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US Announces Sanctions Against Nicaragua's Attorney General

According to the Treasury, the sanctions are related to Morales Urbina's conduct after the 2018 civil protests.

Latin Times

Crypto firm moved $4.2m of assets to digital wallet linked to alleged Russian arms dealer

Analysis shows link between Copper Technologies and Jonatan Zimenkov, who was later hit with US sanctions over Ukraine invasion

The Guardian - UK

US Bans 10 Crypto Addresses Linked To LockBit Ransomware Group

The Treasury's OFAC has blacklisted 10 Bitcoin and Ether addresses that it said were linked to two LockBit-associated individuals.

International Business Times

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Treasury’s Wally Adeyemo wants to crack down on illicit finance enabled by crypto: ‘A clear and present danger for national security’

The Treasury deputy secretary is laying out a new approach to the digital asset industry.

Fortune

Used by North Korea–linked hackers, Sinbad.io becomes 3rd crypto mixer slapped with U.S. sanctions in last 18 months

Sinbad.io is the third crypto mixer to be sanctioned by OFAC since May 2022.

Fortune

Government Blocking of "Tornado Cash" Cryptocurrency-Related Service Was Legal, Didn't Violate First Amendment

From Monday's opinion by Judge T. Kent Wetherell, II (N.D. Fla.) in Coin Center v. Yellen (for a similar decision, see this August post about Van Loon v. Dep't of Treasury): Plaintiffs argue that [the government's restriction on the use of] Tornado Cash [a mechanism for further anonymizing cryptocurrency transactions]…

Reason

Court orders attachment of property linked to Khalistan Liberation Force’s “narco-terror” module accused

The NIA had registered the case on January 22, 2020, based on the original first information report (FIR) dated May 31, 2019.

The Hindu

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First Indian companies sanctioned over trade with Russia, report reveals

Punitive sanctions were imposed on Indian businesses for links with world’s biggest diamond miner Alrosa

The Independent UK

Government Blocking of "Tornado Cash" Cryptocurrency-Related Service Was Legal, Didn't Violate First Amendment

So a federal court held Thursday.

Reason

Foes of Myanmar's military regime applaud new US sanctions, but want action to block gas revenues

Opponents of Myanmar's military government are applauding fresh financial sanctions imposed by the United States on the Southeast Asian nation

The Independent UK

Family of ex-Bosnian Serb leader sues US to escape sanctions list

Family members of former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic, who was convicted of war crimes for his role in the 1990s Balkan conflict, sued the U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday over their continued inclusion on a U.S. sanctions list.

Reuters

US announces sanctions against Assad cousins over drug trade

US Treasury officials say that the Assad government has used drug trafficking as a source of illicit revenue.

Al Jazeera

Antigua and Barbuda to auction off $81m yacht ‘owned by Russian oligarch’

Andrey Guryev, who has been put under UK government sanctions, claims he is not owner of Alfa Nero

The Guardian - UK

Key Hezbollah Financier Faces 20 Years in Prison

A US federal prosecutor announced the arrest of a Lebanese-Belgian citizen considered a major financier of Iran-backed Hezbollah in the Romanian capital, Bucharest. US Attorney Breon Peace in Brooklyn said that Mohammed Ibrahim Bazzi, 58, designated by the US as a “global terrorist” in 2018, when it offered $10 million…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Al Jazeera

US exempts Syrian earthquake aid from sanctions

The new rules are designed to speed up deliveries.

Fortune

The future of U.S. crypto sanctions

A new Chainalysis report highlights how the Office of Foreign Assets Control has been targeting bad actors in the crypto sector.

Reason

Governments Scramble To Manage, Regulate, and Throttle Crypto

Most dangerously of all, they're starting to make their own central bank digital currencies.

Tribune News Service

Chevron to resume Venezuela oil output as US eases sanctions

The Biden administration granted Chevron a license to resume oil production in Venezuela after U.S. sanctions halted all drilling activities almost three years ago.

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Reuters

U.S. allows transactions to free sanctioned oil tanker stranded in Indonesia

The United States has allowed some transactions to take place with a sanctioned oil supertanker in efforts to free the vessel currently stranded in Indonesian waters, the U.S. embassy in Singapore said on Wednesday.

Daily Record

Scots vodka queen and gangland hubby were 'neighbours from hell' before Spain arrest

Residents at the block of flats told how the couple quickly got on their wrong side after moving in over the summer having swapped their £4.5m mansion for an apartment.

Daily Record

Dramatic moment Spanish cops arrest Scots couple accused of gangland money laundering

Johnny Morrissey was handcuffed, alongside his wife Nicola, at dawn before being led away by a crack team of Spanish investigators.

The Guardian - UK

TechScape: How a major change to ethereum could change cryptocurrency forever

In this week’s newsletter: Ethereum turning off its mining rigs and slashing the currency’s carbon emissions should be good news. But not everyone agrees

Reuters

Sanctioned Venezuelan staves off auction of New York City apartment

A Venezuelan media mogul sanctioned by the United States said he has received permission from Washington to make the payments necessary to avoid losing a luxury New York City apartment.

The Guardian - AU

Russia defaults on debt for first time since 1998 – reports

Kremlin owes about $40bn but has been shut out of international financial system since invasion of Ukraine

Benzinga

US Treasury Sanctions A Crypto Mixer For The First Time

The U.S. Treasury's Department of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) just sanctioned a cryptocurrency mixer for the first time ever.

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