A Peruvian judge has ordered 14 lawyers to be detained as an investigation is conducted involving alleged favoritism in the awarding of public-works contracts with a value of at least US$250m to Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, according to Al Jazeera.
An Ohio drug trafficker has pleaded guilty to laundering more than US$19 million of narcotics profit on the dark web over the course of two years.
A subsidiary of a major Polish oil company that operates in Lithuania received hundreds of millions of dollars in discounts for freight transportation along with other special treatment from Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis’s government, according to an investigative report by 15min.lt.
Moscow authorities launched a criminal investigation on Thursday, after 29 school children with food poisoning symptoms have been hospitalized, the Moscow Interregional Investigative Directorate said in a statement.
Croatian police rescued nine illegal migrants from a screwed-down wooden crate Tuesday after stopping a van with Polish license plates near the country’s eastern borders with Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, police said in a statement.
A former doctor has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for a string of frauds, money laundering, and illegal prescription-writing, according to a Justice Department release last week.
Nine Americans - including six children - are dead after a highway ambush by a cartel in the Mexican state of Sonora Monday evening.
As the US tried through sanctions to limit Venezuela’s involvement in the global financial system as a way to oust Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro, Russia shipped loads of cash to the South American country.
A Moscow court ordered on Thursday two catering companies to compensate the families of schoolchildren who suffered food poisoning with the equivalent of US$4,700, days after it ordered an NGO to pay nearly 300 times that much to one of the companies for reporting about the incident.
Activists are outraged with Friday’s murder of an indigenous “Amazon Guardian” allegedly by illegal loggers he fought against.