Canada stands poised to seize US$26 million in assets from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and distribute the funds towards reconstruction efforts in Ukraine, the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly said Monday.
Targeting the global trade of illicit pharmaceuticals, European customs authorities have seized over 40 million EUR (US$42.5 million) worth of fake and misused pharmaceuticals, doping products, illegal hormonal and sport supplements, forged COVID vaccines and medicines for erectile dysfunction, Europol announced on Monday.
Facebook’s parent company Meta said that it removed a number of spyware firms this year, including in China, Russia, Israel, the United States and India, which targeted people in almost 200 countries and territories.
Russia evacuated from the Central African Republic a diplomat who was severely injured in an assassination attempt that has been interpreted as part of a power struggle between Russia and France over influence in Africa.
A court in Kazakhstan decided on Tuesday to keep one of the country’s best known investigative reporters in custody for two months and investigate allegations against him which he and his supporters believe to have been fabricated in revenge over articles he wrote.
“I’m the boss of the pyramid scammers, right?” the Brazilian ‘Bitcoin Sheik’ boasted in a private video released to media by investigators.
Being a journalist has never been more dangerous, according to the most recent Reporters Without Borders (RSF) annual round-up of violence and abuses against journalists, which says that “a record total of 533 journalists are currently detained worldwide.”
When Viktor Bout was at the top of his game, he was the biggest arms dealer in the world, operating an air freight empire supplying everything from flowers to combat helicopters.
Spanish police on Wednesday arrested a key figure in a massive investment fraud network exposed by OCCRP that has defrauded victims around the world of billions of dollars.
A Kurdish journalist in the southeast of Turkey was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly spreading false information, constituting a Turkish court’s first application of its new “disinformation” law.