A court in the United Kingdom found three men belonging to a known organized crime group from East London guilty of trying to conceal cannabis and cocaine in sweet potato boxes in two shipments from Jamaica, the U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) said.

Australia sanctioned 39 Russians over their alleged links to corruption uncovered by Ukrainian-born Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky as well as those who appear to have been involved in his mistreatment and death in a Moscow prison in 2009.

A Vietnamese-cryptocurrency platform that hosts a popular online game announced last week that it is investigating a security breach in its network that resulted in more than US$600 million in crypto being stolen.

The European Union’s executive body called on member states to immediately revoke the so-called ‘golden passports' and ‘golden residence permits’ they may have granted to Russians and Belorussians who were recently sanctioned over the invasion of Ukraine.

A British court sentenced a high-ranking member of an organized crime group to 21 years in prison for orchestrating the importation of multi-million pound drug shipments, the UK’s National Crime Agency announced in a statement.

In a joint operation, Latvian and Lithuanian authorities dismantled two call centres in Riga and a third in Vilnius last week, and arrested 108 suspects of organized crime, according to a Europol press release.

Ecuador's former Comptroller General found himself in a Miami court on Tuesday over his role in a bribery and money laundering scheme associated with Odebrecht S.A., the Brazilian conglomerate whose massive bribery scandal has rocked Latin America.

Reporting analysis or news which has any impact on Tunisia’s economy could result in a jail sentence under a new law Tunisia has just passed. The bill will have a significant effect on freedom of expression in the African country that kicked off the Arab spring just over a decade ago, Amnesty International said in a statement.

In the hunt for Russian-owned superyachts worldwide, British officials have identified and detained one belonging to a Russian national valued at 38 million pounds (US$50 million).

Russian oil and chemical tankers are disabling their on-board automated identification systems (AIS), thereby keeping authorities in the dark as to their whereabouts while at sea. The move is seen as an attempt by Russia to circumvent international sanctions brought about by the country’s invasion of Ukraine last month.