Experts welcomed the amendment that aims to close the loopholes of the 2021 Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Whistleblower Act by expanding the financial incentives to qualified tipsters and including tips on sanctions violations.

One is a sanctioned businessman. Another is a convict. Two more are celebrities with ties to political power.

Six members of the Kazakh Parliament, including four from the ruling party, have asked the government how it plans to return billions given to one of the biggest banks in the country controlled by a foundation linked to former long-time President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

South Africa, the world’s largest chrome producer, loses around 10% of its annual production to illegal mining which has served to empower mining mafias, according to a bulletin of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime (GI-TOC) published last week.

The police in southeast Nigeria rescued 35 girls aged 14 to 17 who were exploited for prostitution and ‘baby harvesting’ in a raid last week – according to a press statement by Tochukwu Ikenga, the local police spokesman.

In what will mark a significant reform for U.S. anti-money laundering laws, the House Armed Services Committee approved the inclusion of the Establishing New Authorities for Businesses Laundering and Enabling Risks to Security (ENABLERS) Act into the annual defense budget for 2023.

Hungary arrested a former Brazilian military police officer who allegedly turned into one of the biggest global drug traffickers whose network is suspected to have shipped 45 tons of cocaine from Brazilian ports to Europe.

A subsidiary of the Swiss commodities giant Glencore admitted it paid millions of dollars in bribes to African officials to get access to oil and make unlawful profit, according to the United Kingdom’s anti-graft authority.

Argentinian authorities reported Tuesday the execution of a major drug seizure in which multiple houses and sailboats were raided and found to have been trafficking over a tonne and a half of cocaine bound for Europe.

A Honduran court has sentenced the former head of the hydroelectric dam company Desarrollos Energéticos (Desa) to 22 years and six months in prison for taking part in the assassination of environmentalist Berta Cáceres who campaigned against the construction of a dam.