Croatia Catches Wanted Italian Mafia Drug Dealer
Police arrested in Zagreb a former member of a mafia group who was convicted for drugs trafficking in Italy, Croatian authorities said in a statement on Wednesday.
Police arrested in Zagreb a former member of a mafia group who was convicted for drugs trafficking in Italy, Croatian authorities said in a statement on Wednesday.
Italian tax police confiscated real estate, cars and company shares worth 2.8 million euros (US$3.2 million) belonging to a man allegedly heading a “fierce criminal organization,” according to a police statement released Thursday.
During a New Year’s Eve operation, Algerian authorities arrested 14 suspected smugglers and seized weapons from an illegal gold mining group, the country’s Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday.
A court in Islamabad found on Monday former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif guilty of corruption, sentenced him to to seven years in prison and fined him US$25 million.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation, OSCE, expressed on Saturday serious concern over Azerbaijan’s continuous harassment of investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova and called for the intimidations to end.
Sicilian police seized gas industry companies, real estate, cars and cash in Italy, Spain and Andorra as part of a crackdown on money laundering operations by the infamous Corleonesi mafia clan, Palermo prosecutors said Friday.
West Africa is facing increased trafficking in opioids, cocaine and methamphetamine, the profits of which often go to armed terrorist groups, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported Wednesday.
Officers from 11 South and Central American countries worked together to arrest 49 alleged people smugglers, Interpol announced Tuesday.
A United States judge ordered a convicted sex trafficker to pay his teenage victim nearly half a million dollars—the largest sum ever decreed under the district’s trafficking restitution statute.
Police in Spain recovered hundreds of looted archaeological items, including a prehistoric ax mold and a medieval seal, that were stolen from sites in the Tietar Valley more than three decades ago, authorities announced Wednesday.