The World Bank has blacklisted an anonymously-owned Scottish company for engaging in “fraudulent practices” to win deals under an emergency medical aid programme in Uzbekistan.  

A species of African elephant has become critically endangered species due to poaching and loss of habitat, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced last week, noting that in some parts of the continent anti-poaching measures have produced results.

Global fashion brands have been yet again pressed to avoid cotton from Turkmenistan after a new investigation emerged last week revealing how last year’s harvest was once more mired in forced labour, corruption and persecution of activists, Ecotextile News reported.

Another German politician joined the list of suspects in a corruption scandal involving the procurement of COVID-19 face masks that has rocked the country’s conservatives and prompted the Bundestag to introduce a lobby register.

Chinese-owned fishing companies cheated the Ghanaian government out of millions of dollars a year in fishing license revenues by using shell companies to fraudulently obtain lower-priced local licenses, according to a new study by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF).

Facebook has blocked a group of Chinese hackers who infected the devices of Uighur Muslims living outside the country with surveillance malware in order to spy on them.

A jury in New York found the ringleaders of a scheme that saw more than US$150 million made from marijuana sales flow through the U.S. financial system guilty of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, the Department of Justice announced in a statement on Wednesday.

Tensions remain high in the contested North African territory of Western Sahara ever since an incident at the end of last year threatened to break the 30-year ceasefire and disturb the established drug trade routes.

Gold-smugglers’ wigs, horse doping, sweet ecstasy, sentencing for the admiral of a fleet of narco-submarines, and the Girl Scout with her hand in the cookie jar ― welcome to your regular roundup of the weirdest events in corruption and organized crime, from us here at OCCRP’s Daily News team.

Methamphetamine is taking over illicit markets across East and Southern Africa, as established “Mexican Meth” from Nigeria competes with newer “Pakistani Meth” from Afghanistan for control of the regional drug trade, according to a report released Thursday.