The Taliban ban on digital currency has brought Afghanistan’s cryptocurrency market, which experienced a massive expansion after the insurgent group took over the country in August last year, to a standstill – says a new study by Chainanalysis.

The fight against foreign bribery is weakening among the world’s largest exporters, reaching a record low since Transparency International began tracking it in 2009. Only two countries are actively challenging it.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Bangladesh government to stop the widespread crackdown on and the fake charges against the opposition as the country is preparing for general elections in 2023.

The Cypriot government decided on Wednesday to start the process of stripping its citizenship from 10 individuals who obtained it under the country’s discontinued ‘citizenship by investment program’, according to a press statement by the Government Spokesperson Niovis Parisinou.

A British businessman was arrested on U.S. charges of conspiring to evade sanctions imposed on a Russian oligarch, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said on Tuesday.

A federal court in California sentenced a Mexican lawyer who served as the Sinaloa cartel’s chief money launder to 15 years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in a statement.

For a few tense hours last week, Thai Senator Upakit Pachariyangkun was wanted for arrest in connection with an alleged drug trafficking and money laundering ring operating out of a casino in the Golden Triangle.

A Romanian businessman was indicted Monday for defrauding an EU-funded medical research center of more than three million euro (US$2.9 million) with the help of an accomplice who represented the company mandated with providing the center its equipment, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) announced Monday.

The U.S. Treasury imposed on Tuesday sanctions on three Burmese businessmen and their company for allegedly supplying Russian-produced arms to Myanmar's military, which seized power following last year’s coup.

U.K. and Spanish authorities said they have dismantled an Albanian organized crime group involved in smuggling people to the U.K. via Spain, and warned that organized immigration crime is evolving.