After spending years gambling with money from debtors whose cases he oversaw, a former judicial officer in Louisiana was sentenced Thursday to three years in federal prison, according to a release from the US Department of Justice.
A group of young Azerbaijani men spent two million euros (US$2.2 million) on a 19-day-vacation on Mykonos, one of the most expensive islands in Greece. The big spenders are children of Azeris linked to the country’s gas companies, according to Greece's SKAI TV channel.
US senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, asked Braidy Industries CEO Craig Bouchard to explain how come a controversial Russian company is investing in the aluminum rolling mill Braidy plans to build in Kentucky, although it was under federal sanctions until early this year.
The family of imprisoned drug kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo'' Guzman is planning on building Mexico’s first indigenous university and hopes President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrado will lay the cornerstone, according to a lawyer claiming to represent him.
Few hours after he was dragged out of his room and beaten in the so-called ''torture cell,'' a Bangladesh student who criticized the state's recent water-sharing agreement with India on his Facebook page was found dead, Human Rights Watch reported Thursday.
US authorities arrested on Wednesday two close associates of President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani and indicted them with funneling foreign money to US politicians and trying to influence the country’s relations with Ukraine.
Authorities in 16 European countries have arrested hundreds of suspects and seized drugs worth more than US$90 million in a Europol-coordinated crackdown.
The US has sanctioned three brothers of the infamous Gupta family and one of their associates, accusing them of bribery and overpayments on government contracts to fund political contributions and influence the actions of the South African government.
Colombia’s Supreme Court says it will continue investigating a former president over allegations he tried to bribe a paramilitary group and then intimidate witnesses.
UK authorities arrested 13 members of an international organized crime group accused of importing 50 tonnes of drugs worth billions of pounds from the Netherlands over a period of 18 months, the National Crime Agency announced Wednesday.