As many as 128,000 forced laborers on commercial fishing vessels are victims of physical violence, debt bondage, wage withholding and, in some cases, are kept on board for years without setting foot on land, a group of non-governmental organizations revealed Wednesday in the most comprehensive analysis to date of the major companies responsible for abuses in the fishing world.

German and Dutch authorities have nabbed eight members of a criminal gang suspected of robbing a number of ATMs in Germany, costing millions of euros in damage.

Two former senior officials in the Maldives who were serving lengthy jail sentences for their part in a US$78 million corruption scandal that rocked the idyllic, archipelagic South Asian country are now free men.

The owner of six California skilled nursing facilities agreed to a US$45.6 million settlement Wednesday to resolve allegations that she and her companies had submitted false Medicare claims and paid kickbacks to physicians at the expense of her patients’ health and well-being.

European law enforcement arrested five individuals and investigated seven others, including two minors, suspected of involvement in far-right terrorism across Europe, as stated by authorities on Nov. 10.

Belgian and Greek authorities disrupted a network that was smuggling illegal migrants via Belgian airports to other European nations – often Norway – using false or stolen documents, according to European Union law enforcement agencies.

A Russian and Moldovan national pleaded guilty Tuesday to developing a malicious botnet hacking tool and unleashing it upon tens of thousands of internet users around the world, allowing him to sell access to his victims’ computers to other cybercriminals.

Fossils from the largest cultural property theft in Argentina's history have returned home.

The Civil Court in Skopje has ruled that North Macedonia’s Investigative Reporting Lab (IRL), an OCCRP partner, had no right to publish a documentary on the import and burning of low-quality dirty oils because it is a non-governmental organization and not a media outlet.

Caught with their goods around their ankles, three conspirators received sentences Monday for selling counterfeit designer underwear, in a scheme which netted them just under £400,000 (US$500,000), the City of London Police reported.