The United Kingdom acted together with the United States, European Union, Japan and Canada to cut Russia’s Central Bank off from the international market in response to the Kremlin-led aggressive invasion against Ukraine.

The Kyrgyz presidency is expected to propose new and amended laws that will allow citizens to legalize their illegally obtained assets. Opponents claim that the proposed draft legalizes corruption.

In response to revelations that he at some point kept millions in a bank account in Switzerland, a Tajikistan politician and alleged mafia kingpin claimed that he was not fully conscious when his account was originally opened by an unidentified businessman.

The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) said that just in 2021 it took part in national and international operations that resulted in the seizure of 93 million cigarettes smuggled into the EU as well as 253 million confiscated outside of the Union.

The Sri Lankan Navy arrested on Wednesday one suspect and seized more than 400kg of cannabis concealed in a fishing trawler in the latest interception of vessels smuggling drugs from India to the island.

Paraguay’s president dismissed last week two ministers who were allegedly linked to organized crime. The move came after police dismantled a gang allegedly responsible for shipping about 21 tonnes of cocaine to Europe.

A joint German, Austrian and Bosnian police operation dismantled an organized crime group suspected of stealing luxurious cars in several German federal states, Europol reported on Wednesday.

The Committee to Protect Journalists urged Pakistan to immediately revoke a law that increases the prison term for defamation on social media from three to five years, arguing that it further criminalizes freedom of expression in the country.

A Swiss court dismissed on Thursday a lawsuit brought by the sister of a Ukrainian oligarch against the country’s immigration authorities who refused to naturalise her over doubts about the origin of her wealth.

Just a few days after reporters revealed that three Macedonians, among them a former deputy prime minister, may have had millions stashed in Switzerland, prosecutors in Skopje said they will look into the revelations about the accounts at Credit Suisse.