European officials have discovered illegal tiger farms operating in the Czech Republic and experts suspect other countries also house such facilities, thousands of miles away from where they had previously only thought they existed, the Guardian reported Monday.
Six people were killed and at least five wounded when anti-corruption protesters clashed with police on Sunday over the lack of a trial for the alleged misuse of US$3.8 billion in public funds Haiti received from Venezuela, Al Jazeera reported.
Sophisticated Albanian gangs are linked to the upsurge of trafficking victims in the United Kingdom, most of whom are brought from Albania and passed around Europe as commodities through expansive criminal networks, Sky News reported Monday.
An Englishman who tried to smuggle some US$322,000 worth of an unlicensed “wonder drug” containing human blood is facing jail time, Court News UK reported Wednesday.
Sextortion — a scam in which hackers claim to compromise a user’s computer, record them watching pornography via their webcam, and threaten to release the video online if the victim does not meet their demands — has been linked to the Bitcoin money laundering site Bitblender.io.
A month after her arrest, the wife of a former Malaysian prime minister has been charged with public procurement corruption on Thursday.
Apple announced that it will begin helping human trafficking survivors get jobs at its stores, the Thomson Reuters Foundation reported Thursday.
The European Commission announced this week it will cut its financial assistance to Moldova by US$22.7 million per year for both 2017 and 2018 due to concerns over the erosion of the rule of law and the weakening of democracy in the Eastern European nation.
A month-long, world-wide law enforcement operation aimed at investigating maritime pollution found 500 offences, including illegal discharges of oil and garbage from ships, violations of ship emissions rules, as well as river pollution and runoffs from land to sea, an Interpol statement said on Tuesday.