Australian police on Thursday charged six individuals linked to a multi-billion dollar transnational drug syndicate, with reported seizures from three busts alone totaling AUD$1.7 billion (US$1.17 billion) in methamphetamine.

United Kingdom authorities agreed to take a crucial step in cracking down on affluent elites’ exploitation of the legal system in order to silence investigative journalists and campaigners.

Police in Papua New Guinea have launched an investigation into allegations of corruption against former executives of the country’s ports company after a joint investigation by OCCRP and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

Microsoft Corporation has agreed to pay a US$20 million civil penalty as part of a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for violating children’s online privacy using Microsoft’s Xbox Live service.

A man tied to the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme pleaded guilty Tuesday to money laundering and wire fraud, tying up one of the 47 cases that defrauded America’s hungry children of US$250 million during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Switzerland-based multinational investment bank and financial services company UBS announced on Monday that it has finalized the acquisition of failing Credit Suisse bank, a deal agreed to nearly three months ago.

Federal prosecutors in Fresno said Monday that two individuals connected to California gangs have been sentenced to years in prison related to charges of drug sales and unlawful possession of an automatic weapon.

Aside from losing over 1.13 million people to COVID-19, the United States is thought to have lost billions of dollars in pandemic relief fund fraud, according to the most recent Associated Press analysis, published on Monday.

Around 120 activists, journalists and leaders of civil society organizations signed a petition Friday demanding that Kyrgyz authorities dismiss a draft law closely modeled on Russia's controversial foreign agent law. Six members of Parliament have asked for their names to be taken off the draft law.

In a joint operation, Spanish and Danish authorities have arrested five individuals, members and aspiring members of a criminal organization linked to the motorbike gang Hell’s Angels for drug trafficking.