After a shootout with a gang suspected of having tried to sell “unregistered lung ventilator devices” to a hospital near Moscow, Russian authorities said they detained seven people and seized nearly 2,000 counterfait ventilators.
An international organised crime watchdog has warned that the increasing hostility of immigration policies worldwide amid the coronavirus pandemic is endangering migrants who may instead turn to smugglers for help moving across borders.
A temporary restraining order was issued by a federal court in Utah to stop a man from peddling silver as a potential cure for COVID-19.
Fraudsters have found a way to use the coronavirus pandemic for blackmail, with one phishing scam threatening to ‘infect every member’ of victims’ families with the disease in what experts say is a new take on an old sextortion scheme.
Colombian prosecutors said on Tuesday that former General Mauricio Santoyo was put in jail while they investigate him for money laundering and illicit financial and criminal activity that connect him to a notorious far-right paramilitary and narco-trafficking group.
The fact that the pangolin is the world’s most trafficked mammal may have played a role in the emergence of the novel coronavirus, according to a report from the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime.
Ever since Nikolai Tarankov was assassinated by his godson four years ago, Estonia’s criminal underworld has not had a leader.
A new law adopted by the Armenian parliament would allow prosecutors investigating unexplained wealth to petition courts in the country to take hold of any property worth more than US$100,000 and acquired after 1991, the year of the country’s foundation.
A general with Russia’s intelligence service could be the highest-ranking official identified as having been involved in the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014 that killed 298 people, the investigative outlet Bellingcat revealed in its latest investigation published on Tuesday in cooperation with Russia’s The Insider.
Authorities in Ukraine have arrested a gang accused of selling and trafficking infant children to buyers in the People’s Republic of China.