Peruvian police have dismantled a cell of the Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua and arrested 61 of its members who were reportedly involved in extortion and loan sharking, including the collection of fees from prostitutes working in various parts of Peru’s capital.

U.S. officials have unveiled two criminal complaints against 44 individuals, alleging they committed offenses related to China's efforts to harass Chinese nationals in the New York metropolitan region and elsewhere in the United States. Two people were arrested for running a Chinese police station in Lower Manhattan.

As a consequence of illegal trafficking, several great ape species now find themselves in decline and past the threshold of being critically endangered, according to a Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) report.

In a massive coordinated effort led by Interpol, police in Central and South America arrested 14,260 people and seized 8,263 illegal firearms and 305,000 rounds of ammunition in what is being described by the international police agency as the biggest firearms operation ever.

Four high-standing Armenian nationals were found to have engaged in under the table real estate transactions in Dubai in order to hide their wealth, Hetq reported Monday.

Estonian authorities charged on Monday six former officials at Danske Bank’s Estonian division for their alleged role in one of the biggest money-laundering scandals in history, which broke out in 2017 and is now being brought to a close.

The Moscow City Court has delivered the highest sentence possible to Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian journalist, opposition politician, human rights activist, and one of the Kremlin’s most outspoken opponents, after finding him guilty of treason and spreading “fake news” about the Russian Army.

The U.S. Treasury and Department of Justice (DOJ) took action Friday against a number of leaders of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, including several of El Chapo’s children, as well as the cartel’s fentanyl suppliers from China and Guatemala.

Uganda’s Minister of Planning Amos Lugoloobi became on Monday the second government minister to be charged in relation to the theft of 14,500 metal roofing sheets that were supposed to be distributed to the poor but ended up in the hands of senior government officials. In this case, on the roof the minister’s goat shed.

Italian authorities said on Monday that they have fished out nearly two tonnes of cocaine packed in waterproof packages that were floating in the sea near the eastern coast of Sicily.