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  • Treasury Takes Action Against Violent Far-Left Terrorist Networks

    OFAC

    WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action to counter the growing threat posed by violent far-left terrorist groups. OFAC sanctioned Autistici Inventati, an Italy-based entity that supplies specialized digital architecture, tools, and services for Antifa cells and other violent far-left extremists, including a foreign terrorist organization; Palestine Action, a United Kingdom (UK)-based organization proscribed as a terrorist group by the UK government in July 2025; and the transnational group Masar Badil, which operates as a front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.

  • Investigation ‘Echo’: EPPO arrests five suspected ringleaders in probe into VAT fraud involving wireless earbuds

    European Public Prosecutor's Office

    (Luxembourg, 26 August 2026) – At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Munich (Germany), five individuals were arrested today in Czechia, suspected of being the organisers of a criminal VAT fraud scheme involving the sales of wireless earbuds. As part of this investigation, code-named ‘Echo’, assets were also seized in Czechia, Germany and Lithuania. It is understood that the suspects are the ringleaders of an organised crime group that has been operating a VAT fraud system involving AirPods since at least 2019, causing an estimated damage of €20 million between 2019 and 2023.

  • Wise Europe SA: Bafin sets fine

    BaFin

    The German financial regulator BaFin has imposed fines totaling €16,000 on Wise Europe SA. This is due to the company's failure to submit reports to BaFin's account comparison platform and its breaches of disclosure obligations. The Brussels-based institution had neglected for an extended period to report its account model, offered to consumers in Germany, to BaFin's account comparison platform.

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