Europol, in close cooperation with the European Commission's Joint Research Center, launched a new platform to help police break encrypted messaging systems used by criminals, the European law enforcement agency announced in a statement Friday.
Authorities in Spain have arrested 23 alleged members of a Russian-speaking conspiracy to infiltrate public institutions and launder proceeds from criminal enterprises involving murder, extortion, and drug, arms and human trafficking in several countries around the world.
A new whistleblower rewards program looks set to provide monetary compensation to individuals who help the United States Treasury or Department of Justice in uncovering high-profile cases of money laundering.
The Council of Europe’s anti-graft group criticized Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) for making little progress in its fight against corruption, having implemented only a few of the group’s dozens of recommendations for increasing transparency, especially in relation to political funding.
A triple threat of U.S. sanctions, state mismanagement and the novel coronavirus is driving up demand for black-market medicines in Iran.
The world’s most lucrative environmental crime, the illegal timber industry, is valued at more than US$152 billion a year, Interpol reported after a decade of documenting the crime.
Australian government agency that tracks criminal abuse of the financial system has found the country’s package tour industry a high risk sector for money laundering, financing of terorrism and organized crime, the agency’s latest report revealed.
While ordinary people in Turkmenistan, one of the world’s most closed-off societies, are not expected to own luxurious cars, the local elite, mostly relatives of the country’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, are excused.
Mexico’s parliament has passed a new law imposing restrictions on foreign intelligence activities in a move the United States has warned will make citizens of both countries “less safe.”
A lawyer from the Independent Journalists Association of Serbia (NUNS) filed a criminal complaint with the Special Prosecutor’s Office for High-Tech Crime against a person who sent threats to the Editor-in-Chief of the Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS).