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Clout-Chasing, Serbian Narco-IT Moron Holds Key to Performative Europol Shade in ICIJ Story

30 Members of the Belivuk Clan in Serbia were arrested last February after their Sky ECC communications were crackedThey have been charged with 5 murders, but are suspected of as many as 20Serbian authories seized 44 Sky ECC phones from the gangThe gang’s messages were hacked at least 4 months prior to the timeline reported by Europol for when Sky was hackedSrdjan Lalic, the gang’s ‘IT wiz was in charge…

Buzzfeed Set to Report on 36 SARs Linked to Rogue Russian Crypto Exchange BTC-e, Hopefully Doesn’t Steele-Job it

Buzzfeed and Czech media outlet Investigace.cz are planning to report on 36 suspicious activity reports linked to a key payment processor for rogue Russian crypto-exchange BTC-e as early as this Sunday. This scoop marks the most geopolitically significant crypto thread in the financial-intelligence fiasco destined to be enshrined in history as ‘FinCENgate.’ According to Sergey Mayzus, a 45-year-old Russian national who is the majority owner of Mayzus Financial Services, which…

Two Multinational Banks Ensnared in Panama Papers-Style Leak of FinCEN Data, as U.S. Election Draws Near

In several Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence scoops last week, Aussie reporter Nathan Lynch revealed that the U.S. Treasury’s financial intelligence unit is bracing itself for the publication of a “Panama Papers-style” leak of sensitive data by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and its media partners. The TRRI story says that the ICIJ’s “consortium members are preparing to publish simultaneously on a pre-determined date. The participating media outlets have…