An interesting New York Post probe spotlights Cambodia’s coastal city of Sihanoukville—now dubbed the “cyber-scam capital of the world.” Trafficked workers are forced to run global crypto-investment and romance schemes that launder billions and threaten financial-system integrity.

As Western sanctions tightened, Russia turned to Kyrgyzstan as a backdoor for cross-border payments, exploiting regulatory blind spots and digital finance loopholes. This case exposes urgent vulnerabilities in Eurasian financial controls and calls for a coordinated compliance response.

A joint action day spearheaded by Spain’s Guardia Civil and Europol dismantled an international crypto-investment fraud network that siphoned €460 million from more than 5 000 victims across 30 countries. Five suspects were arrested, and a Hong Kong–based laundering architecture was seized, underscoring the regulatory blind spots that still plague virtual-asset markets.

On 20 June 2025, a Baku court sentenced seven journalists—six from corruption-focused Abzas Media and one from RFE/RL—to 7½-9 years on “currency-smuggling” and money-laundering charges. Rights groups say the verdict weaponises AML statutes to silence probes into President Ilham Aliyev’s financial networks just as Brussels deepens energy talks with Baku.

A veteran USAID contracting officer and three corporate chiefs have confessed to a decade-long bribery and securities-fraud scheme worth more than $550 million. The guilty pleas land days after Elon Musk’s blistering claim that the aid agency is “a criminal organization” run by radical-left operatives. Are the dots finally connecting?

An interesting New York Post probe spotlights Cambodia’s coastal city of Sihanoukville—now dubbed the “cyber-scam capital of the world.” Trafficked workers are forced to run global crypto-investment and romance schemes that launder billions and threaten financial-system integrity.

As Western sanctions tightened, Russia turned to Kyrgyzstan as a backdoor for cross-border payments, exploiting regulatory blind spots and digital finance loopholes. This case exposes urgent vulnerabilities in Eurasian financial controls and calls for a coordinated compliance response.

A joint action day spearheaded by Spain’s Guardia Civil and Europol dismantled an international crypto-investment fraud network that siphoned €460 million from more than 5 000 victims across 30 countries. Five suspects were arrested, and a Hong Kong–based laundering architecture was seized, underscoring the regulatory blind spots that still plague virtual-asset markets.

On 20 June 2025, a Baku court sentenced seven journalists—six from corruption-focused Abzas Media and one from RFE/RL—to 7½-9 years on “currency-smuggling” and money-laundering charges. Rights groups say the verdict weaponises AML statutes to silence probes into President Ilham Aliyev’s financial networks just as Brussels deepens energy talks with Baku.

A veteran USAID contracting officer and three corporate chiefs have confessed to a decade-long bribery and securities-fraud scheme worth more than $550 million. The guilty pleas land days after Elon Musk’s blistering claim that the aid agency is “a criminal organization” run by radical-left operatives. Are the dots finally connecting?

An interesting New York Post probe spotlights Cambodia’s coastal city of Sihanoukville—now dubbed the “cyber-scam capital of the world.” Trafficked workers are forced to run global crypto-investment and romance schemes that launder billions and threaten financial-system integrity.

As Western sanctions tightened, Russia turned to Kyrgyzstan as a backdoor for cross-border payments, exploiting regulatory blind spots and digital finance loopholes. This case exposes urgent vulnerabilities in Eurasian financial controls and calls for a coordinated compliance response.

A joint action day spearheaded by Spain’s Guardia Civil and Europol dismantled an international crypto-investment fraud network that siphoned €460 million from more than 5 000 victims across 30 countries. Five suspects were arrested, and a Hong Kong–based laundering architecture was seized, underscoring the regulatory blind spots that still plague virtual-asset markets.

On 20 June 2025, a Baku court sentenced seven journalists—six from corruption-focused Abzas Media and one from RFE/RL—to 7½-9 years on “currency-smuggling” and money-laundering charges. Rights groups say the verdict weaponises AML statutes to silence probes into President Ilham Aliyev’s financial networks just as Brussels deepens energy talks with Baku.

A veteran USAID contracting officer and three corporate chiefs have confessed to a decade-long bribery and securities-fraud scheme worth more than $550 million. The guilty pleas land days after Elon Musk’s blistering claim that the aid agency is “a criminal organization” run by radical-left operatives. Are the dots finally connecting?

An interesting New York Post probe spotlights Cambodia’s coastal city of Sihanoukville—now dubbed the “cyber-scam capital of the world.” Trafficked workers are forced to run global crypto-investment and romance schemes that launder billions and threaten financial-system integrity.

As Western sanctions tightened, Russia turned to Kyrgyzstan as a backdoor for cross-border payments, exploiting regulatory blind spots and digital finance loopholes. This case exposes urgent vulnerabilities in Eurasian financial controls and calls for a coordinated compliance response.

A joint action day spearheaded by Spain’s Guardia Civil and Europol dismantled an international crypto-investment fraud network that siphoned €460 million from more than 5 000 victims across 30 countries. Five suspects were arrested, and a Hong Kong–based laundering architecture was seized, underscoring the regulatory blind spots that still plague virtual-asset markets.

On 20 June 2025, a Baku court sentenced seven journalists—six from corruption-focused Abzas Media and one from RFE/RL—to 7½-9 years on “currency-smuggling” and money-laundering charges. Rights groups say the verdict weaponises AML statutes to silence probes into President Ilham Aliyev’s financial networks just as Brussels deepens energy talks with Baku.

A veteran USAID contracting officer and three corporate chiefs have confessed to a decade-long bribery and securities-fraud scheme worth more than $550 million. The guilty pleas land days after Elon Musk’s blistering claim that the aid agency is “a criminal organization” run by radical-left operatives. Are the dots finally connecting?

An interesting New York Post probe spotlights Cambodia’s coastal city of Sihanoukville—now dubbed the “cyber-scam capital of the world.” Trafficked workers are forced to run global crypto-investment and romance schemes that launder billions and threaten financial-system integrity.

As Western sanctions tightened, Russia turned to Kyrgyzstan as a backdoor for cross-border payments, exploiting regulatory blind spots and digital finance loopholes. This case exposes urgent vulnerabilities in Eurasian financial controls and calls for a coordinated compliance response.

A joint action day spearheaded by Spain’s Guardia Civil and Europol dismantled an international crypto-investment fraud network that siphoned €460 million from more than 5 000 victims across 30 countries. Five suspects were arrested, and a Hong Kong–based laundering architecture was seized, underscoring the regulatory blind spots that still plague virtual-asset markets.

On 20 June 2025, a Baku court sentenced seven journalists—six from corruption-focused Abzas Media and one from RFE/RL—to 7½-9 years on “currency-smuggling” and money-laundering charges. Rights groups say the verdict weaponises AML statutes to silence probes into President Ilham Aliyev’s financial networks just as Brussels deepens energy talks with Baku.

A veteran USAID contracting officer and three corporate chiefs have confessed to a decade-long bribery and securities-fraud scheme worth more than $550 million. The guilty pleas land days after Elon Musk’s blistering claim that the aid agency is “a criminal organization” run by radical-left operatives. Are the dots finally connecting?

An interesting New York Post probe spotlights Cambodia’s coastal city of Sihanoukville—now dubbed the “cyber-scam capital of the world.” Trafficked workers are forced to run global crypto-investment and romance schemes that launder billions and threaten financial-system integrity.

As Western sanctions tightened, Russia turned to Kyrgyzstan as a backdoor for cross-border payments, exploiting regulatory blind spots and digital finance loopholes. This case exposes urgent vulnerabilities in Eurasian financial controls and calls for a coordinated compliance response.

A joint action day spearheaded by Spain’s Guardia Civil and Europol dismantled an international crypto-investment fraud network that siphoned €460 million from more than 5 000 victims across 30 countries. Five suspects were arrested, and a Hong Kong–based laundering architecture was seized, underscoring the regulatory blind spots that still plague virtual-asset markets.

On 20 June 2025, a Baku court sentenced seven journalists—six from corruption-focused Abzas Media and one from RFE/RL—to 7½-9 years on “currency-smuggling” and money-laundering charges. Rights groups say the verdict weaponises AML statutes to silence probes into President Ilham Aliyev’s financial networks just as Brussels deepens energy talks with Baku.

A veteran USAID contracting officer and three corporate chiefs have confessed to a decade-long bribery and securities-fraud scheme worth more than $550 million. The guilty pleas land days after Elon Musk’s blistering claim that the aid agency is “a criminal organization” run by radical-left operatives. Are the dots finally connecting?

An interesting New York Post probe spotlights Cambodia’s coastal city of Sihanoukville—now dubbed the “cyber-scam capital of the world.” Trafficked workers are forced to run global crypto-investment and romance schemes that launder billions and threaten financial-system integrity.

As Western sanctions tightened, Russia turned to Kyrgyzstan as a backdoor for cross-border payments, exploiting regulatory blind spots and digital finance loopholes. This case exposes urgent vulnerabilities in Eurasian financial controls and calls for a coordinated compliance response.

A joint action day spearheaded by Spain’s Guardia Civil and Europol dismantled an international crypto-investment fraud network that siphoned €460 million from more than 5 000 victims across 30 countries. Five suspects were arrested, and a Hong Kong–based laundering architecture was seized, underscoring the regulatory blind spots that still plague virtual-asset markets.

On 20 June 2025, a Baku court sentenced seven journalists—six from corruption-focused Abzas Media and one from RFE/RL—to 7½-9 years on “currency-smuggling” and money-laundering charges. Rights groups say the verdict weaponises AML statutes to silence probes into President Ilham Aliyev’s financial networks just as Brussels deepens energy talks with Baku.

A veteran USAID contracting officer and three corporate chiefs have confessed to a decade-long bribery and securities-fraud scheme worth more than $550 million. The guilty pleas land days after Elon Musk’s blistering claim that the aid agency is “a criminal organization” run by radical-left operatives. Are the dots finally connecting?

An interesting New York Post probe spotlights Cambodia’s coastal city of Sihanoukville—now dubbed the “cyber-scam capital of the world.” Trafficked workers are forced to run global crypto-investment and romance schemes that launder billions and threaten financial-system integrity.

As Western sanctions tightened, Russia turned to Kyrgyzstan as a backdoor for cross-border payments, exploiting regulatory blind spots and digital finance loopholes. This case exposes urgent vulnerabilities in Eurasian financial controls and calls for a coordinated compliance response.

A joint action day spearheaded by Spain’s Guardia Civil and Europol dismantled an international crypto-investment fraud network that siphoned €460 million from more than 5 000 victims across 30 countries. Five suspects were arrested, and a Hong Kong–based laundering architecture was seized, underscoring the regulatory blind spots that still plague virtual-asset markets.

On 20 June 2025, a Baku court sentenced seven journalists—six from corruption-focused Abzas Media and one from RFE/RL—to 7½-9 years on “currency-smuggling” and money-laundering charges. Rights groups say the verdict weaponises AML statutes to silence probes into President Ilham Aliyev’s financial networks just as Brussels deepens energy talks with Baku.

A veteran USAID contracting officer and three corporate chiefs have confessed to a decade-long bribery and securities-fraud scheme worth more than $550 million. The guilty pleas land days after Elon Musk’s blistering claim that the aid agency is “a criminal organization” run by radical-left operatives. Are the dots finally connecting?

An interesting New York Post probe spotlights Cambodia’s coastal city of Sihanoukville—now dubbed the “cyber-scam capital of the world.” Trafficked workers are forced to run global crypto-investment and romance schemes that launder billions and threaten financial-system integrity.

As Western sanctions tightened, Russia turned to Kyrgyzstan as a backdoor for cross-border payments, exploiting regulatory blind spots and digital finance loopholes. This case exposes urgent vulnerabilities in Eurasian financial controls and calls for a coordinated compliance response.

A joint action day spearheaded by Spain’s Guardia Civil and Europol dismantled an international crypto-investment fraud network that siphoned €460 million from more than 5 000 victims across 30 countries. Five suspects were arrested, and a Hong Kong–based laundering architecture was seized, underscoring the regulatory blind spots that still plague virtual-asset markets.

On 20 June 2025, a Baku court sentenced seven journalists—six from corruption-focused Abzas Media and one from RFE/RL—to 7½-9 years on “currency-smuggling” and money-laundering charges. Rights groups say the verdict weaponises AML statutes to silence probes into President Ilham Aliyev’s financial networks just as Brussels deepens energy talks with Baku.

A veteran USAID contracting officer and three corporate chiefs have confessed to a decade-long bribery and securities-fraud scheme worth more than $550 million. The guilty pleas land days after Elon Musk’s blistering claim that the aid agency is “a criminal organization” run by radical-left operatives. Are the dots finally connecting?