Facebook’s parent company Meta has removed Black Cube and six other cyber surveillance firms from its platforms because they produce software for spying on people, the company said in a statement last week.
A U.S. District Court judge last week dismissed the bankruptcy plan of Purdue Pharma that would grant its owners immunity from thousands of lawsuits related to the company’s role in the opioid epidemic.
A global investigation showed that the illicit fishing trade fuels transnational organized crime activities such as the trafficking of humans, drugs, and explosives, Interpol reported.
U.S. President Joe Biden issued two executive orders last week, one establishing a national council to address the threat of transnational organized crime and a second declaring a national emergency and giving sweeping powers to the U.S. Treasury department to sanction foreign individuals engaging in the global trade of illegal narcotics and other drugs.
A number of U.S. lawmakers called on the administration of President Joe Biden to apply the Global Magnitsky Act and sanction four mercenary hacking companies, including Israel’s scandal-plagued NSO Group, for helping authoritarian regimes abuse human rights.
Hong Kong Customs reported on Wednesday the conclusion of an eight-day operation against the sale of illicitly sold karaoke players and pirated music.
Two Panamanian men alleged to have laundered more than US$28 million in bribes related to the Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht’s corruption scandal, have pleaded guilty, the first earlier this month and the second this week, the U.S Department of Justice revealed in a statement on Tuesday.
The South African High Court renewed on Wednesday former President Jacob Zuma’s prison sentence, annulling a previous decision that granted him medical parole. Zuma’s charitable foundation said that it considers the new ruling a death sentence.
A U.K.-based firm that exported petroleum and chemical products from Turkmen state oil and gas plants was dissolved less than a month after reporters uncovered it had at one point been controlled by a nephew of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.