@ericgarland I’m trying to get my head around this. Missouri Democrats Chair Russ Carnahan was working for Primero Justicia, one of the four main parties of the Unitary Platform opposition alliance of Leopoldo López, that backed Guaidó’s “interim government”
Sim Hyon Sop, a North Korean national, based in UAE, is charged in 2 schemes:
-Conspiring with Wu HuiHui, Cheng Hung + to launder stolen cryptocurrency
Conspiring with North Korean IT workers to launder proceeds of illegal IT work at U.S. crypto companies justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/nor…
Sop along with Wu HuiHui, a Chinese national and Cheng Hung, Hong Kong British National (Overseas) are charged with laundering the proceeds from a December 2017 $75 million hack that ended up in wallet 1G3Qj4Y4trA8S64zHFsaD5GtiSwX19qwFv
CFTC filed a complaint against crypto exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao, and former CCO, Samuel Lim for allegedly violating trading rules
The filing is potentially just the first salvo in a regulatory crackdown on the world’s largest crypto exchange. cnbc.com/2023/03/27/bin…
Zhao and Lim allegedly “actively cultivated lucrative and commercially important ‘VIP’ customers, including institutional customers
They took steps to purposefully obscure where the exchange’s subsidiaries were located. This was part of a larger strategy to “keep countries clean”
US has announced sanctions against BUSINESSMAN ADONEV AND HIS NETWORK
Sergei Nikolaevich Adonev is a businessman in Russia who acts as a financier to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Rostec State Corporation head Sergei Chemezov. state.gov/actions-to-cou…
Sergei Adonev (also spelt Adoniev) made the news in 2019 when Bulgaria revoked his Bulgarian citizenship over a 20-year-old fraud conviction in the United States.
New Epstein reporting: Several of the financial firms are also being asked for records concerning “The Butterfly Trust,” an Epstein-related entity that opened accounts at Deutsche Bank in 2014 and which listed several of Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators among its beneficiaries.
Epstein allegedly used the Butterfly Trust and various other accounts to “send over 120 wires totaling $2.65 million to beneficiaries … including some transfers to alleged co-conspirators or women with Eastern European surnames,”
Jun 4, 2020 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
Rivera, a Miami Republican, received $15 million from his 2017 contract with PDVSA. At the end of that year, Rivera diverted about $4 million from his consulting firm to Venezuelan TV mogul Raúl Gorrín, a fugitive under indictment on bribery and money-laundering charges in Miami.
David Rivera made wire payments from his business, Interamerican Consulting, to Raúl Gorrín through a Miami company, Interglobal Yacht Management LLC, in which Gorrín had a financial interest before the Venezuelan tycoon was indicted in 2018.
