A French court sentenced on Wednesday the uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to four years in jail for organized money laundering, aggravated tax fraud and embezzlement of Syrian public funds between 1996 and 2016.
The Uzbekistani Justice Ministry has announced the transfer of US$10 million to the state budget following the sale of luxurious real estate in Paris that once belonged to the disgraced daughter of the country’s late president.
Authorities arrested 31 suspected members and associates of Boston’s NOB gang and charged them with a variety of criminal offenses, including murder, sex and drug trafficking and shootings, according to a statement released on Tuesday by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.
A British non-profit filed a lawsuit against the UK government for awarding a 108 million pounds (US$136 million) contract for purchasing COVID-19 protective equipment to a small pest-control company from Sussex that has 16 employees - a move they see as dubious.
Four former executives of the Spanish branch of ICBC, China’s largest state-owned bank, pleaded guilty on Monday to laundering tens of millions of euros in illicit funds, mostly originating from suspected Chinese organized crime groups.
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined the London branch of Frankfurt-based Commerzbank 37.8 million British pounds (US$47.3 million) for it’s failure to implement adequate anti-money laundering (AML) controls between October 2012 and September 2017.
Authorities in Romania have brought drug trafficking charges against a man who once posed as US actor Robert de Niro in order to take out fraudulent bank loans.
Some of Italy's leading mafia experts fear that the COVID-19 pandemic has only served to strengthen the mafia’s foothold across Italy, according to a report released by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).
After nine hours of testimony on Monday, a Maltese court announced that it would conduct a formal investigation into the role that former police chief Lawrence Cutajar may have played in the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, the Times of Malta reported.
Thick and dark grey smoke was pouring out of the chimney of the local furniture factory ‘Javorak’ in the western Montenegrin town of Nikšić on Monday, as the country’s anti-narcotics authorities burned about five tons of drugs in the factory’s furnace.