Activists fighting against the illegal trade in endangered species of both plants and animals have called on Chinese banks to prevent illegal wildlife traffickers from exploiting their networks to launder money. Otherwise those banks will risk greater scrutiny and pressure from foreign governments.
Spanish National Police said they dismantled the first illegal 3D-printing gun workshop in the country after investigators detected that a man had purchased parts of firearms and explosive substances online.
The Manhattan District Attorney announced on Monday that 33 cultural artifacts, worth some US$1.8 million, have been returned to Afghanistan after authorities found them among more than 2,500 looted antiquities held in the collection of notorious New York art dealer Subhash Kapoor.
Hundreds of non-governmental organizations in Venezuela rejected a new law that requires them to fully disclose information about both their beneficiaries and their donors on a government platform.
Nearly a hundred civil society organizations have urged the United Nations to form a special expert group that will “tackle transnational, large-scale and high-level forms of corruption” which is threatening the world’s peace and prosperity, Transparency International said Tuesday in a statement.
In over two-thirds of the world, the media is “constrained,” “seriously impeded” or “totally blocked,” and since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, journalists have been harassed, imprisoned and killed, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) concluded after reviewing press freedom in 180 countries.
A U.S. federal judge sentenced on Friday the former systems administrator of the notorious hacking group FIN7 to 10 years in prison for his role in organizing a criminal network that stole more than a billion dollars from customers whose credit card information was stolen from point-of-sale terminals, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release.
Authorities in Portugal said on Saturday that they have arrested two alleged members of a Montenegrin criminal organization who are sought in the Balkans for extortion and drug trafficking.
The Italian mafia is no longer just a violent gang running local rackets and smuggling drugs, but has mastered complex financial operations that can impact the country’s economy, experts said following a massive bust of money laundering operations run by several Italian mafia groups.
After his supporters warned that he could die soon, Russian authorities transferred sick Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to a prison hospital which some say is even worse than the cell he spent the past three months. Supporters plan mass protests over his treatment.