Day: February 25, 2024

Written by FinCrime

Israel can’t destroy Hamas as global funding ‘immune from shells’, experts say

Reported by Sam Rucker Hamas’s international financial web is now “immune fromIsraeli shells”, experts believe – meaning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will struggle to achieve his goal of destroying the militant group. Stephen Reimer, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (Rus) specialising in financial crime, told i that “the total destruction of Hamas” would […]

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The Biggest Ever Sanctions Have Failed to Halt Russia’s War Machine

Reported by Laurence Norman and Georgi Kantchev Two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Western sanctions have failed in their most important task—stopping the Kremlin’s war machine. Russia has used shell companies and neighboring countries to buy components used in weapons. And it has obtained a large number of old vessels operating under opaque ownership […]