The United States’ $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus bill that President Joe Biden signed last week, has become the first coronavirus package to address cybersecurity as part of a national recovery plan.

Three non-governmental organizations announced on Monday that they have helped a Syrian man sue in Moscow members of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner for war crimes, accusing them of cruelly killing his brother in Syria.

Rahn+Bodmer Co., the oldest private bank in Zurich, has agreed to pay US$22 million to settle criminal charges in the United States that it helped U.S. clients hide millions of dollars they kept on offshore accounts, enabling them this way to evade paying taxes, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement.

Leading Europe as the nation with the most captive tigers and representing one of the continent’s top illegal tiger trafficking hotspots, France is home to a booming tiger trade, according to an article published Friday.

The daughter of “El Mencho,” the alleged leader of Mexico’s notorious Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), has pleaded guilty to violating U.S. sanctions against companies with links to the ultraviolent narco-trafficking syndicate.

More than 30 United Nations member states came together on Friday to condemn the trajectory of human rights in Egypt and call for an end to the use of terror against those perceived as threats to the state for simply exercising their right to freedom of expression.

Transnational organised crime has grown exponentially since the early 1990s and is now a key factor exacerbating many of the world’s major problems, including climate change, mass migration, economic inequality and political instability, according to a report published Thursday.

As part of a larger crackdown on money laundering and criminal financing, Mexico’s financial authorities announced this week they will put together a guide for the prevention of human trafficking and other crimes - the fourth in a string of such guides released this month.

Meth and cocaine lollipops, pot-smuggling biker gangs, painted rocks passed off as copper, counterfeit children’s toys, and the grandmother helping take down the Italian mafia ― OCCRP’s Daily News team bringing you this week’s oddest events in corruption and organized crime.

Belgian and Dutch authorities searched on Tuesday more than 200 premises and arrested nearly 50 people after accessing hundreds of millions of messages that were exchanged between suspected criminals through an encrypted messaging network allegedly called Sky ECC.