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Fugitive Prince, Sugar, Children's Books

2 months ago | mailchi.mp | Miles Johnson |Caity Weaver |Chris Hayes |Elizabeth Austin

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El régimen de Assad envió 250 millones de dólares de Siria a Moscú

Dec 16, 2024 | expansion.com | Miles Johnson
Assad dispatched $250m of Syria’s cash to Moscow

Dec 15, 2024 | irishtimes.com | Miles Johnson |Mehul Srivastava |Chloe Cornish

Bashar al-Assad’s central bank airlifted about $250 million in cash to Moscow in a two-year period when the then Syrian dictator was indebted to the Kremlin for military support and his relatives were secretly buying assets in Russia.
Reino Unido encuentra un esquema ruso para lavar criptomonedas

Dec 5, 2024 | milenio.com | Miles Johnson |Suzi Ring

Una operación liderada por Reino Unido descubrió una red de lavado de dinero multimillonaria que funcionaba desde Londres, Moscú y Dubái y que permitía a espías rusos y narcotraficantes europeos evadir sanciones utilizando criptomonedas.
UK uncovers vast crypto laundering scheme for gangsters and Russian spies

Dec 4, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Miles Johnson |Suzi Ring

Rescuers working at the site of a missile attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Parts of a Russian-speaking money laundering network interacted with a crypto exchange used to procure western technology for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Photo / Ukrainian Emergency ServiceA UK-led operation has uncovered a multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme run out of London, Moscow and Dubai that enabled Russian spies and European drug traffickers to evade sanctions using cryptocurrency.
UK uncovers vast crypto laundering scheme for gangsters and Russian spies

Dec 4, 2024 | businessandamerica.com | Miles Johnson

A UK-led operation has uncovered a multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme run out of London, Moscow and Dubai that enabled Russian spies and European drug traffickers to evade sanctions using cryptocurrency. The UK’s National Crime Agency said on Wednesday that its “Operation Destabilise” investigation centred on two companies — Smart and TGR — that acted as a financial hub for cash-rich global criminals and sanctioned individuals relying on cryptocurrency outside the banking system.
Modernizing partnership taxation

Sep 25, 2024 | brookings.edu | Miles Johnson |Sophia Yan |Chye-Ching Huang |Grace Henley

Partnership tax reform should be a key part of the current and upcoming tax policy debate, with large parts of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) set to expire at the end of 2025. Partnerships represent almost 30 percent of all business income in the United States, now outnumbering C corporations. For federal tax purposes, partners are taxed directly on their share of the partnership’s income and activities.
Prigozhin secretly used JPMorgan and HSBC for Wagner payments

Sep 24, 2024 | luxtimes.lu | Miles Johnson |Ortenca Aliaj |Joshua Franklin
What happened to Russia’s seized superyachts

Jul 25, 2024 | afr.com | Miles Johnson

Miles JohnsonJul 26, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? On the morning of March 29, 2022, Captain Guy Booth was working aboard Phi, a 192 ft aquamarine superyacht moored in London’s Canary Wharf, when he heard a commotion below.
Hawaii Wraps Up Sandbox: Crypto Firms No Longer Need State Money Transmitter Licenses

Jul 1, 2024 | wealthinsidermag.com | Miles Johnson

The U.S. state of Hawaii’s regulatory sandbox concludes today. Crypto companies will no longer require a Hawaii-issued money transmitter license to conduct business within the state. However, they must comply with federal regulations. Hawaii’s Regulatory Sandbox Concludes The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs of Hawaii and the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) issued an […]