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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

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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

US exempts Syrian earthquake aid from sanctions

The new rules are designed to speed up deliveries.

Al Jazeera

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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.

Fortune

Governments Scramble To Manage, Regulate, and Throttle Crypto

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

Reason

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.

Tribune News Service

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.

Reuters

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.

Daily Record

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

The Guardian - UK

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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.

Manchester Evening News

Former Rochdale doorman branded Kinahan cartel 'enforcer' in US government sanctions against infamous Irish cartel

Johnny Morrissey, 62, now living in Spain, has been accused of facilitating international drug shipments from south America into Europe

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The Guardian - AU

Australia’s Toll Holdings to pay US$6m for ‘reckless disregard’ of US sanctions

Logistics firm self-reported almost 3,000 violations of sanctions targeting terrorism and regimes in North Korea, Iran and Syria, US treasury says

Irish Mirror

Kinahan gang's luxury homes around the world revealed - including lavish pads in Dubai and Spain

The location of luxury homes belonging to the most senior members of the Kinahan cartel have been laid bare by US authorities

Irish Mirror

The seven 'key members' of the Kinahan cartel wanted by cops for huge rewards

Seven key members of the group were named by the OFAC in a statement, alongside three associated businesses

Belfast Live

Kinahan crime gang bosses put on US wanted list with $5m reward

Drew Harris warns senior gang members can run but “can’t hide from justice forever”

Irish Mirror

Kinahans join most wanted list as $5 million reward offered and gangsters warned 'they can't hide forever'

It comes as a US government department imposed sanctions against seven senior members of the Kinahan crime gang

The Independent UK

Kinahan cartel: US offers $5m reward for information on ‘murderous’ Irish crime gang

The treasury has imposed sanctions on seven senior members of the Irish organised crime group

The Independent UK

US sanctions seven senior Kinahan gang members

A number of businesses were also identified as being associated with the crime gang.

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