After Mexico seized nearly nine tonnes of liquid methamphetamine hidden in tequila bottles this week, Brazil has now caught a French national smuggling eight kilograms of cocaine hidden in chocolate candies at Rio de Janeiro International Airport.
A court in the United Kingdom has found four additional members of an organized crime network guilty of transporting large amounts of cash in suitcases from the U.K. to Dubai. The group laundered over 104 million pounds (US$130.65 million) in just a year.
Russia’s lawmakers further tightened the country’s Criminal Code, introducing even harsher punishments for the remaining Kremlin critics who have either not managed or not wanted to leave the country after it slid further into an autocracy following the invasion of Ukraine in February last year.
Authorities across Europe detained 15 suspects believed to be members of two separate criminal groups involved in the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation - one operating between the United Kingdom and Bulgaria, and the other in Romania and Ireland.
The European Union imposed this week sanctions on 25 individuals and eight companies for supporting the regime of Syria's Bashar al-Assad.
More than 14 months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the unprecedented response it triggered from the West, law firms in Cyprus may still be offering services to sanctioned oligarchs and now fear they will themselves be targeted by sanctions.
A district court in Bishkek upheld on Thursday the request of Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Culture to shut down the Kyrgyz branch of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Azattyk. The dispute erupted over a video the government did not like.
Czech, Finnish, and Hungarian authorities have dismantled a criminal network suspected of recruiting victims, mostly Czechs, for sexual exploitation in Finland and other Scandinavian countries.
A U.S. court charged a China-based representative of North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank with two counts related to laundering illicit crypto proceeds for the benefit of the North Korean nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program, according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
A New York lawyer pleaded guilty Tuesday to his role in a multi-million dollar money laundering scheme, engineered to benefit his client, a sanctioned Russian oligarch.