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.

U.S. authorities arrested and charged a wealthy Syrian national living in Florida for bribing Venezuelan officials to obtain procurement contracts from state-owned or state-controlled food and energy companies and laundering the bribes, a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) statement said.

A controversial prosecutor is stepping in to fill the post left vacant by Guatemala’s top anti-corruption investigator Juan Francisco Sandoval, who was forced out of office just two weeks ago. 

Experts restored on Thursday the website that handles the services of Italy’s Lazio region after cybercriminals forced the administration to shut it down on Sunday, delaying the inoculation process in Italy's second most populous region.