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Crypto firm moved $4.2m of assets to digital wallet linked to alleged Russian arms dealer
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Quick Glance: Crypto Firm Transferred $4.2m to Wallet of Alleged Russian Arms Dealer
  • A UK cryptocurrency firm transferred digital assets worth over $4.2 million to a crypto wallet owned by a member of an alleged Russian arms-dealing network who was later sanctioned by the United States.

  • Transactions by Copper Technologies raise questions about UK laws governing the cryptocurrency industry adapting quickly enough to keep up with the evolving sector under scrutiny for providing anonymity.

  • An analysis of cryptocurrency transactions highlights a connection between Copper and Jonatan Zimenkov, an Israeli-born Russian national.

  • Revelations shed light on the opaque world of cryptocurrency, its anonymity, and the need for regulation of digital assets within the financial system.
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US sanctions hackers for targeting critical infrastructure for Chinese spy agency
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US sanctions hackers for targeting critical infrastructure for Chinese spy ...
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U.S. SEC Asking for More Millions, Dozens of Lawyers to Beef Up Crypto Oversight: The securities regulator, Treasury Department and U.S. derivatives watchdog are ...
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U.S. SEC Asking for More Millions, Dozens of Lawyers to Beef Up Crypto ...
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The Department of the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, OFAC, has sanctioned three procurement networks based in Iran, Oman, Turkey ... Show more
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U.S. SEC Asking for More Millions, Dozens of Lawyers to Beef Up Crypto Oversight: The securities regulator, Treasury Department and U.S. derivatives watchdog are ...
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U.S. SEC Asking for More Millions, Dozens of Lawyers to Beef Up Crypto ...
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Banks face steep fines in terror financing war: Commercial banks and officials face steep fines for facilitating terrorism financiers.
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Banks face steep fines in terror financing war
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US announces ban on import of Russian diamonds: The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Feb. 8 imposed a ban on non-industrial diamonds mined in ...
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US announces ban on import of Russian diamonds
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Sudan: Govt Welcomes New U.S Special Envoy: Sudanese leaders and commentators have welcomed the announcement by the US State Dept on Monday of the appointment of ...
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Sudan: Govt Welcomes New U.S Special Envoy
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North Korea-linked hackers attacked record number of crypto platforms: Report: North Korea-linked hackers attacked a record number of crypto platforms and stole ...
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North Korea-linked hackers attacked record number of crypto platforms: ...
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US reimposes some sanctions after Venezuela bans presidential hopeful: Venezuela’s Supreme Court upheld a 15-year ban on opposition leader Maria Corina Machado ...
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US reimposes some sanctions after Venezuela bans presidential hopeful
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Never mind the recent rally, for a decade the crypto industry has been selling the promise of decentralization, a new financial system without middlemen ... Show more
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US reimposes sanctions on Venezuela: The United States has reimposed sanctions on Venezuela following a ruling by the Venezuelan Supreme Court to uphold a ...
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US reimposes sanctions on Venezuela
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US announces new sanctions aimed at enforcing price cap on Russian oil: The sanctions announced by OFAC on Feb. 8 were targeted at three companies based in the ...
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US announces new sanctions aimed at enforcing price cap on Russian oil
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US tightens sanctions on Russian diamond imports: Latest news from Ukraine today. US tightens sanctions on Russian diamond imports. Follow updates on Euromaidan ...
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US tightens sanctions on Russian diamond imports
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US slaps new sanctions over Russian oil price cap breach: The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Jan ...
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US slaps new sanctions over Russian oil price cap breach
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Barring Speakers Under U.S. Sanctions Puts Ideas Off-Limits, Say Free Speech Advocates
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Barring Speakers Under U.S. Sanctions Puts Ideas Off-Limits ...
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US presents new sanctions to tighten Russian oil price cap: The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Dec. 20 new sanctions targeting companies shipping Russian ...
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US presents new sanctions to tighten Russian oil price cap
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Putin's Oil Trade Gambit Flops Amid Sanctions: Sanctioned Russian tankers idle, unable to deliver millions of barrels of oil to India.
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Putin's Oil Trade Gambit Flops Amid Sanctions
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US targets Hamas finances with new sanctions: The Treasury Department has imposed an additional round of sanctions aimed at Hamas.  Treasury’s Office of Foreign ...
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US targets Hamas finances with new sanctions
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Liberian Mayor Jefferson Koijee Sanctioned for Human Rights Violations: MONROVIA – Monrovia City Mayor and Secretary General of the Coalition for Democratic ...
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Liberian Mayor Jefferson Koijee Sanctioned for Human Rights Violations
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North Korea says any US interference with its ‘space assets’ will be deemed ‘declaration of war’
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North Korea says any US interference with its ‘space assets’ will be ...
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He does it all: military captain, lawmaker, alleged boss of cartel drowning U.S. in drugs
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He does it all: military captain, lawmaker, alleged boss of cartel ...
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Over $300M in stolen crypto assets reached Bitcoin mixers in 2023: While Tornado Cash remains a popular mixer for smaller-scale exploits, incidents involving $50 ...
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Over $300M in stolen crypto assets reached Bitcoin mixers in 2023
Quick Glance: Bitcoin Price Dip Threatens Historic Win Streak, but 'Perfect Storm' for Strong 2024
  • Bitcoin's price at $41,800, down 4% this week, first eight-week streak of gains since 2017 at risk.

  • BTC to hit $75,000 early 2024 as U.S. spot bitcoin ETF approval and halving narratives combine, predicted by WOO Network.

  • Bitcoin saw $860 million of net inflows into crypto exchanges during the week, the highest level since March, as noted by IntoTheBlock on Friday.

  • Many investors decided to take some profits after the 65% rally from $27,000 in October, indicating an intention to sell.
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‘Concerning precedent’ — BloXroute Labs’ MEV relays to reject OFAC blocks: BloXroute Labs says all of its MEV relays will now censor OFAC transactions on ...
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‘Concerning precedent’ — BloXroute Labs’ MEV relays to reject OFAC blocks
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Bosnia Arrests Former Intelligence Chief, Head of State Court: Bosnia's State Investigation and Protection Agency arrested the former director of the state ...
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Bosnia Arrests Former Intelligence Chief, Head of State Court
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CoinList Reaches $1.2M Settlement With OFAC Over Alleged Sanctions Violation: CoinList, a cryptocurrency exchange based in the United States, has agreed to a ...
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CoinList Reaches $1.2M Settlement With OFAC Over Alleged Sanctions ...
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Washington and London have jointly sanctioned a new list of Hamas supporters and financers, including three names from Turkey ... Show more
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Liberia: CDC SG Jefferson Koijee Says U.S. Sanctions on Him Is the “Biggest Conspiracy against Me”
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Liberia: CDC SG Jefferson Koijee Says U.S. Sanctions on Him Is the ...
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Tether Freezes 41 Crypto Wallets Tied to Sanctions: Several of the frozen wallets had been using Tornado Cash over the past six months.
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Tether Freezes 41 Crypto Wallets Tied to Sanctions
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US, UK sanction Russian FSB agent, accomplice involved in multi-year cyber attacks
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US, UK sanction Russian FSB agent, accomplice involved in multi-year cyber ...
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Central bank lifts restrictions on FX sales: The National Bank of Ukraine on Dec. 1 lifted all restrictions on financial institutions linked to the sales of ...
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Central bank lifts restrictions on FX sales
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The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Dec. 5 imposed new sanctions targeting an international weapons procurement network that Washington says ... Show more
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US deploys fresh sanctions on entities trading Russian oil: The Office of Foreign Assets Control on Dec. 1 imposed fresh sanctions on three transnational ...
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US deploys fresh sanctions on entities trading Russian oil
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US sanctions Russian accused of laundering Ryuk ransomware funds: The U.S. government has sanctioned a Russian national for allegedly laundering millions of ...
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US sanctions Russian accused of laundering Ryuk ransomware funds
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Binance to Make 'Complete Exit' From U.S., Pay Billions to FinCEN, OFAC on Top of DOJ Settlement
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Binance to Make 'Complete Exit' From U.S., Pay Billions to FinCEN ...
Quick Glance: Binance Faces Billions in Fines, CEO to Step Down Over Money Laundering Charges
  • Founder and CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, also known as 'CZ', plans to step down and plead guilty to violating US anti-money laundering regulations, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

  • The crypto exchange did not respond to multiple requests for comment from TechCrunch regarding the charges.

  • Binance was founded in June 2017 and quickly rose to become the world's largest crypto exchange within 180 days.

  • In the past 24 hours, Binance's trading volume exceeded $11.6 billion, marking a 515% increase over the second largest exchange, Coinbase, according to CoinMarketCap data.
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'IRAN SYMPATHIZER': Republican lawmakers expose the Biden-nominee: trib.al/RIGpWEW
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Biden's nominee to serve as Israel ambassador faces GOP grilling over past Iranian nuclear policies
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Biden's nominee to serve as Israel ambassador faces GOP grilling over past ...
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A tale of setbacks as Venezuela's Citgo heads to US auction: For the past four years, the United States protected oil refiner Citgo Petroleum from creditors ...
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A tale of setbacks as Venezuela's Citgo heads to US auction
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The EU paradox with tackling sanctions circumvention: The EU has long opposed any extraterritorial application of sanctions. However, faced with reality ...
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The EU paradox with tackling sanctions circumvention
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DRAGON GAS LIFELINE - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday: The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has granted Trinidad and Tobago permission to pay Venezuela for ...
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DRAGON GAS LIFELINE - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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Blockchain Association files support in suit to lift Tornado Cash sanctions: Crypto advocacy group the Blockchain Association again filed an amicus brief ...
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Blockchain Association files support in suit to lift Tornado Cash ...
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JPMorgan Chase accused of de-banking, defaming a Florida business: A medical services company is suing the nation's largest bank, alleging that it refused ...
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JPMorgan Chase accused of de-banking, defaming a Florida business
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Fresh Russian Shelling, Strikes Leave Dead, Wounded Civilians In Several Ukrainian Regions
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Fresh Russian Shelling, Strikes Leave Dead, Wounded Civilians In Several ...
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Canada wants to give seized Russian plane parked in Toronto to Ukraine: Three days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an Antonov-124 jet landed at Toronto Pearson ...
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Canada wants to give seized Russian plane parked in Toronto to Ukraine
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Ukraine state-owned enterprises weekly — Issue 109: Editor’s Note: This is issue 109 of Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprises Weekly, covering events from Oct ...
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Ukraine state-owned enterprises weekly — Issue 109
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U.S. Temporarily Lifts Some Venezuela Oil Sanctions: On October 18, 2023, the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced a ...
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U.S. Temporarily Lifts Some Venezuela Oil Sanctions
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Russian Court Prolongs Detention Of RFE/RL Journalist Until December 5: A Russian court has accepted a request by prosecutors to extend the detention of RFE/RL ...
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Russian Court Prolongs Detention Of RFE/RL Journalist Until December 5
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🔴 The US Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on Milorad Dodik’s adult children, Igor and Gorica, as well as on four companies associated with ... Show more
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U.S. sanctions Canadian businessman, lab in fentanyl supply chain crackdown: In an interview with Global News, an emotional Bobby Shah denied U.S ...
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U.S. sanctions Canadian businessman, lab in fentanyl supply chain ...
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Ethereum Wallet Tied to Sinaloa Cartel Sanctioned by U.S. Government: The wallet is tied to a money laundering operation that transfers proceeds from fentanyl ...
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Ethereum Wallet Tied to Sinaloa Cartel Sanctioned by U.S. Government
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Sudan conflict: US imposes sanctions on two companies, Sudans former minister over instability
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Sudan conflict: US imposes sanctions on two companies, Sudans former ...
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Ethereum OFAC compliance dips to 45% post-Merge upgrade: In November 2022, 78% of the total Ethereum blocks complied with OFAC regulations.
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Ethereum OFAC compliance dips to 45% post-Merge upgrade
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Founders of crypto mixer arrested, sanctioned after U.S. cracks down: Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned Roman Semenov ...
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Founders of crypto mixer arrested, sanctioned after U.S. cracks down
Quick Glance: Tornado Cash: Billion USD Money Laundering Charges
  • Tornado Cash founders charged in the USA

  • Accused of aiding criminals in laundering stolen cryptocurrencies

  • Failure to establish effective anti-money laundering or KYC program facilitated money laundering of stolen funds
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3M to pay $9.6 million to feds for selling products to Iran: The U.S. Treasury Department says an employee with the Minnesota-based corporation violated ...
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3M to pay $9.6 million to feds for selling products to Iran
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India asks US to release funds frozen over alleged links to Russia’s Alrosa : India has asked the United States to release $26 million belonging to at least two ...
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India asks US to release funds frozen over alleged links to Russia’s ...
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In Serbia, US Sanctions Pose No Obstacle to Public Contracts: Serbian companies and alleged crime figures sanctioned by the United States in late 2021 have since ...
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In Serbia, US Sanctions Pose No Obstacle to Public Contracts
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US imposes sanctions on 2 individuals, 1 entity for funding NK's illegal weapons program
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US imposes sanctions on 2 individuals, 1 entity for funding NK's ...
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Twelve Still Missing As Debris Cleared After Deadly, Unexplained Blast Outside Moscow
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Twelve Still Missing As Debris Cleared After Deadly, Unexplained Blast ...
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Russian Drones Target Kharkiv, As Moscow Office Tower Hit: Russia struck Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv with at least three drones overnight ...
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Russian Drones Target Kharkiv, As Moscow Office Tower Hit
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The risks are rising for Western firms in Russia. So why are so many staying put?
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The risks are rising for Western firms in Russia. So why are so many ...
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Congo-Kinshasa: U.S. Sanctions Those Contributing to Conflict Escalation in DR Congo
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Congo-Kinshasa: U.S. Sanctions Those Contributing to Conflict Escalation ...
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Bangladesh bank freezes accounts belonging to U.S.-sanctioned Myanmar bankswww.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/bangladesh-bank-08162023164740.html
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Forensic audit accuses Lebanon’s Riad Salameh of embezzlement of state resources: The former Governor of Banque du Liban (BDL) or the central bank of Lebanon ...
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Forensic audit accuses Lebanon’s Riad Salameh of embezzlement of state ...