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Weekly Roundup: Tether Delayed Hamas Freeze, Sarkozy Faces 7 Years, and More

It took Tether Ltd., a virtual asset service provider in the British Virgin Islands, nearly two days to act on the FBI’s request this month to freeze $90,000 of cryptocurrency bound for Hamas, by which point the sum had dwindled below $3,000, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More French prosecutors disclosed their intention to seek a 7-year prison sentence and €300,000 fine for Nicolas Sarkozy after charging the former president with forming a "corruption pact" with late Libyan autocrat Muammar Gaddafi to finance his 2007 campaign, Le Monde reported. More French authorities raided the offices of the Directorate General of Public Finances...

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