Money laundering via cryptocurrencies increased in 2021 by 30% and is estimated to account for US$8.6 billion, claims a report recently published by blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis.

One year after the military coup, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom applied sanctions against several senior Myanmar officials for undermining democracy and violating human rights.

Brazilian police arrested eight suspected members of a drug trafficking group that operated in the port of Paranaguá and specialized in concealing drugs in containerized shipments. Officials said they dismantled the criminal organization that relied on corrupt port workers and others within the supply chain.

A Russian lawmaker from Chechnya on Tuesday vowed to decapitate the family of a human rights lawyer, whose mother has already been abducted by masked men from her home in Russia two weeks ago.

An international foundation dedicated to the fight against illicit wildlife trade said on Tuesday that it hopes the case of the dismantled organized criminal group that was smuggling ivory from Africa to China could provide a blueprint for authorities to take on other major trafficking groups around the world.

Police in Bosnia and Herzegovina said they have arrested on Tuesday 19 suspected members of an organized crime group that trafficked drugs and weapons. Officers searched locations in several cities and seized more than 400 kilograms of marijuana as well as some narcotic production equipment.

High demand for West Africa’s rosewood timber, specifically from Chinese markets, has spawned corruption across the region’s forestry sectors, siphoned millions out of its economies, and accelerated the effects of deforestation and forest degradation.

The overwhelming majority of countries which had the highest rates of criminality in 2021 are those in the midst of armed conflict, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime found in a new study.

Heavily armed police detained seven Somali journalists, accused them of being terrorists and threatened with death for their critical reporting on state officials, the Premium Times reported on Saturday.

The U.K. authorities have seized from an Azerbaijani lawmaker 5.6 million pounds (US$7.56 million) derived from a sophisticated international money laundering scheme that was revealed by the OCCRP and its partners in 2017, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said in a statement on Monday.