When Spanish authorities raided the home of a suspected drug trafficker in the Valencian town of Guadasser, they were expecting to find drugs and weapons. Instead they found a trove of archaeological artifacts stretching back to the 12th century which were suspected to looted.
The U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has established a new unit with a mandate to investigate corrupt elites, sanction evaders, and enablers of money laundering.
Brazilian Federal Police said they dismantled a criminal group that bribed airport employees to ship cocaine to Europe on commercial flights from the largest airport in Latin America, São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, to Lisbon, Frankfurt or Amsterdam.
Madagascar authorities have suspended four illegal gold mining operations that were run by Chinese nationals on the Kamoro river in the northwest of the country – according to a statement by the Ministry of Mines and Strategic Resources released this week.
U.S. authorities seized approximately half a million dollars worth of cryptocurrency from North Korean hackers that targeted healthcare providers, according to a Department of Justice announcement on Tuesday.
Online games that incentivize players by rewarding them with virtual assets are wide open to money laundering, scams and other forms of financial crime, according to a former CIA analyst.
Products derived from pangolins, whose populations around the world have been brought to the brink of extinction by relentless poaching, are widely advertised on open web platforms – says a new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime (GI-TOC).
After months of delay, Ukraine has appointed a leader for its Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutors Office, (SAPO) fulfilling a key recommendation for EU and IMF aid, President Volodimir Zelensky announced over the weekend.
The U.S. State Department added 23 Nicaraguan judges and prosecutors with close ties to President Daniel Ortega on the list of corrupt actors in Central America, a leaked draft of the “Engel List” says.
Four people, including the former head of the Cyprus Parliament, were charged with corruption over their role in the country’s cash for passport scheme, according to a statement by the Attorney General.