The United Kingdom’s financial watchdog announced Wednesday that it has fined the U.K. subsidiary of the Swiss investment advising and wealth management firm Julius Baer International Limited (JBI) £18 million (US$22.05 million) for failing to conduct its business with integrity.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) said Tuesday that it has uncovered the largest ever value-added tax (VAT) fraud scheme in the EU, worth an estimated €2.2 billion (US$2.3 billion) in stolen tax revenue.
Bolivian-based importers are feeding illegal mining operations in Peru with mercury, according to a recent report by OjoPúblico - a non-profit investigative journalism center and a partner organization of the OCCRP.
The Prosecutor General’s office in Russia Tuesday formally labeled the Russian branch of the Lithuania-based Riddle Analytical Center as an “undesirable” organization, saying it was “posing a threat to the security” of the Russian Federation.
Last year, at least 4,473 women were killed in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a United Nations regional commission report released on Friday, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
It’s going to be a green Christmas for the Spanish Civil Guard this year, as they enter the holiday season fresh off a 44-tonne marijuana bust made deep in the Pyrenees mountain range.
The Gulf of Guinea is safer than it used to be, with a steady decline in piracy incidents and armed robbery at sea reported in the past year.
The U.K. Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) warned solicitors not to become engaged in abusive litigation aimed at silencing critics, known as strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs).
Law enforcement agencies across Europe, in cooperation with their colleagues in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), said Monday that they had dismantled a ‘super cartel’, which controlled around one third of the cocaine trade in Europe.
The Iraqi government said Sunday that it recovered some of the US$2.5 billion embezzled from its tax authority last month, in what amounted to one of the largest thefts in the country’s history.