Chinese authorities arrested more than 230 suspected bank scammers in Henan, China’s third-most populous province, police in Xuchang city said on Monday.

Police in Belgium detained several suspects and seized more than 57 million cigarettes and 48 tons of cut tobacco, with a total tax value of more than 32 million euro (US$31.94 million), during an international operation, Europol said on Tuesday.

The key accuser in a case against mining magnate Beny Steinmetz began testifying on Thursday in Geneva over his claim he moved bribe money for the Israeli businessman. Steinmetz is facing five years in prison for bribery related to his company’s 2008 acquisition of iron ore mining rights in the West African nation of Guinea.

Brazil’s indigenous protection agency announced “with regret” the death of the last remaining member of an uncontacted Amazon tribe that was decades ago wiped out by land grabbers. Experts say that despite years-long efforts to protect the indigenous people, the problem persists and got worse since President Jair Bolsonaro came to power.

At the request of Ankara, Albanian police arrested the founder of what was once one of Turkey’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges that turned out to be one of the largest scams in the country’s economic history, the Turkish Interior Ministry announced Tuesday.

Criminal activities of jihadists in Burkina Faso are not primarily motivated by profit but by their ambition to earn legitimacy in the areas they are trying to govern – according to a new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).

A Swiss prosecutor in a landmark bribery case accused billionaire mining investor Beny Steinmetz and two associates of being “caught with their hands in the jam jar” as an appeal hearing enters its third day in Geneva.

Montenegrin officials have announced on Monday their plan to establish a specialized Cyber Security Agency following a series of cyberattacks which targeted the NATO-member Balkan nation’s government digital infrastructure last week.

The leader of a Baltimore street gang with multiple murders under his belt pleaded guilty Friday to racketeering and drug conspiracy charges that could see him spend the next 40 years behind bars.

A court in Zagreb ordered on Monday five people who were arrested over the weekend to remain in detention on suspicion of defrauding Croatia’s main oil and gas company INA of more than a billion Croatian kunas (US$133 million) by reselling the company’s gas abroad for 10 times the purchase price and keeping the difference for themselves.