Credit Suisse agreed to pay France 238 million euro (US$234 million) to settle a criminal probe accusing the bank of facilitating tax fraud and money laundering. The deal brings an end to the latest blow to the Swiss bank’s legal woes.

In a historical ruling, Uganda’s Standards, Utilities and Wildlife Court sentenced a man to life in prison for illegal possession of two pieces of ivory on Thursday, the Uganda Wildlife Authority announced in a press statement.

Although the number of recorded victims of human trafficking in the Netherlands decreased by around 22% between 2020 and 2021, experts say this only means the victims are less visible and claim that now human traffickers are targeting Dutch people the most.

The U.S. sanctioned a network that sold military and sensitive dual-use technology from U.S. producers to Russian customers and raised charges against five Russians and two Venezuelans. Some of the items have been found in Russian equipment seized on Ukrainian battlefields.

About 300 people marched on Monday through Kyrgyzstan’s capital of Bishkek, demanding the release of activists who protested against a land swap with Uzbekistan in which Kyrgyzstan lost a man-made lake in return for land elsewhere along the undefined border, OCCRP member center Kloop reported.

Domestic Kitten, a mass mobile surveillance operation, has been targeting Iranian citizens using a new spyware strain masquerading as a translation app, according to new research from the cybersecurity firm ESET.

Financial Action Task Force (FATF) placed Myanmar on its blacklist for money laundering and terrorism financing alongside North Korea and Iran – the organization announced on Friday.

One of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest friends used the services of at least four U.K. and U.S. law firms to challenge international sanctions against him, the Intercept news organization revealed Wednesday in its latest investigation.

Anglian Water, a U.K. water company, was fined £871,000 (US$976,200) Wednesday for its inability to prevent a series of sewage spills into the environment that noticeably harmed local marine life.

The European Parliament paid tribute to Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia on Thursday, nearly a week after the 5th anniversary of her assasination and after a court in Valletta sent her killers behind bars for decades.