Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who was last month murdered in the Amazon along with British journalist Dom Phillips, had found out that municipal officials were involved in illegal fishing and poaching on protected Indigenous land in the Amazon, Brazilian journalists say they were told by sources.

An anonymous hacker has claimed to have obtained the personal information of a billion Chinese citizens, allegedly stolen from the Shanghai police, in what could be the biggest data breach in history if true.

Spanish authorities shut down Sunday a large-scale, clandestine tobacco operation that had the necessary infrastructure to illegally produce just under fifty million cigarettes per month.

In another blow to criminal groups involved in baby eel trafficking, European security forces said they arrested 49 suspects and seized more than one tonne of eels worth nearly US$2 million.

The Sahel, the arid plains of North Africa wedged between the Sahara desert and the dense jungles farther south, has long been a lucrative highway for people smugglers who shuttle millions of migrants through Niger and into Algeria or Libya on their way to Europe, in what were often harrowing journeys.

One of the world’s major audit firms admitted its auditors had cheated on exams and agreed to settle the affair with U.S. authorities for US$100 million.

In an operation finalized last week, German, Dutch and Belgian authorities have last week arrested 13 gang members who have stolen over 1.6 million euros (US$1.7 million) after bombing several cashpoints across Germany.

Press freedom advocates have urged India to immediately release a prominent Muslim journalist and outspoken critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over tweets for which authorities claim are promoting religious and ethnic division.

Nigeria’s Customs Service seized 2,820 donkey skins worth US$116,000, which were to be smuggled out of the country – announced Joseph Attah, comptroller of customs, in a media briefing on Friday.

An Israeli court sentenced Yitzhak “Itzik” Abergil, the don of the so-called Abergil crime family in Tel Aviv, to three life times and another 15 years in prison for drug trafficking and murder.