Mexican authorities said that they have arrested one of the Gulf Cartel leaders who is suspected of being involved in last year’s murder of 15 members of a rival gang.

The United States announced on Thursday further sanctions against several Russian oligarchs as well as their family members in order to hinder their ability to direct their wealth and resources towards financing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

For decades, law enforcement has been neglecting the illegal trade and sale of protected wildlife online, leaving it up to civil society to fight the problem, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) said in a recent report.

France confiscated on Thursday the superyacht of former Russian politician and current CEO of Russia’s state-owned oil enterprise Rosneft Igor Sechin, following a wave of EU sanctions against Russian officials and oligarchs.

The day Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian state-owned VTB Bank, which got slapped by the U.S. with sanctions the same day, transferred its stake in Cyprus’ RCB Bank to the two remaining shareholders, both of which are companies registered in Cyprus.

The EU added a cellist and one of Vladimir Putin’s best friends to its list of officials and military figures who have been banned from traveling to the Union and whose assets there have been frozen.

Credit Suisse has asked its investors and business partners to destroy documents about the yachts and private jets of its wealthiest clients in an attempt to cover up the fact that the bank had granted loans to oligarchs that were later sanctioned, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

Two U.S. government agencies made the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) pay a total of US$55 million in fines for repeatedly violating anti-money laundering (AML) regulations and the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). The bank must also improve compliance at its branch in New York City.

Seven activist groups requested that Switzerland’s financial watchdog, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), launch an investigation into the relationship between three Swiss banks and Lebanon’s central bank governor, according to The National.

The Spanish Civil Guard arrested five people suspected of stealing about six million euro (US$6.67 million) from a Spanish company dedicated to storing the crypto assets of its clients. The theft was made possible when the computer of one of the company’s employees got infected with a virus after he downloaded a movie from a pirate website.