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"The Zurich-based company's brokerage arm, Crypto Broker AG, won a securities house license from Swiss regulator Finma, it said in a statement on Monday."
"Zurich-based Crypto Finance Group can now offer its trading solutions to customers of private banks. A partnership with one of the major banking IT providers is the key to the new service."
"Crypto Finance's representative office in Singapore opens this month and is led by Alisher Tashpulatov, the company's head of Asia, according to a media release on Wednesday."
"The crime unit, an interface between banks and regulators on money laundering, has been beset with problems for years as Switzerland grapples with some of the biggest graft scandals worldwide..."
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"...the troubled conglomerate disclosed that its creditors had applied for its bankruptcy and that nearly $10 billion had been embezzled by shareholders of its three units."
China's embattled HNA Group unit shares slump as creditors seek bankruptcy reut.rs/3oAPEpF
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"...went on a global shopping spree starting in 2014. Financed by state banks, bond sales & their own rising revenues, they bought hotels, insurance companies, sports teams & other assets."
"The company attracted attention in Washington in 2017 when it agreed to buy a hedge fund from Anthony Scaramucci, who was due to take a WH post as then-President Trumpโs liaison to Wall Street."
Significant chance of TOC involvement relating to this "coup" situation IMO. Sam Gor syndicate reportedly has significant presence there.
Related story from last week:
Man accused of running one of the world's biggest drug cartels arrested in Amsterdam us.cnn.com/2021/01/23/asiโฆ
"As well as pioneering industrial-scale meth production in super-labs in Myanmar, Tseโs syndicate built its customer base...by offering to replace any drugs that were seized by LE at no extra cost."
Explainer: The arrest of Asia's 'most-wanted' drug boss reut.rs/3qM78Rl
Consider...40 Wall Street. The website calls the skyscraper a โ72-story landmarked address.โ Itโs actually a 63-story building, according to a document filed with the SEC. The site says it has 1.3 million square feet of office space. It really has 1.1 million."
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"At Trump's building in Las Vegas, it takes some strange math to get to 64 floors. Above the ground level, there's an office, five floors of parking, a pool, and thenโsuddenlyโthe 16th level, according to an architectural drawing."
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"It comes after Russia's detained opposition figure Alexei Navalny called for action to be taken against Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and Alisher Usmanov, who has ties with Everton."
"The Russian billionaire who is one of Facebook's biggest investors believes that the social networking company's potential is 'not fully understood' โ even by the company itself."
Wait for Facebook Surge: Russiaโs Richest Man fw.to/Y2f44sU
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"Russian oligarch Arkady Rotenberg says he is the owner of an opulent Black Sea mansion, not President Vladimir Putin, as the leaders' critics had alleged."
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"One of Vladimir Putin's closest friends may have used Barclays Bank in London to launder money and dodge sanctions, leaked documents suggest."
FinCEN Files: Sanctioned Putin associate โlaundered millionsโ through Barclays bbc.com/news/uk-542255โฆ