How Scammers Launder Money and Get Away With It

How Scammers Launder Money and Get Away With It

Every few weeks, fireworks light up the night sky in Cambodia, set off by scammers to salute their biggest swindles. By the time the shells pop and crackle, somebody’s life savings are probably gone. Maybe the victim fell for an online romance scam or bought into a fake cryptocurrency exchange. …

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Cambodia’s Stolen Statues Are Coming Home to an Overflowing Museum

Cambodia’s Stolen Statues Are Coming Home to an Overflowing Museum

The four cavernous wings of Cambodia’s national museum are so packed with objects that visitors need to watch their elbows while strolling among the roughly 1,400 on display. The century-old building in central Phnom Penh is running out of room partly because foreign collectors and institutions have returned about 300 …

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Armed Bandits in Brazil Pursue New Loot: Ozempic

Armed Bandits in Brazil Pursue New Loot: Ozempic

Around 10:30 p.m. on a Friday in late January, David Fernando, a pharmacist, was working behind a counter at a drugstore in São Paulo when a man walked up to him and flashed a gun. “He asked for money from the register and medications from the refrigerator,” Mr. Fernando said. …

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