The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned last week a Slovakian national for his attempts to facilitate arms deals between Russia and North Korea, as the Kremlin seeks to maintain its supply of weapons and munitions to its frontline troops in Ukraine.

Continuing to suppress women’s rights in Afghanistan, the Taliban have arrested a prominent campaigner for girls’ education, accusing him of “suspicious activities.”

After having tried for over five years to forfeit profits that were obtained through corruption in the Nigerian oil industry and laundered in the U.S, the Department of Justice said this week that it has recovered over US$53 million with another $16 million still to come.

European authorities busted a complicated tax evasion network in Belgium that involved Chinese exporters suspected of putting in place a complex system of evading VAT and customs on imported products aimed for the European Union’s market.

Russia’s main security agency said Thursday it detained a reporter for The Wall Street Journal on suspicion of espionage in the interests of the U.S. government. It’s the first time since the Cold War a U.S journalist has been taken into custody under allegations of espionage in Russia.

A Swiss court Thursday found four bankers from Gazprombank’s Zurich branch guilty of failing to conduct proper due diligence checks into their clients’ source of income, specifically into how the infamous Russian musician Sergei Roldugin, widely known as one of “Putin’s wallets,” has made his money.

Clyde Mbisi, a Swazi traditional leader who faced charges related to rhino poaching and was to appear in court in April, was shot dead by unknown attackers, said a statement by the South African Police Service.

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee determined Wednesday that Credit Suisse violated its 2014 plea deal, following revelations that the Swiss bank facilitated acts of tax evasion for several of its wealthy clientele in the range of hundreds of millions of dollars.

The U.K. and U.S. announced on Tuesday new sanctions against individuals involved in Syria’s illicit captagon trade from which the Assad regime is profiting.

A grand jury in the United States has indicted 27 people for drug trafficking, many of whom have links to the “Aryan Family,” a white supremacist prison gang, the Office of the Attorney General said on Monday.