Police in Bangladesh have arrested a 23-year-old man after he described to reporters from Deutsche Welle how he was tortured by the country’s notorious counter-terrorism force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), after being accused of illegal alcohol possession.

A U.S. court charged ten people on Wednesday in connection with a massive scheme to defraud Polar Air Cargo Worldwide, a leading cargo airline, of tens of millions of dollars in revenue and the honest services of its employees.

Targeted killings and professional hitmen are in high demand in South Africa, according to a Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) report, which examines how violence has festered as a monetizable commodity over the past two decades.

Experts say they have discovered new spyware similar to the infamous Pegasus, which was found two years ago to have been used by various governments to spy on journalists, activists, and political opposition.

Coordinated action by Belgium and Spanish authorities has disrupted a large-scale criminal network which laundered at least US$199 million of cocaine proceeds through cryptocurrency and luxurious real estate purchases, Europol said on Thursday.

Italian prosecutors charged five individuals with providing illegal financial services, including a London-based financial consultant whom OCCRP last week tied to the sham Spanish banking outfit Bandenia, which allegedly laundered money for criminal clients.

The U.K. and U.S. governments sanctioned Wednesday several “financial fixers” of sanctioned Russian oligarchs, including Roman Abramovich and Alisher Usmanov, whose efforts to launder hundreds of millions of dollars have been intensely scrutinized since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last February.

Both a suspected member of a criminal group as well as Bulgaria State Prosecutor’s Office have launched attacks against investigative journalists who exposed how a suspected drug dealer had bribed police officials and how he was controlling the import of food at a border crossing.

Cyberware criminals, drug traffickers, and even hostile state actors can abuse decentralized finance services (DeFi) to transfer and launder their ill-gotten gains through the U.S. without allerting financial authorities, the U.S. Department of the Treasury warned in its latest assessment.

A U.S. court has sentenced five people to prison and ordered them to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution for their involvement in a massive biofuel tax fraud that deprived the government funds of US$1 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.