Japan froze the assets of Garantex, a Moscow crypto exchange that processed at least $96 billion, in Russia sanctions that took effect on October 2. Any exchange or payment firm that touches Garantex now carries Japanese legal risk on top of its US and EU exposure.
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Russia's Finance Ministry paid some staff in digital rubles on Oct. 1, after 2025 budget trials worth nearly 16 million rubles. Payroll transfers are free on the central bank's platform through 2026, so the state carries the cost of moving its wages over.
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Swiss voters rejected writing a strict form of neutrality into the constitution by a projected 71%, an SRG and GFS Bern exit poll showed. The result lets the government keep matching EU sanctions on Russia without waiting for a UN Security Council resolution.
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Federal authorities arrested Oxygen Forensics' CEO and CTO, alleging they hid Russian ownership to win over $2 million in Secret Service work. DOJ does not allege malicious code, so agencies running the tool are left weighing who controls it and the same software's sale to Russia's FSB.
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Leaked internal files from the Promsvyazbank-backed payments group describe roughly 100 front companies in four jurisdictions opening accounts at banks still on the network, with counterfeit invoices produced whenever compliance teams asked questions.
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The 36th round since March 2022 pulls named CARR hackers, an alleged bulletproof hosting operator and a GRU unit commander into New Zealand law, and into NZ screening files.
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