Nigerian anti-crime authorities announced Wednesday they had deactivated two illegal refining sites containing two ovens, two dug-out pits, and three storage units filled with large amounts of stolen crude oil in the Konsho area of Akassa, Bayelsa State.
The RISE Project, OCCRP’s Romanian partner, has been under pressure from judicial authorities following a series of investigative stories about migrant trafficking networks in western Romania, which are allegedly linked to ghost companies and high-ranking law enforcement officials.
A Russian national was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for smuggling American military technology into Russia, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said.
A senator with Paraguay’s ruling party will stand trial on accusations of laundering money for an organized crime group, and providing an aircraft to cocaine smugglers, prosecutors announced Thursday.
Macharia Gaitho, a veteran Kenyan journalist, is still confused by his abduction. After men in a white car followed him from his house in Nairobi, and then tried to pull him out of his vehicle, he went to the police station to report it.
Indian authorities announced Wednesday a crackdown on four suspects involved in a massive human trafficking and cyber fraud case across Laos and other Southeast Asian countries.
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tuesday three Mexican accountants implicated in a timeshare fraud scheme run by one of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels.
In two separate operations on Wednesday, Bosnian authorities arrested four individuals suspected of orchestrating organized crime activity, including the smuggling of over a hundred migrants.
Spanish authorities dismantled a pedophile ring Tuesday, arresting 24 people including an individual that personally groomed minors via instant messaging.
Nigerian authorities announced Sunday that they had seized large quantities of cocaine, opioids, and other illicit drugs concealed in the soles of shoes destined for the United States, United Kingdom, and Cyprus.