A retired San Diego vice squad officer has been indicted for running a prostitution ring out of a handful of massage parlors in California and Arizona, and laundering the profits.

French financial prosecutors are investigating former Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš on suspicion of money laundering in connection to purchases of luxury properties using a network of offshore shell firms, Le Monde reported.

American law enforcement agencies have rescued more than 200 human trafficking victims across the country, including 84 children who were trafficked for sex, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The office of Mexico’s attorney general said it has launched an investigation into former President Enrique Peña Nieto, weeks after a local anti-money laundering agency filed complaints against him for money laundering and illicit enrichment.

Interpol has uncovered that even on a small scale, organized crime generates hundreds of millions of dollars from pollution-related offences annually, with such devastating consequences to local communities and the environment that it has described it as a global phenomenon.

U.S. crypto firm Nomad announced on Twitter that it is offering hackers up to 10% bounty to retrieve user funds after losing US$190 million in a massive hacking attack.

Nearly 200 people have been killed in about three weeks after gangs started a war over territory near the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince, a recent report by the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) said.

Nigerian police arrested 17 people over their alleged involvement in a cyber fraud ring, continuing its crackdown on cybercrime that has been blooming since the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many to work online.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday that he did not know his political opponent had been wiretapped by the country’s intelligence service, adding that the spying was legal but wrong.

Guinea-Bissau continues to serve as a key cocaine transit point between Latin America and Europe, despite government pledges to clamp down on smuggling – says a new report by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) published in July.