The Azerbaijan Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by Afgan Mukhtarli, the journalist who disappeared from a Tbilisi street in May of 2017 and reappeared two days later in a Baku courtroom.

The UK joined Finland, Sweden, Ireland, and UNICEF this week in suspending all social welfare aid to Zambia after allegations of widespread fraud and corruption surfaced.

Thomas F. Borgen, CEO of Danske Bank, has Wednesday informed the Board of Directors that he is resigning over findings that that one of the bank’s branches was used for money-laundering purposes.

A court convicted a Rhode Island woman for her participation in a Jamaican lottery fraud scheme, which has affected about 100 identified victims with reported losses totaling more than US$6.7 million, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday.

A man alleged to have participated in a human trafficking operation that saw minors from Guatemala transported to Ohio and forced into labor on an egg farm pled guilty to his ties with the operation on Monday.

The former New England Mafia boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme and his accomplice received life sentences for the 1993 murder of a nightclub owner and federal witness, Steven DiSarro, the Department of Justice said on Thursday.

Twenty-five years after the mafia murdered a Italian priest who challenged their hold in Palermo, Pope Francis called on the city’s mafiosi to repent of their murderous ways.

Private schools in the UK have been urged to make sure wealthy parents are not using laundered money to pay for their children’s education, The Financial Times reported.

In an effort to combat a practice called “fish laundering,” the European Union and Sweden pledged US$52 million in the beginning of September to various marine agencies in the Pacific who are supposed to monitor and crack down on fraudsters.

Two OCCRP journalists were detained by armed Bulgarian police for more than seven hours on Thursday night after they followed a tip that crucial documents were being burned in a field 50 kilometers southwest of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.