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INSIGHT: Suspicions increase Epstein was Russian spy gathering kompromat on West’s elite; tried to land bank job for UK’s Peter Mandelson

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Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. THIS IMAGE WAS PROCESSED BY REUTERS TO ENHANCE QUALITY, AN UNPROCESSED VERSION HAS BEEN PROVIDED SEPARATELY.

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BREAKING: US set to cut Swiss bank MBaer from financial system over $100 million to Iran, Russia claims

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By AML Intelligence Correspondents POLAND is investigating whether Jeffrey Epstein was a Russian spy gathering kompromat on the most influential government and business figures in the West. Photographs taken by Epstein and associate Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as the personal secrets he learnt, suggested a harvesting of kompromat of a type gathered by Moscow’s FSB…

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LATEST: US AFC chief remains in situ; likely to be made ambassador within days; Treasury sources slam ‘fake news’ reports

BREAKING: US set to cut Swiss bank MBaer from financial system over $100 million to Iran, Russia claims

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LATEST: EU officials used suspicious transactions to dismantle cocaine trafficking network

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  • Treasury Sanctions Nicaraguan Officials Enabling the Murillo-Ortega Dictatorship’s Repression

    OFAC

    WASHINGTON—Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned five Nicaraguan government officials who lead the principal financial, communications, and military agencies that enable Nicaragua’s Murillo-Ortega dictatorship to repress its people. The individuals sanctioned include the Director and Deputy Director of Nicaragua’s Financial Analysis Unit, the Minister of Labor, the Deputy Director General of the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Postal Services, and the head of the Nicaraguan Army’s Directorate of Military Intelligence and Counterintelligence.

  • European Commission refers Peter Mandelson to European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) for allegedly leaking sensitive information to Jeffrey Epstein

    European Commission

    European Commission refers Peter Mandelson to European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) for allegedly leaking sensitive information to Jeffrey Epstein

  • Treasury Proposes Rule to Sever Swiss Bank MBaer’s Access to U.S. Financial System

    FinCEN

    Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) proposed a rule that, if finalized, would sever MBaer Merchant Bank AG (MBaer’s) access to the U.S. financial system as a result of its financial support to illicit actors linked to Russia and Iran. If finalized, the proposed rule would prohibit covered U.S. financial institutions from opening or maintaining a correspondent account for, or on behalf of, MBaer.

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