A politician from Mexico’s green party (PVE) was removed from office after his alleged links to a Romanian gang that skimmed ATMs in several tourist destinations across the Riviera Maya were exposed. 

Like soccer players all over the world, the forwards, midfielders, and defenders of the Gomoa Fetteh Youngsters club spend their days practicing drilling, passing and attacking the rival’s net while keeping the ball away from their own.

Authorities in Colorado have charged 64 suspected members of a drug trafficking group caught with more than 77,000 synthetic opioid pills, just days after a court indicted 19 alleged traffickers following the largest meth seizure ever in the Northern District of California.

An increasingly large, lucrative and often illegal trade in seahorses, sea cucumbers and dried fish bladders is threatening the collapse of marine wildlife reserves across dozens of African countries, according to a report published last week.

Anti-corruption police searched the home of Austrian Finance Minister, Gernot Blümel, as part of a bribery investigation involving the country’s gambling giant Novomatic and several high-ranking political figures.

Myanmar’s military has used rubber bullets, tear gas, water cannons and recently live ammunition against anti-coup protesters who flooded the streets defying a ban on large gatherings. One woman was left with severe brain trauma, according to reports.

Cybercriminals behind the hack on CD Projekt Red, a Polish video-game designer responsible for hit titles such as The Witcher series and the recently-released CyberPunk 2077, have held a multi-million dollar auction for the data they stole. 

Authorities in The Netherlands have dismantled an alleged criminal syndicate suspected of a complex multi-year, multi-million euro ‘carousel’ VAT-fraud scheme involving the online sale of electronic devices.

The U.K. said on Friday that the new Belarusian People’s Assembly which President Alexander Lukashenko plans to fill with supposedly impartial delegates and put them in charge of constitutional reforms is “neither inclusive nor representative.”

An Italian construction magnate has been expropriated of assets worth over 212 million euro (US$256 million) on Thursday for his suspected ties to two infamous ‘Ndrangheta families involved in illegal bid rigging for construction contracts.