Dallas News: UN Underestimates Central American Smuggling Profits
Estimates of the amounts of money smugglers make from trafficking people into the US are way below their actual revenue, Dallas News reported on Monday.
Estimates of the amounts of money smugglers make from trafficking people into the US are way below their actual revenue, Dallas News reported on Monday.
The European Parliament’s Committee of Economic and Monetary Affairs decided on Monday that investment firms will from now on have to make sure they inform their clients about the risks of their projects infringing upon human rights, endangering the environment, or similar violations.
Huang Qi, an activist billed as China’s first “cyber dissident” who has been imprisoned for two years, is in danger of dying in police custody if he does not receive immediate medical treatment, human rights groups said in a statement released Monday.
Monaco detained on Tuesday a Russian businessman for his alleged role in a billion-dollar art fraud case that lead to the resignation and arrest of Monaco justice minister Philippe Narmino, Le Monde reported.
In a recent interview, a Lesotho-based Chinese businessman who also serves as the prime minister’s trade adviser on Asia divulged the deep extent of his ties to Lesotho’s political elite, raising concerns that he may be advancing the interests of the Chinese community at the expense of indigenous people, the Daily Maverick reported last week.
A hitman hired by Dublin’s Kinahan cartel was paid €130,000 (US$148,161) to murder members of the rivaling Hutch gang, with which the Kinahans have been at war since 2015, the Irish Sun reported Monday.
The European Central Bank withdrew the banking licence of Pilatus Bank in Malta, the country’s financial authority reported on Monday. The bank is at the heart of several investigations including money laundering and fraud.
Romania’s influential politician Liviu Dragnea on Monday mocked investigative journalists who announced they are in possession of a suitcase of evidence allegedly proving Dragnea is linked to a company suspected of corruption and EU funds fraud.
Argentinian authorities are making headway in a massive corruption case against ex-president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, arresting late last month four individuals whose trails lead to a US$65 million property empire including luxury condos, pharmacies, and banks scattered across South Florida and New York City, the Miami Herald reported Sunday.
Ukrainian anti-corruption activist Kateryna Gandziuk died on Sunday in a Kyiv hospital, three months after being attacked with acid, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported. The cause of death was supposedly a blood clot, according to local media.