French authorities raided five banks across Paris’ finance center on Tuesday, in an attempt to uncover evidence of a multi-billion euro tax fraud scheme dubbed “CumCum”.

An on-the-spot check at borders, import, processing, blending, and packaging locations in the European Union showed that half of the honey sold there could be adulterated, the EU warned. Most of the suspicious consignments come from China.

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets (OFA) said it sanctioned two individuals and six entities for supplying Myanmar’s military junta with jet fuel and military equipment as the military’s brutal campaign against civilians intensifies.

A London court found a Nigerian senator, his wife, and a doctor guilty of conspiring to arrange for a man from Nigeria to travel to London to have his kidney removed and donated to the couple’s daughter, the United Kingdom prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned 13 Belarusian individuals and entities, including President Alexander Lukashenko’s aircraft, in response to his administration’s fraudulent actions during the country’s 2020 presidential election.

The U.S. is a magnet for the world’s dirty money, financial crime experts say, as they weigh in on how vulnerabilities in America’s anti-money laundering laws counter the country’s efforts to aid Ukraine in its defense against the Russian invasion.

Federal regulators said Lindsay Lohan, Akon, recording artists Ne-Yo, and Lil Yachty, boxer and internet personality Jake Paul, and pornstar Kendra Lust, agreed to pay more than US$400,000 to settle charges that they failed to disclose payments they received from a diplomat for promoting cryptocurrencies on social media.

Google briefly removed from its search engine an IrpiMedia article about a company that can be hired to “clean up” a client’s online reputation, notifying the investigative outlet and OCCRP member center that the text violated Europe’s privacy law, known as General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR.

The National Assembly of Republika Srpska (RS), one of two Bosnia and Herzegovina’s semi-autonomous regions, passed Thursday a draft law that introduces defamation and insult into the RS Criminal Code.

A federal court in Boston sentenced Ghana-born Kofi Osei to 54 months in prison for helping steal millions of dollars from hundreds of victims who were trustfully seeking companionship on online dating sites, said a press release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.