Police in Spain have launched a major operation against Armenian organized crime on Tuesday, saying they expect to detain as many as 100 suspects across Spain, EFE reported.

Brazilian radio journalist Jairo Sousa, who frequently reported on corruption and organized crime, was shot dead early Thursday morning as he arrived to work at Radio Perola in the northern Para state, local police reported.

Two UK and US hedge funds accuse one of India’s largest real estate developers of defrauding foreign investors out of some US$1.5 billion in a conspiracy involving shadow companies, document dumps, and “astonishing theft,” Bloomberg reported Monday.

Two United States lawmakers called on President Trump’s administration to sanction Russian billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov and start an investigation into his corrupt business activities, Radio Free Europe reported Friday.

Italy plans to crack down on the production and sale of counterfeit shoes, bags, clothes and other items in and around the country’s beaches, which provide up to US$26 billion in annual turnover for organized criminal groups, The Local reported Monday.

Belgian Minister of Finance Johan Van Overtveldt asked the country’s Special Tax Inspectorate to look into the role ING Bank played in setting up offshores for wealthy Russian clients.

A former mob boss and relic of the bygone age of Boston organized crime was convicted on Friday of the 1993 murder of a nightclub owner.

A homeless couple in Belgium is on trial for money laundering after sharing some US$ 350,000 they found while squatting in an abandoned building, the Guardian reported Wednesday.

State prosecutors said on Thursday that Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was charged with fraud for spending US$100,000 on outside caterers in the couple’s official residence, Reuters reported.

Two members of a sprawling and violent criminal enterprise, including one crowned “Thief-in-Law,” were convicted of racketeering and several related charges in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday.