack: Port of Nagoya's container terminal operations under major threat. Bleepingcomputer

🌍 Green Mafia Loses Its Mind: Biden administration to study feasibility of blocking sunlight to combat climate change. Fox News

IN THE NEWS

Russia

🇷🇺 The Ukraine War Changed This Company Forever NY Times

🇷🇺 Little-Known Russia Wheat Exporter Takes Top Spot in a Year Bloomberg

🇷🇺 Third countries now making it 'more difficult' for Russia to acquire sanctioned goods Euro News

🇷🇺 Russia bans tiny U.S.-based NGO for "sabotaging" vast gas pipeline Reuters

And more...

China

🇨🇳 Chip wars: How semiconductors became a flashpoint in the US-China relationship Guardian

🇨🇳 China's chipmaking export curbs 'just a start', Beijing adviser warns before Yellen visit Reuters

🇨🇳 Jordan’s debt to China soars as troubled power plant sparks concerns about Beijing’s influence AP

🇨🇳 China has had a spy base in Cuba for decades Miami Herald

And more...

Corruption & Financial Crime

💰 Silver coins, promised profits, and an empty vault Fortune

💰 ‘Double agents’: Fossil-fuel lobbyists work for US groups trying to fight climate crisis Guardian

💰 Turkey seeks return of ‘stolen’ statue’s severed head CNN

💰 Feds crack down on companies marketing weed edibles in kid-friendly packaging CBS News

💰 Thames Water Rocks ESG Funds With Sewage-Tainted Green Bonds Bloomberg

And more...

Cyber

🔒 Ransomware criminals are dumping kids’ private files online after school hacks AP

🔒 New tool exploits Microsoft Teams bug to send malware to users Bleepingcomputer

🔒 EV Charger Hacking Poses a ‘Catastrophic’ Risk Wired

🔒 After Discord leak, Pentagon to tighten procedures for classified info Politico

And more...

"I think crime pays. The hours are good, you meet a lot of interesting people, you travel a lot." --Woody Allen

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