China’s rosewood imports from Mali, one of its leading rosewood suppliers, have led to the devastation of Malian forests and served as a conduit for ivory smuggling, says a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).
The Swiss commodity trading and mining giant Glencore pleaded guilty on Tuesday to multiple counts of bribery and market manipulation and agreed to pay penalties of up to US$1.1 billion following U.S., U.K. and Brazilian corruption allegations.
The reputation of a high-end art dealer now lies in ashes as he was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison for his role in a fraud scheme that garnered him over US$86 million, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported.
Italian police busted a criminal group that made girls working as housekeepers seduce elderly men and siphon from them money that was then sent to Romania, the European Union’s law enforcement agency Europol said in a statement.
Poachers have since January killed 106 rhinos in the South African KwaZulu-Natal province, surpassing numbers for the whole of 2021, claims a poaching report partially released last week.
The Taliban have forced all female TV presenters in Afghanistan to cover their faces while on air, as part of their radical restrictions of female rights that have drawn criticism from the women and from human rights advocates.
The German financial services conglomerate Allianz agreed to pay US$6 billion to settle with the U.S. banking authority accusations of fraud within its U.S. asset management unit in connection with the $11 billion collapse of the conglomerate's Structured Alpha funds.
A Honduran court approved the extradition of an MS-13 leader to the United States, where he could face a life sentence if convicted on racketeering, murders and other violent crimes in the Washington metropolitan area.
When Kyrgyz police stormed the office of investigative journalism outlet Temirov LIVE on January 22 and arrested chief editor Bolot Temirov on drug charges, it sounded the alarm about press freedom in Kyrgyzstan.