In Bishkek today, Kyrgyz investigative journalist Bolot Temirov, who faced up to 20 years in prison on a series of charges, was acquitted on most of them.

German police raided on Tuesday the luxury yacht of a Russian businessman suspected of laundering hundreds of millions via offshore companies, the Frankfurt Public Prosecutor's Office said. German media reported that the megayacht belongs to sanctioned Uzbek-born oligarch Alisher Usmanov.

The police in South Africa’s Gauteng arrested 1,450 suspects in weekend operations aimed at improving safety in the province – said a press release by the South African Police Service.

Malaysian authorities have brought home 15 victims of a suspected cybercrime scheme, who had been lured into Cambodia by lucrative yet phony job offers, the country’s foreign ministry said.

A major cross-border investigation coordinated by Interpol has resulted in the arrests of 1,333 suspects and seizure of chemicals and drugs worth US$717 million worldwide.

Taking a page out of the financial crime enforcements handbook, researchers at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime have now started using a new tool to fight wildlife trafficking.

The United States designated a state prosecutor in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Monday, describing her as a “brazenly corrupt” and having “links to criminal organizations.”

The U.K. government introduced a new bill to block kleptocrats and criminals’ dirty money from flowing freely through its economy by cracking down on fraud and money laundering.

Turkish police said they detained 12 people in Istanbul, including the suspected killer of Montenegro’s Škaljari clan boss, Jovan Vukotić.

Boeing agreed to pay US$200 million in settlement fees Thursday for misleading investors as to the cause of two deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019 that led to the loss of all 346 souls on board.