Authorities in 61 countries collaborated last week to dismantle multiple online scam networks, freezing 6,745 bank accounts and seizing assets worth US$257 million, including $2 million in cryptocurrency.
A private jet at the center of a mysterious fake gold smuggling case in Zambia belongs to Ibrahim al-Organi, an Egyptian tycoon and leader of a large tribe who was once jailed during Bedouin protests, but now leads a tribal alliance that helps keep the Sinai peninsula under government control.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) filed an indictment Thursday against a Bulgarian entrepreneur who allegedly falsified documents for a loan to fund construction of a dairy processing facility.
Police in South Africa arrested two illegal miners on Thursday, adding them to the half a million people detained over the past year in an operation designed to decrease crime in one of the world’s most crime-ridden countries.
Law enforcement agencies around the world coordinated in a joint operation against human trafficking that led to hundreds of arrests and more than 1,000 victims identified, Interpol reported.
British transparency campaigners and opposition politicians have called for the next government to tighten political party financing laws following an OCCRP investigation that raised questions about the origins of a 2020 donation to the ruling Conservative Party.
The EU implemented Monday its 14th round of sanctions against Russia for its ongoing aggression against Ukraine, this time targeting the country’s seaborne trade and liquified natural gas (LNG) industries, which continue to fill the Kremlin’s war chest.
Romania did not extend the exploitation license of a gold-mining company whose once significant shareholder was Beny Steinmetz, an Israeli billionaire and mining magnate sentenced for organized crime and corruption.
Human rights organizations welcomed the decision of Iran’s supreme court to overturn the death sentence of popular rapper Toomaj Salehi and order his retrial, saying even a short jail sentence would be too much for what he has done.
An international anti-money laundering body that took the United Arab Emirates off its “gray list” will review findings from a recent investigation by OCCRP and media partners, which revealed that convicted criminals, fugitives, and sanctioned individuals own property in Dubai.