A U.S. private virtual currency exchange agreed on Tuesday to pay more than US$50 million to settle U.S. accusations of having breached several sanction programs, violating anti-money laundering regulations (AML) and suspicious activity reporting requirements.

Mexican officials have sued five gun dealers from Arizona for allegedly providing weapons to criminal groups and cartels in Mexico, the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs reported.

Most parents would say that a gun is not an appropriate prize at the bottom of their child’s cereal box, something Dominican police agreed with when they seized 20 handguns found inside of frosted flakes containers as part of a larger operation that resulted in record drug and firearm seizures.

As any other matter involving American taxpayer money, the U.S. State Department said it is taking very seriously reports about corruption being responsible for only a fraction of relief funds reaching the over 30 million Pakistanis now displaced by floods.

Two brothers went on trial on Friday in Malta for allegedly killing investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who died in a car bomb attack five years ago.

The Taliban ban on digital currency has brought Afghanistan’s cryptocurrency market, which experienced a massive expansion after the insurgent group took over the country in August last year, to a standstill – says a new study by Chainanalysis.

The fight against foreign bribery is weakening among the world’s largest exporters, reaching a record low since Transparency International began tracking it in 2009. Only two countries are actively challenging it.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Bangladesh government to stop the widespread crackdown on and the fake charges against the opposition as the country is preparing for general elections in 2023.

The Cypriot government decided on Wednesday to start the process of stripping its citizenship from 10 individuals who obtained it under the country’s discontinued ‘citizenship by investment program’, according to a press statement by the Government Spokesperson Niovis Parisinou.

A British businessman was arrested on U.S. charges of conspiring to evade sanctions imposed on a Russian oligarch, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said on Tuesday.