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The Axioma, a 1,600-ton superyacht seized from blacklisted Russian national Dmitrievich Pumpyansky in March pursuant to Western sanctions against Russia, went to auction in Gibraltar with an estimated value of $42 million to $75 million that will go towards repaying loans issued by JPMorgan Chase, NPR reported. More Italian con artists managed to sell citizenship to a fictitious nation, the "Antarctic Theocratic Sovereign State of St. George," to more than 700 victims before laundering nearly €400,000 from the scheme through Maltese financial institutions, the Shift reported. More Malaysia's former prime minister Najib Razak began serving a 12-year prison term after losing...