Spanish authorities arrested on Thursday 19 people suspected of being part of a transnational crime ring involved in drug trafficking, human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of women.
A U.K. court sent a London-based crime group behind bars for a total of 35 years for trying to illegally bring 69 Albanian migrants into the country, and plotting to smuggle 50 people in every week, the National Crime Agency reported on Tuesday.
A Swedish court cleared on Wednesday a former business area manager at engineering giant Bombardier of corruption charges, arguing that prosecutors could not prove that Thomas Bimer offered a multimillion dollar bribe to secure a railway deal in Azerbaijan.
Colombian police reported on Monday the arrest of three members of an organized crime group engaged in the capture, death, and sale of critically endangered turtles.
Spanish police reported on Friday that they detained a fugitive connected to murder and drug trafficking, thereby ending the 19-year manhunt for mafiosi’s rearrest.
The U.S. authority in charge of fighting financial crimes like money laundering and terrorist financing said on Monday that it’s seeing more and more suspicious financial transactions associated with illegal wildlife trafficking.
Switzerland extradited a Russian national to the United States where he will face charges for hacking into the computer networks of large U.S. companies to obtain data that allowed him and his co-conspirators to trade stocks based on information not available to others.
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.