Further cracking down on independent media, President Nicolas Maduro’s government seized the offices of an emblematic Venezuelan newspaper after it allegedly caused moral injuries to a top government official.
Bahrain’s public prosecutor has referred 13 banks, including Iran’s Central Bank, to court for money laundering and other “unlawful banking practices” carried out between 2008 and 2012 with the goal to circumvent sanctions against Tehran, the country’s state-run news agency said on Tuesday.
Police in Kosovo arrested seven people suspected of drug trafficking and seized over 400 kilograms of cocaine, authorities confirmed on Tuesday.
A new U.S. State Department report “credibly alleged” that a number of current and former Central American politicians are corrupt or involved in narcotrafficking, many of them being tied to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.
On accusations of tax fraud, authorities in Minsk have blocked popular media outlet Tut.by, and have raided their offices, according to the Belarussian Association of Journalists (BAJ), who decried the move in a statement.
German police said they arrested the fifth and last suspect of the 2019 museum heist in Dresden, which saw members of a family-based criminal group loot royal jewelry said to be worth US$1.2 billion.
Police in 41 countries across Africa and the Middle East arrested 287 people and seized drugs worth some 100 million euros (more than US$122 million) in two operations coordinated by Interpol.
In a series of coordinated raids, law enforcement agencies in five EU countries arrested 22 suspected members of an organized crime group that allegedly deprived the Spanish budget of more than 26.5 million euro (US$32,35 million) by misusing the European Union’s VAT rules.
Four users of the encrypted communications platform EncroChat have been sentenced for drug trafficking in the U.K., following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation stemming from the decoding of messages on the once-secured phone system.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Sunday that he expects to be charged by anti-corruption prosecutors who are investigating whether he gave false testimony to a parliamentary commission at the time of the so-called “Ibiza affair,” a scandal that led to the collapse of his previous government in 2019.