A blockchain bridge linked to Binance, the world’s biggest crypto exchange, was hit by a US$570 million hack last week that drained at least $100 million, the company said.

Brazilian police raided 20 locations throughout the country and seized cash and luxury items from a suspected leader of a transnational cryptocurrency fraud ring that is believed to have stolen nearly US$800 million from investors.

The U.K. branch of the global anti-graft watchdog Transparency International warned on Monday that more than one in ten of all Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) ever registered in Britain bear the “hallmarks of shell companies used for serious financial crimes.”

A Russian businessman whose affairs were the subject of a recent OCCRP investigation was shot and badly injured in a parking lot in a small town in Quebec, Canada, on Friday afternoon.

Spanish police arrested 16 people Thursday connected to the theft of 58 tonnes of copper cable on behalf of a larger criminal organization.

Authorities arrested three out of 13 suspects of Tuesday’s armed attack on a gold convoy in southern Zimbabwe, in which 11.6 kilograms of gold worth US$650,000 were stolen, the Zimbabwe Republic Police said in a press statement.

A federal court in Brooklyn sentenced a mobster to 40 years behind bars for killing his long-time friend he had fallen out with, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday. Both men were linked to New York’s infamous Gambino Family.

Criminals have laundered at least US$4 billion-worth of illicit crypto proceeds using cross-chain technologies since 2020, new research by blockchain analysis firm Elliptic reveals.

Belarus has closed down a medical clinic after journalists revealed the facility’s owners had high-level connections to the autocratic regime of President Aleksander Lukashenko, and had likely received preferential treatment from the government.

In what has been described as the single largest seizure of rhino horn in Singapore’s history, authorities at Changi Airport seized 34 kilograms, or around 20 rhinoceros horns, smuggled in two bags that were on their way to Laos from South Africa, Singapore’s National Parks Board said in a statement, Wednesday.