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Weekly Roundup: Deepfake Clone Dupes British Company, Investment Manager Pleads Guilty, and More

Fraudsters used deepfake technology to mimic a senior manager of U.K. engineering firm Arup during a video conference and thereby dupe employees into wiring $25 million out of the company, the Financial Times reported. More Argentinian investment manager Fernando Vuteff, 53, son-in-law of the former mayor of Caracas, faces up to six years in prison after pleading guilty in Miami to laundering hundreds of millions of dollars through EU and U.S. banks on behalf of corrupt Venezuelan businessmen and politicians, the Miami Herald reported. More A dozen members of Syrian President Bashar Assad's inner circle managed to plow $50 million...

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