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An internal report authored by the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, also known as FinCEN, and obtained by The Wall Street Journal indicates that U.S.-blacklisted terrorist group Hamas has conducted more than 300 transactions in cryptocurrency over the past three years at a combined value of $165 million. More A U.S. official cited the report's findings in calling for federal lawmakers to pass legislation to strengthen oversight of cryptocurrency, Coindesk reported. More Papaya, a Latvian owned, Maltese electronic money institution allegedly at the center of an international money-laundering scheme, is suspected of being secretly controlled by a Russian...