At least 27 people, including a police officer, died in a shootout in northern Rio de Janeiro after security forces entered a favela known to be the headquarters of one of Brazil’s largest criminal groups.
The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched last week a public consultation on a drafted set of regulations for a future central database on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) in the Europen Union.
Qatari authorities arrested the country’s finance minister whom prosecutors accused of misusing public funds and abusing his office and its power, the state-run news agency reported on Thursday without offering any further details, other than that investigations are ongoing.
Interpol introduced on Thursday a new app that can help law enforcement and the general public fight art and antiquities trafficking, the international police agency said in a statement.
A federal court in Brazil acquitted former president Michel Temer (2016-2018) on Wednesday after finding there wasn’t enough evidence to support the prosecution's claim that he had led a criminal organization which facilitated bribery.
A French journalist who went missing beginning of April appeared on Wednesday in a video that surfaced on social media in which he said that he was kidnapped by the Al Qaeda affiliated Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM) in Gao, Mali.
A global treaty tackling cybercrime threatens to put freedom of expression and other human rights at stake in many countries as governments could abuse the pact to silence dissidents and undermine privacy, Human Rights Watch said.
Italian and German law enforcement agencies arrested 31 suspected members of the ‘Ndrangheta mafia in a joint operation assisted by Eurojust and Europol, the European police agency said in a statement on Wednesday.
With pressure mounting on international institutions to cut all ties to Myanmar’s junta, the World Bank Group has refused to say if it is considering moving out of the office it rents in a complex on military-owned land.
Three anti-corruption organizations have filed legal complaints in France against several people including Lebanon’s central bank governor, Riad Salame, whom they have accused of corruption and money laundering.