Reported by Chris Cook (Summary shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.ft.com/content/372d018c-df75-4bf8-9699-7f87b8511c37?syn-25a6b1a6=1) The article examines how A7, the Kremlin-backed payment network, built and continually replaced a large system of front companies to move Russian money through the international financial system despite sanctions. The U.S. Treasury recently designated A7 as a Transnational Criminal Organization […]

Reported by Nicole Brockbank (Summary featured below. To read full report, go to: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/crypto-king-fraud-trial-begins-toronto-aiden-pleterski-9.7370119) Aiden Pleterski, the self-described “Crypto King,” has gone on trial in Toronto on charges of fraud over $5,000 and laundering proceeds of crime. Pleterski, 27, has pleaded not guilty and is representing himself after an Ontario Superior Court judge rejected his […]