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President Trump publicly accused Venezuela of having “stolen” U.S. oil, land and other assets and ordered a “total and complete” blockade of sanctioned oil tankers; U.S. authorities have seized at lea...
No U.S. senator appears among the persons formally identified or sanctioned in the Department of the Treasury’s public Venezuela-related actions, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reporti...
The landscape of “top carding darkweb sites” is fluid: several long‑running marketplaces and forums repeatedly appear in industry reporting — Altenen and various carding shops/markets like Brian’s Clu...
U.S. oil companies have repeatedly filed claims and won international arbitration awards against Venezuela for past expropriations and lost investments, but those legal victories have not translated i...
Available sources do not record any foreign governments that have imposed personal sanctions on Donald Trump; reporting in the current dataset instead documents U.S. domestic measures by the Biden and...
If your question is which dark‑web vendor currently ranks “best” for buying stolen credit cards, available reporting identifies several longstanding marketplaces—Brian’s Club, UniCC (now retired), Jok...
U.S. authorities have repeatedly accused Nicolás Maduro and senior Venezuelan officials of running or enabling large-scale drug trafficking—charging Maduro with “narco‑terrorism,” placing bounties up ...
Several countries have at times imposed sanctions, tariffs or trade restrictions against the United States—often as retaliatory measures—and the practice dates back centuries (economic sanctions again...
Multiple international tribunals have found that Venezuela’s 2007 nationalizations of foreign oil investments violated treaty or contractual obligations, and claimants have pursued a mix of arbitral a...
Foreign state actors most visibly tied to Venezuela’s oil sector now are China and Russia, while limited Western involvement — notably Chevron — has fluctuated with U.S. licensing and sanctions . U.S....
Vendors on carding and darknet markets convert crypto to fiat through a mix of commercial crypto‑fiat rails (crypto cards, payment gateways, exchanges) and illicit intermediaries: OTC brokers, mixers,...
Analysts and several outlets report a statistical anomaly dubbed the “Russian Tail” — a flattened-but-extended tail in vote-distribution curves that analysts previously tied to manipulated elections i...
U.S. prosecutors and federal investigators have pursued multiple Venezuela-related money-laundering, corruption and narco-terrorism prosecutions that have touched high-level Venezuelan officials and i...
International litigation over Venezuelan asset seizures has focused mainly on U.S. actions since 2019 and the recent December 2025 seizure of the tanker M/T Skipper; Washington says the Skipper was se...
U.S. authorities and Treasury investigations show cartels use a mix of cash smuggling, front companies, casinos, real-estate purchases, prepaid cards and crypto conversions to move and “clean” drug pr...
International maritime law does not on its own create a general power to forfeit a seized tanker; rather, nation-states rely on domestic statutes, admiralty procedure and special arrangements to conve...
The Trump administration has used executive orders to impose sanctions that include financial restrictions and visa-related measures against foreign persons and institutions such as the International ...
U.S. sanctions imposed beginning in 2019 and stepped-up maritime enforcement, including the 2025 seizure of the tanker Skipper, forced Venezuela to adapt by shifting sales channels, deepening reliance...
U.S. sanctions have been the primary economic lever used to pressure Venezuela for years, targeting the state, its oil company PDVSA, and individual officials and thereby constraining Caracas’s access...
Venezuela has faced a string of international arbitration awards and settlements for expropriating foreign-owned oil, mining and industrial assets—most prominently ConocoPhillips’ roughly $8.5–8.7 bil...