In what was described as the single largest seizure of cocaine in European history, German customs officials at the Hamburg port have confiscated over 16 metric tons of the drug hidden in three containers that arrived from Paraguay, according to a Wednesday announcement.

Celebrity cellphone hacking, international human hair-smugglers, counterfeit Shiraz and “lucky charm” necklaces used to monitor the aging victims of a lottery scam — our Daily News team rings in the weekend with some of the strangest criminal cases from the past few days.

The head of the second-highest court in Brazil has launched a probe into members of the task force that until recently was in charge of the investigation into Brazil’s biggest corruption affair in history - the so-called Car Wash Operation.

Anthropologists and indigenous rights defenders have called on Brazilian authorities to punish those who have been in recent weeks spreading anti-vaccination misinformation among Indigenous people, prompting parts of that population to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine in multiple regions across the country.

U.S. authorities arrested Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of infamous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Leora, upon her arrival at the Dulles International Airport near Washington D.C., the U.S. Department of Justice said.

A court in Lima on Monday sentenced Zoran Jakšić, a Serbian national and leading member of the international drug-trafficking organization, Group America, to 25 years in prison  — for the second time.

Experts tracking online crime urged prosecutors throughout the United States to address Facebook’s role in facilitating a multitude of illegal trades and marketplaces, including the illegal drug trade which the social media giant has allegedly facilitated amidst the ongoing opioid crisis. in the U.S.

After two French hospitals became the most recent targets of ransomware attacks, President Emmanuel Macron said his office plans to inject one billion euros (US$1.21 billion) into the country’s cyberdefense.

Vince Muscat, one of three men on trial for the 2017 assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, pled guilty on Tuesday to all charges against him in exchange for a 15 years prison sentence.

The European Union will for the first time use a new mechanism against human rights abusers to punish Russian officials believed to be responsible for the recent jailing of Kremlin's top critic Alexei Navalny. Critics said on Tuesday the move will not have much of an impact.