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The Czech government announced on March 27 that it had uncovered a Moscow-financed propaganda network that sought to influence European politics and turn public opinion against aiding Ukraine. Prague named Viktor Medvedchuk, a Kremlin-linked former Ukrainian oligarch, and Artem Marchevskyi, a media manager who used to work at one of Medvedchuk's TV channels, as the people behind the operation. According to the Czech outlet Denik N and Germany's Spiegel, hundreds of thousands of euros...

The practice was named after Latin term, and allows multiple people to claim ownership of a stock and claim refunds on dividend tax that was only paid once.

The cum-ex scam, as explained by an old Washington Post report, exploited a tax code loophole, allowing multiple individuals to claim ownership of a stock and receive refunds on a dividend tax paid only once.