A federal court in California sentenced a Mexican lawyer who served as the Sinaloa cartel’s chief money launder to 15 years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in a statement.

For a few tense hours last week, Thai Senator Upakit Pachariyangkun was wanted for arrest in connection with an alleged drug trafficking and money laundering ring operating out of a casino in the Golden Triangle.

A Romanian businessman was indicted Monday for defrauding an EU-funded medical research center of more than three million euro (US$2.9 million) with the help of an accomplice who represented the company mandated with providing the center its equipment, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) announced Monday.

The U.S. Treasury imposed on Tuesday sanctions on three Burmese businessmen and their company for allegedly supplying Russian-produced arms to Myanmar's military, which seized power following last year’s coup.

U.K. and Spanish authorities said they have dismantled an Albanian organized crime group involved in smuggling people to the U.K. via Spain, and warned that organized immigration crime is evolving.

A blockchain bridge linked to Binance, the world’s biggest crypto exchange, was hit by a US$570 million hack last week that drained at least $100 million, the company said.

Brazilian police raided 20 locations throughout the country and seized cash and luxury items from a suspected leader of a transnational cryptocurrency fraud ring that is believed to have stolen nearly US$800 million from investors.

The U.K. branch of the global anti-graft watchdog Transparency International warned on Monday that more than one in ten of all Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) ever registered in Britain bear the “hallmarks of shell companies used for serious financial crimes.”

A Russian businessman whose affairs were the subject of a recent OCCRP investigation was shot and badly injured in a parking lot in a small town in Quebec, Canada, on Friday afternoon.

Spanish police arrested 16 people Thursday connected to the theft of 58 tonnes of copper cable on behalf of a larger criminal organization.