Mexican authorities have over the weekend warned citizens of unauthorized COVID-19 vaccines that are being illegally advertised and sold online. Such vaccines are of dubious origin and can be harmful, they said.
Balkan arms smugglers are supplying Sweden’s criminal groups with assault rifles, Serbian pistols and Yugoslav-era hand grenades, fuelling the country’s rising gang violence, according to a new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
The European Union’s agency for law enforcement cooperation between member states has determined a ‘working relationship’ with a new, independent body set up to investigate and prosecute sophisticated cross-border financial crime.
Israeli mining magnate Beny Steinmetz was sentenced to five years in jail on Friday for bribery and ordered to pay a 50 million Swiss francs (US$56 million) fine.
Theodore Gyi, a cameraman who shot more than 120 pornographic videos for the websites GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys, has plead guilty to conspiring to commit sex trafficking, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a statement Thursday.
U.K. law enforcement arrested 4,760 people for suspected online child sexual abuse, including 320 high-risk sex offenders, during the first Covid-19 lockdown between April and September 2020, according to the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) on Friday.
The Mexican National Guard seized almost 84,000 fentanyl pills and nine kilos of crystal meth in what began as a routine traffic stop in Ahome, Sinaloa, according to an official statement issued on Wednesday.
The Swiss financial regulator is pursuing a case against high-ranking employees at a private bank for violating anti-money laundering measures in respect of Venezuelan state oil funds.
Some 48 hours after he was arrested in Moscow, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny fired back at the Kremlin, publishing Tuesday a shocking video titled “Putin Palace” (Дворец для Путина), where he accused the Russian president of outrageous corruption.
Interpol warned that investment scammers may exploit vulnerable users on dating apps, the international law enforcement group said in a statement Tuesday.