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U.S. Treasury Sanctions Crypto Launderers Behind North Korea’s Fake Workers
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The U.S. Treasury sanctioned ten people and one entity, including two Russian crypto middlemen, for laundering money from North Korean fake IT worker schemes that fund its weapons programs.
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