Cambodian PM Vows to Shoot Loggers From Helicopters, Again
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen promised on Sunday that he would fix his country’s problems with rampant deforestation by shooting those who illegally chop down timber from helicopters.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen promised on Sunday that he would fix his country’s problems with rampant deforestation by shooting those who illegally chop down timber from helicopters.
Serbia’s prosecutor requested the maximum possible sentence for the Balkan “Cocaine King” Darko Saric and his associates on Friday for allegedly smuggling tons of cocaine from South American countries to Europe.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says that he may indeed have authorized police forces to carry out thousands of extrajudicial murders in a bloody ‘war on drugs’ that Human Rights Watch has termed ‘crimes against humanity.’
A woman who allegedly ordered the brutal murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiance was among the suspects that were detained last week by Slovak police, local media reported on Monday.
Pakistan authorities arrested last week the CEO of the software company Axact for selling fake online academic degrees worth US$140 million to customers worldwide, Reuters reported.
South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, A.N.C., has seen a wave of intra-party killings motivated by money and political power, according to recent reporting by the New York Times. Those killed included A.N.C. members that had been outspoken against the party’s corruption.
Special courts in Iran sentenced on Sunday three people to death for financial crimes as part of a massive government crackdown on corruption, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Environmental crimes are now the biggest source of funding for non-state militias and terrorist organizations, bringing in 38 percent of their revenue, according to a new study released by Interpol and researchers on global organized crime.
A Mexican court Wednesday sentenced a former Mexico governor who once lead the embattled state of Veracruz to nine years in prison and fined him US$3,100 after he pleaded guilty to criminal association and money laundering charges, the Guardian reported.