A Telegram channel began publishing the private Facebook messages and photos of Azerbaijani opposition activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev on Friday, a week after he announced he would no longer drink water as part of his ongoing hunger strike in protest against his detention.
When a journalist asked the Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s office in January if any investigations had been launched after an insider revealed that Credit Suisse was servicing some of the world’s shadiest characters, the office first reached out to the bank for advice on how to frame its answer.
Though they once boasted one of the world’s most robust environments for organized crime since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the criminal ecosystem in Russia and Ukraine has fractured since Russian president Vladimir Putin’s launched his invasion one year ago, according to a new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).
The U.S. State Department has approved the extradition of former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo who is in his home country suspected of bribery linked to a corruption scandal involving Brazilian-based construction company Odebrecht S.A., Peru’s attorney general’s office said on Tuesday.
Law enforcement in Bosnia and Herzegovina detained 11 people suspected of “organized crime, illegal trade, and money laundering” in connection with the sale of fraudulent university diplomas that were not based on genuine study.
The Southwark Crown Court in London sentenced three former bankers for stealing a total of US$8.45 million from a fund belonging to the people of Libya they were entrusted to manage.
Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, which enters its second year, has so far claimed the lives of over 8,000 Ukrainian people, including nearly a dozen journalists.
A U.S. federal court found Mexico’s former secretary of public security and the country’s top cop in its fight against organized crime guilty of accepting millions in bribes from the very cartels he was tasked with dismantling.
India’s largest news agency, Asian News International (ANI), routinely bases its articles on information from dubious think tanks and authors who appear to not exist, according to a report released today by the Brussels-based non-profit EU DisinfoLab.
Brazilian authorities have clamped down on a network that “laundered” tonnes of illegally extracted gold from the Amazon region using fake invoices and then sending it to New York, Dubai and elsewhere, Brazil’s Federal Police said.