In a coordinated cross-border effort by Italian, Romanian, Bulgarian, and Swiss authorities, police arrested an Italian businessman suspected of laundering money for the Italian ‘Ndrangheta mafia and seized assets worth over four million euros (US$4.2 million).
For Latin American cartels looking to peddle their cocaine into European markets, Turkey is poised to be the next major transit point, according to a new analysis by Insight Crime.
Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for helping Jeffrey Epstein traffic and sexually abuse countless young girls, in a conspiracy that dates back to at least 1994.
Rappler, an OCCRP-partner and independent media organization in the Philippines that has been renowned for its scrutiny of the government of Rodrigo Duterte, has been ordered to shut down.
Of all Latin American countries, Venezuela and Bolivia are the worst when it comes to tackling corruption and Guatemala, Mexico and Brazil have again found themselves towards the bottom of the list, a study says.
Africa’s tramadol epidemic, particularly prevalent in West and Central Africa, keeps gaining momentum – according to the UN World Drug Report published this week.
G7 nations announced this week a ban on all future Russian gold imports, in order to apply pressure to President Vladimir Putin’s regime as his invasion of Ukraine now enters its fifth month.
On request of EU prosecutors, Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) in Palermo placed 12 suspects of corruption and fraud under house arrest on Tuesday and rdered another 10 to report to the judicial police in connection with the misuse of EU funds.
A Swiss court ordered Credit Suisse to pay the equivalent of US$22 million for failing to prevent a Bulgarian crime ring from laundering money related to cocaine trafficking.
While investigating money laundering linked to the funding of Russian occupied territories, Ukrainian authorities said they discovered a trove of ancient Scythian weapons believed to have been looted from museums in occupied Crimea, Ukraine’s general prosecutor revealed in a statement on Friday.