A Texas federal court convicted a woman for running a criminal organization that charged immigrants tens of thousands to help them marry U.S. citizens and circumvent U.S. immigration procedures, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday. 

The EU received approval from finance ministers of its member states on Wednesday to set up an anti-money laundering watchdog with the authority to directly interfere with national jurisdictions if it finds that they have failed to comply.

Acting on request of the government of Brazil, U.S. authorities seized virtual currency worth an estimated US$24 million which Brazilian authorities claim are proceeds of a fraudulent scheme, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

Pakistan and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s officials on Wednesday signed in Islamabad an agreement that allows the Balkan country to send back home thousands of illegal Pakistani migrants that got stuck there on their way to western Europe.

A Russian national was sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in an online scheme that was set to steal more than US$100 million through identity theft, according to a statement released by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Authorities across Europe arrested nearly 400 suspected human traffickers in a series of joint actions that targeted child trafficking, Europol said on Wednesday. 

The Danish State Prosecutor for Serious Economic and International Crime (SØIK) has fined Danske Bank nine million Danish kroner (US$1.4 million) for misleading investors and this way violating the country’s Executive Order on Investor Protection, the SØIK said in a statement on Tuesday.

Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church who dared to try turn the centuries-old Vatican administration upside down and clean it up, stressed that “corruption is an ancient evil,” which did not outmanoeuvre the Church.

In a sweeping operation in two Italian cities, police arrested 74 members of the Nigerian mafia, including the alleged leader, 50-year-old Emmanuel “Boogye” Okenwe, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. 

Most journalists who took part in a survey conducted by the Foreign Policy Center said they were threatened or harassed while investigating financial crime or corruption, the U.K.-based international affairs think tank revealed on Monday.