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Weekly Roundup: Manafort Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison, North Korea Using Blockchain to Evade Sanctions, and More

President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for tax fraud, hiding assets abroad and defrauding two banks out of $4 million, Deadline reported. More North Korea is hacking into cryptocurrency exchanges and using blockchain technology to circumvent financial sanctions and avoid detection, according to an unreleased U.N. report cited by Nikkei Asian Review. More Shell companies linked to Sergei Roldugin, a Russian cellist and close friend of President Vladimir Putin, received almost $70 million from 2008 to 2010 as part of an alleged money-laundering scheme dubbed the Troika Laundromat, an...

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