In a multi-country crackdown on illegal wildlife and timber trade, police around the world identified nearly 1,000 suspects in a month-long operation and seized thousands of live animals, animal parts, bushmeat, timber and derivatives such as clothing, beauty products, food items, traditional medicines and handicrafts.

The Swiss commodity trading and mining giant Glencore will pay US$180 million to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after reaching an agreement with Congolese authorities on allegations of corruption between 2007 and 2018.

A human rights group in Spain says Chinese authorities have set up more than 100 police stations overseas to monitor, harass and in some cases force its nationals abroad, especially dissidents, to return home.

More than 17.5 million euros (US$18.39 million) have been confiscated from “money mules” and nearly 2,500 suspects have been arrested in a worldwide three-month action involving law enforcement from 25 countries.

A Russian oligarch, identified by Russian state media as Mikhail Fridman, was arrested last week by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) at his multi-million-pound London residence on money laundering charges.

Airbus and French financial prosecutors  last week settled a bribery case in Libya and Kazakhstan, with the aerospace corporation agreeing to pay a fine of €15.9 million ($16.5 million).

Increasingly complex money laundering networks play a vital role in sustaining the synthetic opioid trade, which is linked to tens of thousands of deaths globally each year. A new report says authorities are not doing enough to fight back.

Australia’s parliament Tuesday established the country’s first national investigative body to tackle corruption after years of debate over the need for an independent watchdog for politicians.

The water company for England’s second largest region was fined by the British government Thursday for a 2018 treatment plant failure that let roughly four million liters of sewage spill into a nearby river.

Investigative journalists on Wednesday filed suit against the Israel-based surveillance company NSO Group in a U.S. court for allegedly designing and deploying the spyware Pegasus to infiltrate the phones of at least 22 members of El Faro, a leading source of independent news in Central America and a partner organization of the OCCRP.