Spanish Police Brings Down Gang Trafficking Drugs on Speed Boats
Spanish police arrested 64 people and confiscated tons of drugs during an operation that brought down a gang that used speed boats to move drugs from Morocco to Spain, Europol said.
Spanish police arrested 64 people and confiscated tons of drugs during an operation that brought down a gang that used speed boats to move drugs from Morocco to Spain, Europol said.
Police in Indonesia arrested three suspected members of an international crime syndicate that tricked an Italian company into paying 3.67 million euro (US$4.33 million) for non-existent medical equipment, Interpol said Tuesday.
Russia’s foremost opposition figure has posted a jocular message online boasting of his gathering recovery after he was poisoned with a state-developed nerve agent last month.
Carmaker Daimler AG and subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA LLC agreed on Monday to pay US$1.5 billion to the United States to resolve accusations that they were manipulating engines to cheat on emission tests.
The part of the speech where U.S. Secretary’s Mike Pompeo expressed concern with Russia’s money laundering in Cyprus was missing in local media reports from a press conference he gave in the capital of Nicosia on Saturday because the translator skipped it.
U.S. prosecutors have charged a Russian national with wire fraud, accusing him of aiding and abetting political and electoral interference operations conducted by a Russian disinformation group that keeps targeting U.S. citizens.
A highly respected U.S. anti-narcotics agent has pled guilty to working with the same Colombian drug cartel he was formerly commissioned to investigate.
The Swiss and Uzbek governments established terms for the return of US$131 million in assets confiscated from the daughter of the former Uzbek President Islam Karimov. Gulnara Karimova had stashed some of her ill-gotten money in Switzerland, relying on the prominent financial secrecy jurisdiction to hide a portion of her offshore fortune.
Spanish police arrested three Croatian nationals when they intercepted their sailboat in the Spanish waters near La Palma carrying a total of 980 packages or nearly a ton of high-quality cocaine, Guardia Civil said in a statement on Saturday.
Prosecutors in the United States have indicted three people on charges of bank fraud and money laundering related to an alleged conspiracy to violate sanctions against North Korea.