Australian authorities arrested six players of an online video game who allegedly lost the matches on purpose, betting against themselves and bringing in up to AUD 30,000 (US$20,200), ABC reported Monday.

Aivar Rehe, the head of Danske Bank’s Estonian branch, was found dead on Wednesday after he went missing Monday evening from his home in Tallinn, the national ERR TV reported citing Estonia’s Police.

A Russian hacker pleaded guilty before the US District Court in Manhattan on Monday, admitting “one of the largest thefts of customer data from a US financial institution in history,” Geoffrey S. Berman, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced.

France's largest pharmaceutical company went on trial Monday on suspicion that their weight-loss drug has caused up to 2,000 deaths and lifelong consequences for many other patients, the Guardian reported.

French and Bulgarian law enforcement busted last week a labor trafficking and money laundering group, that had lured over 160 Bulgarians to France with promises of good earnings but then made them work for just food, according to a Tuesday press release from Europol.

Georgian authorities arrested last week several members of a child-trafficking crime group, accusing them of illegal production and distribution of child sexual exploitation material.

Efforts to decrease rhino poaching in South Africa have found recent success, as fewer rhinos have been killed this year than in 2018, according to a statement from the Department of Environmental Affairs.

Croatian movie director Dario Jurican announced last week that he has officially changed his name to Milan Bandic - the name of the current mayor of the country’s capital of Zagreb - and that he will run for presidential at elections in December, Croatian News Agency HINA reported.

An Azerbaijani reporter serving a six-year sentence for illegally carrying cash over the border entered a hunger strike on Sunday in protest over how prison staff was treating his lawyer, an activist reported.

Dutch police are searching for the killer of a lawyer who was representing a key witness in a major organized crime case and whose murder has rasied concerns that The Netherlands was becoming a “narco-state.”