British authorities arrested 24 people suspected to be involved in the trade of fraudulent passports for U.K.-based organized crime groups, either as manufacturers, abettors, a middleman, or as the group’s clientele.

In a series of anti-smuggling operations this past month, customs officials in the Chinese special administrative region of Hong Kong have seized tens of millions of dollars of contraband, surpassing local records.

Since the English Premier League announced their approval of a Saudi Arabian bid to buy Newcastle United Football Club last week, human rights groups and civil society actors have expressed concern over what they see as the kingdom’s attempt to ‘sport wash’ its negative international image and have urged for tighter ownership rules.

The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four Mexican nationals last week, accusing them of trafficking large quantities of fentanyl and other dangerous substances into the United States on behalf of the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), one of Mexico’s most dangerous criminal organizations.

A U.S. court sentenced a 25-year-old Chinese national to more than three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to laundering money for a wildlife trafficking syndicate which specialized in smuggling turtles, the Department of Justice revealed in a statement last week.

Since The Pandora Papers were unveiled less than 10 days ago, their findings have become the subject of European Commission media briefings, state leaders’ press conferences and government statements, while the world watches on to see what authorities will actually do.

The owner of a swanky Manhattan art gallery, who sold ancient artefacts to major auction houses like Christies and Sotheby's, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to knowingly have dealt in stolen goods, the anti-antiquities trafficking NGO Antiquities Coalition announced.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday in favor of a group of Bosnians who sued Azerbaijan more than a decade ago for cross-border human trafficking and forced labor.

Europol announced on Wednesday that, in cooperation with German authorities, Romanian police arrested 21 suspected members of a transnational network that smuggled Afghan migrants to Germany and France.

Ukrainian authorities have arrested two suspected ransomware operators who are believed to have broken into the systems of several large industrial groups in Europe and North America, encrypted their files and demanded up to US$81 million to give them back, Europol reported on Monday.