Holyrood, the Scottish Parliament, has voted against asking national authorities to pursue an Unexplained Wealth Order against Donald Trump, which would have required the former president of the United States to account for how he purchased two golf courses in Aberdeen and Turnberry.
Bulgarian authorities detained nine suspected members of a gang that advertised the quality of its cash and documents forging skills by showing off a fake Bulgarian passport in the name of Hollywood star Sylvester Stalone “with most of the security features perfectly falsified,”Europol said on Monday.
The recent seizure of 8.8 metric tons of elephant ivory, pangolin scales and rare wildlife bones at a Nigerian port revived previous claims made by conservationists that the country is playing a key role in illegal wildlife trafficking to Asia.
An investigation of over 100 whistleblower reports revealed widespread allegations of theft of COVID-19 unemployment benefits and corruption in South Africa, according to a report released on Monday by Corruption Watch.
The European Union is concerned over escalating trends of violence in organized crime groups, according to a new Europol report that cited examples of makeshift torture chambers in the Netherlands, gang wars in Sweden and reported cases of deadly violence in Denmark, Belgium, Italy and Spain.
Russian authorities detained more than 5,400 people who protested on Sunday in some 150 cities across the country, demanding freedom for top Kremlin critic, Alexei Navalny, an independent monitoring group reported on Monday.
The International Biathlon Union has accused its former president, Anders Besseberg, of covering up cheating and blatantly favoring Russian interests after receiving bribes in the form of prostitutes and hunting trips, according to an independent report commissioned by the Union.
A former chairman of state-owned China Huarong Asset Management, Lai Xiaomin has been executed after being found guilty of seeking bribery payments of more than 1.79 billion yuan (US$278 million) over a ten-year period.
El Salvador extradited on Friday the former chief of its football federation to the United States where he is facing racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges related to the massive FIFA corruption scandal.
Trying to prevent modern slavery, a Tunisian anti-trafficking body has last week released information cards intending to educate the increased number of human trafficking victims coming from or passing through the country about their rights.