Reported by Jo Becker and Justin Scheck Israeli security officials scored a major intelligence coup in 2018: secret documents that laid out, in intricate detail, what amounted to a private equity fund that Hamas used to finance its operations. The ledgers, pilfered from the computer of a senior Hamas official, listed assets worth hundreds of […]
Reported by Philip Heijmans and Niki Koswanage Malaysia’s government can’t rule out whether a local charity funneled millions of dollars to Hamas, according to officials familiar with the matter, as it probes the group for allegedly supporting a conservative Islamist organization in the Southeast Asian nation. Malaysia’s anti-graft body on Oct. 17 froze as many as 41 […]
Reported by novayagazeta.eu Russia has imported at least 1,000 luxury cars worth a total of €93 million via Belarus in breach of EU sanctions since the start of the war in Ukraine, a joint investigation by independent media outlets Verstka and Buro with contributions from the Belarusian hacker collective Cyber Partisans revealed on Monday. Many […]
Reported by James Rothwell and Michael Bow Investors with prior knowledge of the Oct 7 Hamas massacre earned at least tens of millions of pounds short-selling Israeli stocks in the days before, according to a report. Traders with potential links to Hamas put huge bets against the Israeli economy in the run-up to the attack and […]
Reported by VICTOR JACK AND GABRIEL GAVIN A Western effort to cap Russia’s oil revenues after Moscow launched its war on Ukraine has essentially failed a year since it was first agreed, a new report seen by POLITICO found, prompting renewed pleas from Kyiv for its allies to take tougher action. G7 nations and the […]
Reported by Jon Levine The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has links to two groups the Israeli government designated “terrorist organizations,” a review of public records by The Post shows. Founded in 1940, the famous clan’s $1.3 billion fund — where Justin, Wyatt and David Rockefeller Jr. sit on the board of trustees — has shelled out […]
Reported by JOSEPH BOUCHARD It’s been a tumultuous two weeks in Venezuela. First, the Biden administration and the Maduro government signed a deal exchanging democratic guarantees for sanctions relief on oil, natural gas, and gold mining — some of Venezuela’s largest industries. With the sanctions lifted, Maduro allowed the opposition’s primary election to go ahead. María Corina Machado, […]
Reported by Spencer Woodman New details have emerged about an ongoing criminal investigation by Cyprus authorities into how one of Russia’s richest men may have used the Mediterranean country as a conduit to avoid war-related sanctions. As part of the Cyprus Confidential investigation, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists examined a major transfer of wealth by billionaire Alexey Mordashov […]
Reported by David Yaffe-Bellany, Emily Flitter, Matthew Goldstein and Glenn Thrush Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, pleaded guilty to money laundering violations, a stunning blow to the most powerful and influential figure in the global crypto industry. Binance itself also pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $4.3 […]
Reported by Evan Halper, Dalton Bennett and Jonathan O’Connell After Western nations announced bans on Russian oil last year in response to the invasion of Ukraine, a Greek refinery that serves the U.S. military moved quickly to adapt. Within months, it told investors it had stopped accepting the forbidden oil and had found other sources instead. But […]
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