Governments are failing to tackle international money laundering and tax fraud because police don’t have the tools to track down the owners of companies suspected of criminal activity, Transparency International (TI) said in its Thursday report about company ownership.
Police in 12 countries arrested 338 suspected members of the world’s largest child pornography distribution and consumption network that was run by a 23-year-old South Korean man and funded by cryptocurrency, according to a US Department of Justice press release from Wednesday.
Colleagues and human rights activists marked on Wednesday the second anniversary of the murder of Maltese investigative reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia, criticizing the island’s press freedom climate and obstructionism.
Netflix filed on Thursday morning an objection to a defamation lawsuit from the real-life subjects of its upcoming comedy The Laundromat, calling the case “an eleventh hour gag order against constitutionally protected speech” and insisting the film — which is inspired by the Panama Papers leak — is not the reason their professional reputations have been injured.
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan declared the National Alliance of Tajikistan, which united exiled Tajik political opponents, an extremist terrorist organization and banned its activities.
Brazilian investigators started looking into the role of the leader of the Social Liberal Party, or PSL, in alleged campaign finance fraud, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
Police in Canada’s York region announced on Wednesday that they have arrested 31 and raised 300 charges against suspected members of a human trafficking and organized crime ring that operated throughout the country.
Canada’s Conservative Party and the country’s largest oil and gas lobby group have been accused of possibly colluding to violate the country’s election laws, according to a complaint filed by a government watchdog.
Masked police raided on Tuesday the offices and the homes of employees of a non-government organisation led by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and froze the NGO’s bank accounts, saying they found proof that the organization was financed from abroad and laundered the money.