Authorities arrested three out of 13 suspects of Tuesday’s armed attack on a gold convoy in southern Zimbabwe, in which 11.6 kilograms of gold worth US$650,000 were stolen, the Zimbabwe Republic Police said in a press statement.

A federal court in Brooklyn sentenced a mobster to 40 years behind bars for killing his long-time friend he had fallen out with, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday. Both men were linked to New York’s infamous Gambino Family.

Criminals have laundered at least US$4 billion-worth of illicit crypto proceeds using cross-chain technologies since 2020, new research by blockchain analysis firm Elliptic reveals.

Belarus has closed down a medical clinic after journalists revealed the facility’s owners had high-level connections to the autocratic regime of President Aleksander Lukashenko, and had likely received preferential treatment from the government.

In what has been described as the single largest seizure of rhino horn in Singapore’s history, authorities at Changi Airport seized 34 kilograms, or around 20 rhinoceros horns, smuggled in two bags that were on their way to Laos from South Africa, Singapore’s National Parks Board said in a statement, Wednesday.

The U.K. government announced Monday its intention to raise civil penalties by 1,000-fold for the country’s water companies who pollute the environment, from the current £250,000 (US$286,733) fine up to a proposed £250 million ($286.7 million) penalty per violation.

As Israelis prepared for the holy day of Yom Kippur — when believers pray to know “who will live and who will die, who will die after a long life and who before his time?” — the alleged leader of the Shlomo crime family was gunned down at a gas station just outside of Tel Aviv on Monday, local media reported.

Turkish police arrested more than 200 suspects in a massive operation against organized crime and smuggling groups that spanned over 20 of the country’s 80 provinces, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

A court in Pakistan quashed last week the conviction of Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of  former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, after she was sentenced to seven years in prison for taking part in the purchase of luxury flats in London with money she couldn’t explain how she earned.

An American rancher was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years in prison for defrauding two meat processing companies of over US$244 million by raising 265,000 bovines for them that never in fact existed.