Spanish police intercepted on Sunday a cargo vessel carrying 20 tons of hashish and arrested its 11-member Syrian crew, according to a statement released on Tuesday.

Police in India arrested on Monday a suspended police officer and his brother who are believed to have brutally stabbed to death a journalist with a screwdriver after he discovered the cop’s involvement in a gambling and tobacco smuggling ring.

The United States levied sanctions on Monday against 23 Belarusian individuals and 21 entities close to President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime, accusing it of repression and widespread corruption.

Homes in Beverly Hills purchased with embezzled money by Kuwaiti officials. A skyscraper in the heart of Manhattan controlled by the Iranian government. Real estate investments from a boutique firm that received millions of dollars from Colombian drug cartels.

Spanish police on the Canary Islands arrested four suspected members of Montenegro’s notorious Škaljari clan, known as a brutal gang that smuggles cocaine from Latin America to Europe.

Spanish police arrested 21 suspected members of a group that smuggled drugs and trafficked illegal migrants from Morocco and Algeria and used its intricate knowledge of an interconnected series of caves and grottoes along Spain’s southeast coast to hide them.

Saudi Arabia’s Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) on Monday announced that 207 individuals, including government employees, have been arrested for their involvement in bribery, abuse of office and power, and forgery.

Police in Italy arrested on Saturday one of the country’s most wanted organized crime figures — 70-year-old Maria Licciardi, also known as “Madrina” or “The Godmother” of the Naples-based Camorra.

A Nigerien court postponed on Monday the appeal trial of journalist Moussa Aksar, who was in May convicted in a defamation case following his FinCEN Files investigation into military procurement fraud.

In an unprecedented move, Mexican officials have sued Smith & Wesson, Beretta, Century Arms, Colt, Glock, Ruger, Barrett and Boston-based gun wholesaler Interstate Arms for negligence in an attempt to halt the ‘iron river’ of guns that flow from the United States every year and end up in the hands of criminals and cartels.