A Jordanian businessman related to the royal family was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 years of hard labor and fined 191 million Jordanian dinars (US$269 million) for corruption and abuse of office, the country’s Integrity and Anti-Corruption Commission said in a statement.

For the first time ever, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will join a Eurojust joint investigation team, JIT, which was formed to probe whether genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes have been commited in Ukraine.

A U.K. court convicted a 33-year old barber from northwest London for paying thousands of pounds to lorry drivers to smuggle illegal migrants—including himself—into the country.

A federal jury indicted a 76-year-old man from Las Vegas for partnering with foreign telemarketers to steal financial information from American consumers, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said Friday.

In another act of defiance against the Kremlin, the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) published Tuesday a list of over 6,000 bribe takers and warmongers who it says enabled Russian President Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.

Authorities in Germany, Italy and Hungary have searched on Wednesday the premises of  Japanese car producer Suzuki and its suppliers, looking for evidence of the use of emission devices that provided fake readings and made it look as if the cars met European Union regulations.

In a massive operation that spanned four Brazilian states, authorities cracked down on a sophisticated money laundering network of the criminal gang Os Manos, arresting nearly 60 suspects.

Authorities across Europe took down last week one of the continent’s most active drug trafficking networks in a joint operation that culminated in the arrest of 39 individuals linked to the importation of over 57 tonnes of cocaine since last year.

Organized criminals in the western Balkans and particularly Albania are increasingly using the United Arab Emirates as a safe haven to hide both themselves and their money from law enforcement, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) found in a new analysis.

Illegal mining of Yanomami indigenous land in Brazil has soared in recent years, exposing the tribe to malaria, food shortages, sexual abuse and homicides, a recently published report revealed.