The United Arab Emirates are at war with drug traffickers as authorities have seized an unprecedented amount of narcotics and addicts are becoming younger, The National reported Tuesday.

Cash, jewelry, purses, watches, and other items worth US$273 million were seized from properties connected to former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, the Royal Malaysian Police confirmed Tuesday.

British Columbia is going to crack down on large-scale transnational money laundering in its casinos that is tied to the opioid trade.

The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upheld the two-year prison sentence of an anti-corruption blogger who was convicted of libel after alleging police officers beat him and demanded he stop his anti-corruption advocacy, Radio Free Europe reported earlier this week.

The chairman of Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) revealed on Monday that the anti-graft watchdog’s headquarters in Islamabad received bomb threats, local media reported.

Following stronger enforcement of laws aimed at combating Japanese organized crime groups, some members of Japan’s Yakuza have resorted to stealing watermelons for income, Japan Today reported Tuesday.

Law enforcement arrested more than 141 individuals across more than 226 airports last week for traveling with criminally acquired airline tickets, Europol reported Tuesday.

Companies that register in Delaware might soon have to identify their owners, as the state is backing federal legislation after a decade of resistance, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

The EU is split over whether to start membership talks with Albania and Macedonia as some members seek to greenlight the process while France and The Netherlands want to see the two countries do more about fighting organized crime and corruption before they make the next step on their EU path, Reuters reported Monday.

Organized crime groups are running a criminal system out of prisons in Venezuela and the Maduro administration has only bolstered their power, InSight Crime reported Monday.